Fiske Guide to Colleges 2011, 27E
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Product Price: $23.99
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"The best college guide you can buy."
-USA Today
For more than 25 years, this leading guide to more than 310 colleges and universities-fully updated and expanded every year-has been an indispensable source of information for college-bound students and their parents. Helpful, honest, and straightforward, the Fiske Guide to Colleges delivers an insider's look at the academic climates and the social and extracurricular scenes at the "best and most interesting" schools in the United States, plus Canada and Great Britain.
In addition to the candid essays on each school, you will find:
- A self-quiz to help you understand what you are really looking for in a college
- Lists of the strongest majors and programs at each college
- Vital information on how to apply, including admissions and financial aid deadlines, required tests, and each school's essay questions
- "Overlap" listings to help you expand your options
- Selectivity statistics and SAT/ACT scores
- Indexes that break down schools by price and state
- A list of schools with strong programs for learning disabled students
- All the basics, including email addresses and university websites
Plus a special section highlighting the 5 public and private Best Buy schools-colleges that provide the best educational value
The guide the San Francisco Chronicle called "the bible."
(20100801)Reviews
Rating: 4 / 5
Date: 2010-08-27
Summary: "One of the better guides"
Some good info in the guide. Has more opinionated information than many of the other guides, which is good, though it tends to accentuate the positive side just a bit too much. The information about the school's "best majors" and the cross-over schools is very helpful. Would be nice if it had more detailed information that some of the other guides include. For example, it rates the schools with $ signs in terms of cost, but does not provide detailed cost information. But I suppose if you're really interested in a particular school you should be looking at their web side to get definitive cost data.
Rating: 5 / 5
Date: 2010-08-13
Summary: "Fiske Guide to Colleges"
Great to have a copy in the classroom for when students are finished with an assignment. It allows my sophomores, juniors, and seniors to research colleges when they complete an assignment and laptops are not available!
Rating: 4 / 5
Date: 2010-08-08
Summary: "Great tool!"
We got this book on a recommendation from a relative. It is a wonderful book to use, along with the internet, to discover colleges you have never heard of and weed out ones that aren't for you. This book has alot of information that you will not find on the net.
Rating: 5 / 5
Date: 2010-08-02
Summary: "Fiskes"
Definitely a good book to get to start your college search. Recommended by our college counselor & I agree, there is lots of good info to help put that list together
Rating: 4 / 5
Date: 2010-07-21
Summary: "Indispensable for narrowing choices"
I have done College Admissions Counseling for 28 years. The only book I require students
to have is this Fiske Guide. Using it, we are able to decide if a school is a stretch college or not.
Some of the percentages are higher than actual figures, but the 'guide' helps to compare colleges.