- Paperback: 816 pages
- Publisher: Sourcebooks, Incorporated; illustrated edition edition (Jan 18 2011)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1402208367
- ISBN-13: 978-1402208362
- Product Dimensions: 26.7 x 20.8 x 4.3 cm
- Shipping Weight: 1.4 Kg
- Average Customer Review: 1.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #655,616 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"Most readable and informative" of all college guides.
-USA Today
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.
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
- Indexes that break down schools by price and state
- A list of schools with strong programs for learning disabled students
- Percentage of students receiving need-based financial aid
... Plus all the basics, including email addresses and university websites
Edward B. Fiske served for 17 years as Education Editor of the New York Times, during which time he realized that college-bound students and their families needed better information on which to base their educational choices. He wrote the Fiske Guide to Colleges to help them. He is also the author, with Bruce G. Hammond, of the Fiske Guide to Getting into the Right College.
The 2008 edition is fully updated and based on new surveys of thousands of students and administrators. It's the perfect tool for anxious students and their parents.
Fiske Guide to Colleges: The guide the San Francisco Chronicle called "the bible."
-USA Today
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.
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
- Indexes that break down schools by price and state
- A list of schools with strong programs for learning disabled students
- Percentage of students receiving need-based financial aid
... Plus all the basics, including email addresses and university websites
Edward B. Fiske served for 17 years as Education Editor of the New York Times, during which time he realized that college-bound students and their families needed better information on which to base their educational choices. He wrote the Fiske Guide to Colleges to help them. He is also the author, with Bruce G. Hammond, of the Fiske Guide to Getting into the Right College.
The 2008 edition is fully updated and based on new surveys of thousands of students and administrators. It's the perfect tool for anxious students and their parents.
Fiske Guide to Colleges: The guide the San Francisco Chronicle called "the bible."
About the Author
Edward B. Fiske served for 17 years as education editor of the New York Times, where he realized that college-bound students and their families needed better information on which to base their educational choices. He is also the author of the Fiske Guide to Getting into the Right College. He lives in Durham, North Carolina.
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1.0 out of 5 stars
Light on the Canadian Content,
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This review is from: Fiske Guide to Colleges 2008 (Paperback)
Information may be useful but don't look to this guide for information on Canadian Universities. Only a tiny handful are represented. We were disappointed.
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4.2 out of 5 stars (31 customer reviews) 54 of 54 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars
A good (but flawed) resource after narrowing down the list,
By Paul Allaer - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Fiske Guide to Colleges 2008 (Paperback)
This is officially the last go-around for me as far as far as college searches are concerned. My youngest is entering her HS senior year in a few weeks, and so we are gathering up the latest and the greatest of college search books one more time."Fiske Guide to Colleges 2008" (756 pages) is a curious book in my opinion. It lists the "best and most interesting" colleges in the country, about 300 out of 2,200 four year colleges in the US are written up. According to the introduction, they were selected on the basis of academic quality, geographic diversity, a balance of public and private schools, and schools that are currently popular for certain programs (engineering and technical schools, religious emphasis, Sunbelt schools). Being from Ohio, I look at the list of schools that "made the cut" and in my opinion it is incomprehensible that a fine instituion like Xavier University was omitted. While the descriptions give a good flavor of a particular college, there are essentials missing, such as the exact tuition/room/board (there is only a general 1 to 4 star rating on how expensive a college is). Also not helpful in my opinion is that the colleges are presented alphbetically, rather than by state (although there is an index by state). When my daughter was simply looking to get basic information a good year or so ago, she did not spend a lot of time with the then 2006 version of this book. Now, hoever, as she has narrowed her choices, she is reading up more on her pool of colleges in this book. Bottom line: if you are at the very beginning of your college search, this is not the book to start with. This book is more helpful to get a second (or third) opinion once your child has narrowed down his/her selection of colleges of interest. 77 of 82 people found the following review helpful
2.0 out of 5 stars
A great read, a pointless investment,
By deepthinker - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Fiske Guide to Colleges 2007 (Paperback)
The Fiske Guide to Colleges is notorious for not changing its text much from year to year, but it should be known for other things as well.While at first I used it a great deal in my college search, the Guide's seemingly useful comparisons of schools are only superficial. If you use this guide a lot, you will see what I mean once you do the best thing possible for your college search, VISITING schools. Also, remember that you can get a great education at a lot of places, so the academic ratings are pretty much meaningless, not to mention completely based on the reputation of the schools--that's how you get comments about the teaching at Knox College being "out of this world," while Knox gets only a fairly good academic rating, while the Ivy League schools, full of teaching assistants and impersonal learning galore, all get 5 star academic ratings. (If you don't believe me, read Loren Pope's "Colleges That Change Lives.") Because there are so many quotes in the guide, people assume that it is accurate. However, the quotes are taken completely out of context, and the guide is so positive about every school that you should be cautious of using this guide. The problem with the Fiske guide--and in many people's eyes, its asset--is its readability and aforementioned positivity. The college portraits tell you little about what college life is actually like at these schools. No college is exactly like what the Fiske Guide portrays it as. The important thing is for you to find out for yourself what kind of college is right for you. I found it through reading "Colleges That Change Lives," which is the only college guide with a real intent to help students--students of all grade point averages, SAT scores, and so forth--find their respective best fits. So while the Fiske Guide may seem useful at first, if you use it, visit the schools and see what I mean. 20 of 20 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
definitely useful,
By Great Faulkner's Ghost - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Fiske Guide to Colleges 2008 (Paperback)
Fisk and Princeton Review are the two best college guidebooks for getting a feel for what it would be like to go to a college. Fisk seems to have more of an expert's view, as though it were written by a college counselor or perhaps your high school guidance counselor. The Fisk write ups are balanced and the factual information about the college seems to me to be more complete than that of Princeton Review. The Fisk write ups jibe well with my experience at the campuses as I have visited. The strength of the Princeton Review guide is that it is based largely on surveys given to students, and by getting information directly from students, it seems to convey more of an insiders feel for each school. The possible weakness of Princeton Review compared to Fisk is that the surveys don't appear to be very scientific, as the information comes from students who volunteered to be surveyed or submitted comments online. This means means that while the information is useful, it has to be taken with a grain of salt, as it may not be totally representative of the student body as a whole. Overall, I definitely think both guides are very useful and are worth consulting before making an important decision like this.
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