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Profiles of American Colleges with CD-ROM (Barron's Profiles of American Colleges) ( Barron's Educational Series )
Release Date: 2006-07-01
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Up-to-date information on enrollments, tuition and fees, academic programs, campus environment, available financial aid, and much more, combine to make 27th edition of Profiles of American Colleges America’s most authoritative source for information on colleges and universities. College-bound students, parents, and high school guidance counselors will find information on more than 1,650 accredited four-year colleges across the United States. A CD-ROM enclosed with each copy of this comprehensive directory presents an interactive format and lets students find individual schools by entering specific criteria. In addition to the above-cited information, each college profile gives details on admission requirements, library and computer facilities, athletic facilities, extracurricular activities, e-mail addresses, fax numbers, web sites, and more. Schools are rated according to Barron’s famous competitiveness scale, from “Noncompetitive” to “Most Competitive.” The book’s extra section of tinted pages presents a complete, quick-reference Index of College Majors—listing all available major study programs at each school. Also profiled are many of the best-known colleges in Canada and several other countries.
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Good guide for starting the college search ( paulallaer )
I have been through the college search once before, and now am at it again with my daughter who is a HS junior. There are several of these mammoth guides out there. How does this one stack up?
"Barron's Profiles of American Colleges 2007" (1656 pages) is divided up in several sections. The first part brings a listing of which majors are provided by what colleges. This was a very handy tool for my daughter, who has very specific ideas as to what majors she is interested in. This section also ranks the colleges in competitiveness/exclusivity (going from "Most Competitive" to "Highly Competitive" etc. all the way down to "Noncompetitive". After that the book brings an overview, thankfully state-by-state, about 1700 colleges. It focuses mostly on the "hard" data such as admittance criteria, tuition and room/boarding fees, etc. As such this book is also handy. What you will not not get is the more subjective assessments on what it's really like at a particular college, but there are other college guides for that, such as Princeton's "The Best 361 Colleges".
Due to its massive size (and weight), the book is somewhat hard to use, but generally speaking this is not a bad place to start off the college info gathering process. There is also a CD-Rom which I must admit we have not used.
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finding your way to the right college or university ( cantabridge )
Guides to colleges tend to convey either statistical reportage derived from the college itself or anecdotal subjectivity provided by the school's students and other constituencies.
The Barron's Guides lean strongly in the first of these two directions.
You get information on the demographics of the student body, admission percentages, faculty qualifications, tuition prices and room and board (sometimes out of date or rounded down by the time it hits these pages), average SAT and ACT scores, and a ranking provided by Barron's or its suppliers (most competitive, very competitive, etc.). After using Barron's and another couple of guides with my two college-bound sons, I believe the competitiveness ratings tend to be generous. Many schools are rated surprisingly high and there is no category entitled 'You'd have to really hate your child to send him to this joint.' We all know there should be.
There is also information on international students, disabled students, campus security, and similar categories.
You get a lot of good data here. What you don't get is color commentary. For that, you'll need to make a campus visit or buy a guide like the one published by the Princeton Review. It rates fewer arguably more select colleges and universities, whereas Barron's attempts to be exhaustive on a state-by-state basis.
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