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Title: The Best 311 Colleges: 1998 (Issn 1093-9679) by Edward T. Custard, Christine Chung, John Katzman, Zachary Knower, Tom Meltzer, Eric Owens ISBN: 0-679-78397-0 Publisher: Random House Inc Pub. Date: 01 September, 1997 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $20.00

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Average Customer Rating: 4.67 (6 reviews)

Rating: 3
Summary: very uneven in accuracy and emphasis
Comment: Much of the data, SAT scores and other info, was at least a year or two out-of-date. The preface stated the SAT scores would all be on the newly recentered scale, but were not.The narratives are often not changed much, if any, from year-to-year, so how up-to-date are they?The weighting system for evaluation favors Princeton U. strengths, so Princeton U. came out as best overall undergraduate experience (no surprise for Princeton grad editors!!) And, the book devotes as much space to schools of 500 as it does to schools of 50,000! There is a huge amount of variation between the academic experience of a P.E. major and a nuclear physics major at these big schools, and I'm sure one number rating for academic quality cannot do justice to both. But the book gives a good overall flavor, and I hope (presume) the numbers are overall reasonably accurate. If they gave one overall rating and publicized it, this would be more cited, I believe, than the U.S NEWS survey.

Rating: 5
Summary: The Best College Guide to Competitive Colleges
Comment: Of the 6 guides we used in our college search, we found this to be the most complete and useful with unbiased information about academics, quality of life and admissions. The Fiske Guide to Colleges was probably the second most informative.

Rating: 5
Summary: A good resource for finding the perfect college
Comment: I thought that this book was perfect!! I've seen others of its kind and there is no comparison because it offers how the students view the school