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Complete Book of Colleges, 2009 Edition (College Admissions Guides) | 
| Author: Princeton Review
Publisher: Princeton Review
Category: Book
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Pages: 1600
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Dimensions (in): 10.9 x 8.4 x 2.4
ISBN: 0375428747
Dewey Decimal Number: 378.73
EAN: 9780375428746
ASIN: 0375428747
Publication Date: August 5, 2008
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Product Description
Target the schools that best match your interests and goals! The Complete Book of Colleges profiles all of the four-year colleges in the U.S. (more than 1,600!) and is the key to a successful college search.
Complete Book of Colleges is packed with all of the information that prospective applicants need to know, including the details on:
Academics
Admissions requirements
Application procedures
Tuition and fees
Transferring options
Housing
Financial Aid
Athletics
…and much, much more!
Fully updated for 2009, the Complete Book of Colleges contains all of the latest information about each school. Its unique “Admissions Wizard” questionnaire is designed to help you find schools that meet your individual needs. With competition for college admission at an all-time high, count on The Princeton Review to provide you with the most thorough and accurate guidance on the market.
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 Sometimes Wrong Information is Worse than No Information October 3, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Princeton Review's Complete Book of Colleges offers some useful basic information about TONS of schools. It's a fine place to start. However, this guide does appear to have some weaknesses. Statistical information is offered for each listing, but it is not always the same information and not always presented in the same order. For instance, sometimes there will be middle-50% SAT Writing scores, and sometimes not. This hinders the reader's ability to compare schools on even very basic measures. There are also numerous errors in the text. For instance, a school that I know for a fact is co-ed is listed as having a 100% female undergraduate population. And one of the strongest UCs is missing its "Best 368" icon, though surrounded by listings of relatively weaker UCs that do have the icon. Sometimes incorrect information can be more damaging to a college search process than no information at all. Each school listing begins with an "Admissions Selectivity" rating, a "Green" rating, and (bizarrely) a "Fire Safety" rating. I could not find anywhere in the text a discussion of methodology for how these ratings were computed or what they mean. (Or why "fire safety" is one of the top three factors a student should consider when selecting a post-secondary institution.) In all fairness, this book does provide a great deal of information, and I'm sure much of it is accurate. My advice to readers would be to cross-check the information you gather from this source with another source, such as a different college guide or the websites of the colleges and universities you are researching.
 Good, Not Great September 30, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book gave a lot of the information that I needed but it was not very organized. You really have to search for the information that you need.
Okay but not great resource for starting the college search September 1, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
My youngest just started college a few weeks so I'm officially done with the college process but when I saw this as my local library, I couldn't resist picking this up, just out of curiosity.
"The Princeton Review Complete Book of Colleges (2009 Edition)" (1,572 pages) is, in all but details pretty much the same as the 2008 edition, not that it's a bad thing or that it matters, as most readers will likely be new to the college search process, or restarting it after a few years off. The best thing about this book that it does offer a pretty good overview of the 1,800 or so colleges profiled in here. All of those colleges are listed alphabetically, which makes it a bit less user-friendly. It is a fact that 80% of kids look to colleges in their home state, so why not have the colleges grouped by state? There is, to be fair, an index in the back of colleges by state, among other indexes, such as size, environment, cost, and selectivity. The last 500 pages of the book is in essence paid advertising by those colleges that wanted to pay for that (each college receives 2 pages; the editorial content of that section was done entirely by the colleges themselves, NOT by the Princeton Review).
The biggest flaw in this book is that for some inexplicable reason there are a good number college profiles that lack information on tuition and room/board cost. How can that be? All that said, this book is a just okay starting point for anyone in the college search process, in particular if the student does not have any strong feelings about which colleges are on his or her shortlist. For a better alternative when you're just starting, I'd suggest the 2009 Edition of the gigantic (closer to 3000 pages) "Peterson's Four Year Colleges". But by no means should it be the end point. There are other sources out there, some serious, others irreverent, that will complement this book. For those more advances in their college search, I'd readily recommend the Princeton Review's 2009 Edition of "The Best 368 Colleges".
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