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Title: Cool Colleges: For the Hyper-Intelligent, Self-Directed, Late Blooming, and Just Plain Different by Donald Asher ISBN: 1-58008-150-9 Publisher: Ten Speed Press Pub. Date: January, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (6 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Ten Years?
Comment: I find it hard to believe that it took Donald Asher ten years to research this book. He provided useful information on a handful of colleges. The rest of the book was mostly filler. I did not have any sense of his personal experiences at the institutions he visited. This book was not worth the price.
Rating: 5
Summary: A most unique college guide. Highly recommended.
Comment: Read this college guide togther with books such as "Colleges that Change Lives", "Beer and Circus", and "The Distinctive Colleges". You will see that the opinions expressed in this book is quite on the mark. This book should be regarded as a college guide to college guides. Plus, it tells you the representative colleges from each categories such as the scholarly colleges, the "great books" colleges, etc.
U.S. News and World Report's College Guide is pretty silly. It tells you how selective a college is. I.e., how good are the incoming students to each college. Well, we don't want to know how healthy are the patients that are admitted to a hospital. We want to know how much the hospital is going to do for a patient. Likewise, a college guide should tell us how much a college is going to do, educate, mentor and enable a student. Choosing a college is like buying a product. I want to know what that product will do for me, not how well I am.
Buy this book. It is highly recommended!
Rating: 4
Summary: Worth a look for its different perspective
Comment: I considered giving it 3 stars, because it's mostly filler, but it was... well, "cool", and it provides a fresh perspective on colleges that might be quite valuable for some kids and their parents.
The author's basic concept is to look beyond the popular reputation of colleges and the "U.S. News" type of surveys. There are lots of essentially unknown places that would be very rewarding for the right kind of student. Some people are hung up on whether their friends have ever heard of the college; this book encourages people to get over that status-oriented thinking.
The college featured in this book that struck as unbelievably cool is Deep Springs, on a huge ranch in the high desert of Eastern California. The students (all 26 of them!) not only run the ranch, they also run the college... interviewing applicants for admission AND for faculty positions. It's only a 2-year school, and the students go on to top-tier schools (Ivies, Berkley, Swarthmore). And it's totally FREE!
But back to the book.... It's very disorganized (clearly intentionally so), and could have been pared down to less than 100 pages of actual content. Buy it if you are obsessive about college research (like me!), but borrow it if you have the opportunity.
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Title: Colleges That Change Lives: 40 Schools You Should Know About Even If You're Not a Straight-A Student by Loren Pope ISBN: 0140296166 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: 08 August, 2000 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Looking Beyond the Ivy League: Finding the College That's Right for You by Loren Pope ISBN: 0140239529 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: April, 1996 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: The Fiske Guide to Colleges 2004 (Fiske Guide to Colleges) by Edward B. Fiske, Robert Logue ISBN: 1402200609 Publisher: Sourcebooks Trade Pub. Date: July, 2003 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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Title: The Insider's Guide to the Colleges 2004: 30th Edition by Daily News Yale ISBN: 0312316186 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 18 July, 2003 List Price(USD): $17.99 |
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Title: Unofficial Biased Insider's Guide to the 320 Most Interesting Colleges by Trent Anderson, Seppy Basili ISBN: 074323054X Publisher: Kaplan Pub. Date: 01 July, 2002 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
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