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| |  | Music | Home » » Fiske Guide to Colleges 2010, 26E | | | | | | | Description: | | "The best college guide you can buy." —USA Today The #1 bestselling college guide, from the top name in college admissions! For more than 20 years, this leading guide to more than 330 colleges and universities has been an indispensable source of information for college-bound students and their parents. Hip, honest and straightforward, Fiske Guide to Colleges 2010 delivers an insider's look at the academic climates and the social and extracurricular scenes at the "best and most interesting" schools in the US, plus Canada and Great Britain. 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 students understand which college is right for them
- Vital information on how to apply
- "Overlap" listings to help students expand their options
FISKE: THE INDEPENDENT VOICE FOR STUDENTS AND PARENTS
Why do students, parents and high school counselors trust and recommend Edward B. Fiske and the Fiske Guide to Colleges more than any other guide? Quite simply, they're fiercely independent: - An author in touch: The incredible write-ups for more than 330 schools come not from a corporation, but from the former education editor of the New York Times, one of the leading experts in college admissions.
- No hype from the colleges: The Fiske Guide accepts no consulting, advertising or other fees from colleges and has no outside consortium of colleges working on its behalf.
- Nothing to sell: There are no counseling, essay-writing, tutoring, consulting, or other services Fiske Guide is trying to sell; just great information about great schools.
(20090712) | | | Product Details: | | | Author:
| Edward Fiske | | Paperback:
| 816 pages | | Publisher:
| Sourcebooks | | Publication Date:
| July 21, 2009 | | Language:
| English | | ISBN:
| 1402209606 | | Package Length:
| 10.2 inches | | Package Width:
| 8.2 inches | | Package Height:
| 1.7 inches | | Package Weight:
| 2.8 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 18 reviews |
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 Indispensable for narrowing choicesJul 21, 2010
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.
 Didn't meet expectationsJun 07, 2010
Overall we were disappointed. The book doesn't really have much depth to it. There must be something better out there, we randomally chose from the choices listed and guessed poorly I suppose.
Good Basic College Guide - RecommendedMay 18, 2010
We used the Fiske Guide to narrow down the engineering colleges my daughter. This guide offers the basic information about all of the colleges she was interested in and helped her get a list of the ones that had the programs (Bioengineering and Genetics) that interested her.
The guide is good starting place and it is easy to find the important information, but further research on the web will be needed for most students to make their final choices.
Recommended!
CFH
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Not really a complete guide to collegesFeb 02, 2010
while the book obviously covers all major colleges and universities, do not expect details on lesser known (even when quite large) ones. Separate entry on Eastern Carolina U. for example, even with 10K+ students? sorry, about one sentence on it as if it was exactly the same as NC State.
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Significant factual errorDec 17, 2009
I was enjoying the excerpts until I noted that the guide lists Cooper Union among the most costly colleges. In fact, although the stated annual tuition is $35,000, all 1,100 +/- students get a full scholarship. Of course, the cost of living in NY is not inconsiderable, but it is still quite a deal for a superb education, and the reason it is one of the most selective institutions in the country.
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