Fiske Guide to Colleges - Tapa blanda

Reseña del editor

"The best college guide you can buy."
-USA Today
For more than 25 years, this leading guide to more than 310 colleges and universities-fully updated and expanded every year-has been an indispensable source of information for college-bound students and their parents. Helpful, 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 United States, plus Canada and Great Britain.

In addition to the candid essays on each school, you will find:

• A self-quiz to help you understand what you are really looking for in a college
• Lists of the strongest majors and programs at each college
• Vital information on how to apply, including admissions and financial aid deadlines, required tests, and each school's essay questions
• "Overlap" listings to help you expand your options
• Selectivity statistics and SAT/ACT scores
• Indexes that break down schools by price and state
• A list of schools with strong programs for learning disabled students
• All the basics, including email addresses and university websites

Plus a special section highlighting the 5 public and private Best Buy schools-colleges that provide the best educational value

The guide the San Francisco Chronicle called "the bible."

Biografía del autor

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, updated annually with Robert Logue and the Fiske editorial team. He is also the author, with Bruce G. Hammond, of the Fiske Guide to Getting Into the Right College.