Need some
more help with the admissions process? These books will help you gain valuable
insight necessary to ensure your acceptance to college.
Competitive Colleges 2005
A selective college guide of 401 chosen colleges and universities with entering-class statistics indicating they routinely attract and admit an above-average share of the nation’s high-achieving students. Each institution has a full-page statistical profile.
This important new college guide definitively outlines the perfect match-ups between schools and majors. While The Princeton Review guide covers 250 majors and The College Board guide covers 600 majors, Peterson’s Making the Major Decision boasts more than 800 majors!
Down-to-earth advice from admissions professionals, guidance counselors, and parents who have survived (and thrived). Written by two mothers with over 30 years in the college admissions field, this guidebook provides information about making good student/college matches, paying the bills (and getting the help you may need to do it), completing applications to show off a child's strengths, and even enjoying the whole experience.
Current and former college students reveal their thoughts on the ups and downs of freshman year. The book contains lots of helpful advice on academics and testing, but really focuses on the important stuff, like dating, parties, and getting along with roommates, that can make for a great — or not so great — first year.
The leading college guide for more than three decades introduces more than 2,100 institutions in the U.S. and Canada, providing details on academic programs, majors, tuition, housing costs, student/faculty ratio, campus life, and more. Also comes with a Bonus CD featuring financial planning advice and online application capability.
Educational opportunities continue to open up for non-traditional students, and more and more are taking advantage of them. Highly motivated, they realize the benefits that a college degree can bring to their resume and their performance in the workplace. Going Back to School shows adult learners that it's never too late to further their education.
With 50 sample essays from successful applicants to some of America's top colleges and universities, this informative handbook provides helpful and timely information on today's most common essay questions and themes. Students learn what ideas and approaches have become stale, overused, and too gimmicky. Features insights from admissions directors on organization, theme, and style.
U.S. News & World Report, with its "America's Best Colleges" issue, reigns as master of the rankings game. No school is immune to its influences. College Rankings Exposed is the ultimate, long-awaited response to this illegitimate hijacking of the college planning and admissions process. Through insights from college presidents and deans, author and higher education consultant Paul Boyer empowers students and parents to ask the hard questions that will help them to find the right college and get the quality education they deserve.
For students, parents, and educators who prefer an abbreviated alternative to a comprehensive guide, this is everything an almanac should be--concise, compact, and filled with basic information and accurate facts and figures on more than 2,000 schools in the U.S. With timely information on the different aspects of choosing a college, applications and admission, and financial aid.
