U.S. News Ultimate College Guide

by Sam Flanigan, Robert Morse, Anne McGrath, et al.

Complete profiles of more than 1400 four-year colleges. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1402208375
• ISBN13: 9781402208379
• Release Date: January 2006
• Publisher: Sourcebooks
• Length: 1763 Pages
• Weight: 5.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.3" x 8.5" x 10.6"

Customer Reviews

Great College Guide

This book was extremely helpful in looking at the basics of colleges. Gave tuition costs, size of student body, areas of study, and much more helpful information. It helped us narrow down the colleges we wanted to look at in Pennsylvania. Highly recommended.

Great place to start for high schoolers!

Gives all the knowledge you need to begin selecting universities for your teenagers.

Great Resource Material to Commence the Search

The encyclopedic reviews of the major universities can overwhelm the high school student. Students do intentionally shun books of such great girth, unless the title includes the words "Harry Potter." But, they are each a wealth of information, and this review is the most chock full of the bunch - better than Barron's, better than Fiske. . . But, rather than seeing the numbing numbers associated with many of the Ivies, or the comparatively impressive numbers associated with so many other schools, this education - which is extremely important and even more dreadful in expense - may need more than a sterile review than what is (or can) be provided by a book seeking to cover such a breadth of information within the confines of hundreds of pages. Encyclopedic reviews are not the books for all answers. They are sources to test the waters, to obtain some information, and then proceed to whittle down the "list" to a reasonable 20 chosen schools. When you have reached that time, it is then that the really well written and important books need to be read. Loren Pope is something of a maven on the topic of college admissions. His masterpiece is "Colleges That Change Lives: 40 Schools That Will Change the Way You Think About Colleges." It aids in finding establishments of education which do more than receive great students and manufacture them into . . . well . . . good or great students. He finds liberal arts colleges that receive fair or good students which manufacture them into great students. And, during his writing, he explains how each of the LAC's has a different character than the rest. If you want more, there are two others on this same line of reasoning: "The College Admissions Mystique" by Bill Mayher and "Looking beyond the Ivy League: Finding the College That's Right for You" by Loren Pope.

Very fine

This books is very good. The best in this category. It shows so much detail about the colleges.

Parent's Guide

We placed this book and the Princeton Review on our kitchen table and encourage the children to pick it up and glance through it. Then we asked them to pick five schools apiece which they beleved they could satisfy the academice standards and would like to visit. We talk about the schools over dinner and look up facts and discuss pros and cons. We start our trips next Spring.