For more than 20 years, this leading guide to more than 300 colleges and universities has been an indispensable source of information for college-bound students and their parents. Hip, 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 U.S., plus Canada and Great Britain.
The Fiske Guide to Colleges 2009 is a tool to help you make the most intelligent educational investment you can. With The Fiske Guide to Colleges 2009, you'll get:
The #1 Bestselling College Guide
The guide that is most trusted by guidance counselors, students, and parents
A book packed with tips from current students about the ins and outs of their schools Fiske's exclusive academic, social, and quality-of-life ratings for each school
"I happen to prefer the Fiske Guide for its combination of compressive facts and figures and personal anecdotes and descriptions of each campus. They may take a bit longer to read than a quick reference guide, but each entry leaves you with an indelible impression of the academic and social life at the college in question."
- Excerpt from The Truth About Getting In, by Katherine Cohen, founder of IvyWise
The Fiske Guide to Colleges 2009 also includes:
Fiske's exclusive academic, social and quality-of-life ratings
The 40+ schools that deliver the best education at the most reasonable costs
Lists of each school's strongest majors and programs
Candid tips from each school's current students
A self-quiz to help understand which college is right for a student
Vital information on how to apply
"Overlap" listings to help students expand their options
Selectivity statistics and SAT and ACT ranges
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Customer Reviews:
Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0
Goes beyond the surface for a look inside colleges and universities:
Useful information for the prospective student that goes beyond the academic and tells what life is like at a given campus.
Not worth it:
This wasn't worth it - found out much more useful information elsewhere. The trouble is that so many colleges have specialized programs, and this just provides an overview. If you want to know who has the best program for your student, you have to do the homework yourself.
A Standard Guide to Colleges:
The "Fiske Guide to Colleges" is probably the best known college guide in the country. This is the guide you will want to buy when you would like to read descriptions of most of the colleges that you have probably heard of. Most of the colleges and universities that the average high school student would be interested in are included. One feature that will appeal to many high school students is the ratings of a college's academics, social life, and quality of life. The social life opportunities at a college... more info
good book.. but old school:
this is a good book, but i can't help but to think that the old school college guidebook is a little outdated in today's tech-savvy world. i'm looking for a searchable tool, somewhere where i can enter in specific criteria that i'm looking for in a college and subsequently find the perfect college for me. i'd realy suggest using a website such as www.campuscompare.com that incorporates the quantitative information available in such a guidebook with the student-reviews and digital media that reveals the... more info
