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Best 368 Colleges, 2009 Edition (College Admissions Guides) | 
 enlarge | Author: Princeton Review
Publisher: Princeton Review
Category: Book
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Pages: 832
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ISBN: 0375428720
Dewey Decimal Number: 378.73
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Product Description
College students (120,000 of them) reveal what life is really like at the nation's top schools. This must-have guide gives you college rankings like no other and covers all the essentials -- from academics to social life to financial aid, and everything in between. We also provide you with all the basics: admissions criteria, deadlines, phone numbers, e-mail addresses, and more.
The unique ranking lists in The Best 368 Colleges report the top 20 schools in 62 categories. Based on how students at the schools -- the real experts! -- rated their colleges, the ranking list titles include:
Professors Get High Marks
Best Career/Job Placement Services
Best Classroom Experience
Party Schools
Dorms Like Palaces
Best Campus Food
Most Politically Active Students
Diverse Student Population
Class Discussions Encouraged
Best College Newspaper
…and many more!
The Best 368 Colleges also includes lists of great schools for 15 of the most popular undergraduate majors.
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 4.5 stars..... Essential tool for HS seniors August 8, 2008
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
Let me state upfront that our family has completed the college search process, I will be taking my youngest off to college in about 2 weeks. But when I saw this at my local library, I couldn't resist picking this up. The Princetown Review publishes a number of college search-related books, including the "Complete Book of Colleges" and this one. This book is essentially a distilled version of the "Complete Book", and frankly a lot more useful (but for people new to the college process, definitely check that out too).
"The Best 368 Colleges (2009 Edition)" (809 pages) is very similar to last year's edition. After holding the number of best colleges steady at 366 last year, this time there are 4 new "best" colleges and 2 that didn't make the cut anymore. Those new colleges are City University of New York Baruch College, Nazareth College, Prescott College, and University of Alabama at Birmingham. There is a fun-to-browse 62 lists of best/worst, such as "Most Beautiful Campus", "Students Study the Most", "Party Schools", and "Most Politically Active Students" (my daughter will be going to the No.1 ranked school on that list).
The best feature of this guide remains the 2 page layout for each of the colleges, with in-depth information on campus life, academic selectivity (the number of applicants, how many were accepted, and of those how many actually decided to attend), tuition and room/board costs, etc. Another aspect that is very helpful is the "Survey says" sidebar, in which the essence of the university is distilled from the college students themselves, and "The Inside Word" segment on how tough it really is to gain admission.
The proof is in the pudding: of the many college guides out there, my daughter spent more time with last year's edition than with any other. This book is not the first place to start the college search, but once your son or daughter has narrowed down his/her colleges of choice, and assuming those colleges are featured in the "best 368", this book clearly is the best resource, the last step before a campus visit, and can be used again following the campus visits. If I was forced to recommend only one book among all the college search guides, this book is it.
 Same content different year August 8, 2008
0 out of 4 found this review helpful
I went to a major book store got the book and sat down to read a few reviews. The major negative on this book like US News reviews, it is a book of college favorites. Princeton seems to think if a college has low acceptance scores, and the students have high SAT's and GPA's that's a good school, and the other 90% are not. The two page reviews of the 368 best colleges briefly cover the basics, and the frivolus "best of" category could be left out in the front of the book. If the book went into depth on each college then it would have some merit.
A great indicator to grade a college would be how many professors of that school have published scholarly articles in journals, also how much money did that college invest in research projects. In addition, how many students from that college recently received prestigious awards such as the Goldwater and Fulbright scholarships. Many colleges such as Virginia Commonwealth University were not on the list of the 368 best colleges. However, VCU produced four Goldwater scholars in 2008. There were only eight colleges in the country that had four Goldwater scholars in 2008. In addition they had five Boren scholars in the last two years, and four Fulbright scholars in the past three years. VCU is doing it's job to nurture the already exceptional students, and preparing them to compete for the most prestigious awards in the country. There are not any colleges in Virginia(Including UVA) that can say that.
The Princeton book of "the 368 best colleges" didn't do their homework, and fell short in producing a quality book that a student can use to evaluate their ultimate college choice for the next 4 to 8 years.
Great Resource... August 6, 2008
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
This is a good guide to use once you've narrowed down your college choices a little. Then you can read just about the ones you want to. I don't think I could make it through alphabetically but if you already have a fairly good idea which schools you are interested in, this book will help you narrow it down.
 Poor editing August 3, 2008
0 out of 3 found this review helpful
Who edited this book? There are so many typos/errors in it. For example, Colgate University has a description of its Academics and this uses the exact same description word for word for its Life description. Tulane University lists its Student/Faculty ratio as 9:2 instead of 9:1. In one of the beginning pages (p. 29), they mention that one of their 62 ranking lists is "Toughest to Get Into", yet there is no such list in the book. I have not read the entire book, of course, so the little I've seen has revealed these errors. I suspect there must be more. I have found this book to be very helpful in the past, but this edition must have missed the editing room.
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