The Best 351 Colleges, 2004 Edition
by Robert Franek, Princeton Review

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This guide provides so much more data than the U.S. News college ranking. There are over 60 college ranking categories associated with academics, quality of life, financial aid, and many other factors. Each schools are rated along three major factors: Campus Life, Academics, Selectivity. The feedback from students is invaluable, because this is how you find the real dope on any aspect of a specific college.

There are several great tools associated with this book located at the Princeton Review website. One of them include a free online application utility where you can save you data. So, you don't need to reenter your personal data when you apply to different school.

But, the most incredible tool is the Counselor-O-Matic feature. You enter your GPA, test scores (or what you anticipate these will be), and your preferences in terms of size, type, and another 20 or more defining categories. Out of the 351 school database, the Counsel-O-Matic gives you a selection of 5 best matches for your Reach, Match, and Safe school. If you register at the site (free), you will get 20 choices in each category (total 60). If you then click on any of the choices, you can get a ton of information regarding student feedback, rankings in academics, quality of life and many other categories. You also get a profile of the freshman class GPA, and test scores. You also get info of what is really important for the admission officers from this specific school. These represent invaluable tips that will maximize your chance of getting in.

All the information extracted from the website is included in the book. The website is just a nifty way of using database technology to query and extract the relevant information you want.

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