Choosing The Right College

Author : Intercollegiate Studies Institute
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 832 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Education
ISBN : PSU:000045631252

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Choosing the Right College by Intercollegiate Studies Institute Pdf

In his introduction, former drug czar William J. Bennett supports this reference for its "tough-minded analysis of the quality of instruction, the level of academic standards, the campus political atmosphere, and the extent to which the liberal arts tradition is respected...." These evaluations are intended to help conservative parents and students steer away from colleges whose programs lean too heavily toward the political left; in effect, conversely, it can also help liberal-minded folk find the less tradition-bound schools. Entries describe and assess 110 top colleges and universities in essays of about 3,000 words, focusing on the school's academic, political, and social climates. They name outstanding professors, describe curricula, comment on the administration's policies towards issues such as sexual harassment and free speech, and describe the range of student organizations and activities found on campus. Quotes from students and professors are included. Entries also include information on tuition, enrollment, and SAT scores. This second edition contains 10 more essays, updated coverage of every school, a new essay on liberal learning, and increased coverage of student life. c. Book News Inc.

Author : John Zmirak
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 1234 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2014-03-11
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781480492998

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Choosing the Right College 2014–15 by John Zmirak Pdf

“By far the best college guide, for both its honesty and its insights.” —Thomas Sowell Over the past decade, Choosing the Right College has established itself as the indispensable resource for students—and parents—who want the unvarnished truth about America’s top colleges and universities. It is the most in-depth, independently researched college guide on the market, using on-campus sources to turn up the best—and worst—aspects of nearly 150 schools. Just as important, Choosing the Right College covers the intellectual, political, and social conditions that really matter, including: · The integrity and rigor of the curriculum · Which courses and professors to take—and which to avoid · The prevalence of politics in the classroom and the state of free speech—all highlighted with ISI’s unique “traffic light” · Living arrangements, safety, and other keys to student life · How to get a real education at any school Beyond all that, this brand-new edition of Choosing the Right College features a host of innovations, including: “So You’re Looking For...,” top-five lists of colleges for all types of students; a quick list of each school’s strengths and weaknesses; an insider’s look at the pros and cons of online education; and more. This new edition of Choosing the Right College also provides the financial information families need in this age of soaring tuition. What are the most overpriced colleges—and which are relatively good values? What is the average student-debt load? To cap it all off, Choosing the Right College introduces the groundbreaking feature “Blue Collar Ivies”—in-depth reports on the best affordable colleges in all fifty states. Choosing the Right College 2014–15 will completely change the way young people make a life-altering decision.

Author : Michael B. Horn,Bob Moesta
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2019-09-11
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781119570110

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Choosing College by Michael B. Horn,Bob Moesta Pdf

Cut through the noise and make better college and career choices This book is about addressing the college-choosing problem. The rankings, metrics, analytics, college visits, and advice that we use today to help us make these decisions are out of step with the progress individual students are trying to make. They don't give students and families the information and context they need to make such a high-stakes decision about whether and where to get an education. Choosing College strips away the noise to help you understand why you’re going to school. What's driving you? What are you trying to accomplish? Once you know why, the book will help you make better choices. The research in this book illustrates that choosing a school is complicated. By constructing more than 200 mini-documentaries of how students chose different postsecondary educational experiences, the authors explore the motivations for how and why people make the decisions that they do at a much deeper, causal level. By the end, you’ll know why you’re going and what you’re really chasing. The book: Identifies the five different Jobs for which students hire postsecondary education Allows you to see your true options for what’s next Offers guidance for how to successfully choose your pathway Illuminates how colleges and entrepreneurs can build better experiences for each Job The authors help readers understand not what job students want out of college, but what "Job" students are hiring college to do for them.

Author : John Zmirak
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 2632 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2014-04-08
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781497620834

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Choosing the Right College 2012–2013 by John Zmirak Pdf

Choosing the Right College is the most in-depth, independently researched college guide on the market, and the only source for students and parents who want the unvarnished truth about America’s top colleges and universities. Updated and expanded, Choosing the Right College 2012-13 features incisive essays, telling statistics, and revealing sidebars on 140 schools—Ivy League institutions, state universities, liberal arts colleges, religious schools, military academies, and lesser-known schools worth a careful look. Here you’ll discover information you can’t get anywhere else about the intellectual, political, and social conditions at each institution, including: •Insider tips on the best—and worst—departments, courses, and professors •The statistics that colleges don’t want you to know •A unique “traffic light” feature—red, yellow, or green—that reveals the state of intellectual freedom and the extent of political correctness on campus •The truth about day-to-day student life: the social scene, living arrangements, campus safety, clubs, sports, traditions, and much more •A roadmap for getting a real education at any school, whether a huge state university or a tiny liberal arts college •Essential financial information, including the extent of need-based financial aid and the average student-debt load of graduates •The most overpriced colleges—and the good values you don’t know about "Practically every aspect of university life that a potential student would want to investigate can be found within these pages.”—THOMAS E. WOODS JR., Ph.D., bestselling author of Meltdown

Author : Bob Roth
Publisher : Author House
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2010-04-20
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781449088637

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College Success by Bob Roth Pdf

All parents want their children to be successful in college. For most, success means that their children graduate from college with a good job or are accepted to Graduate School. This book is for parents who want to help their children achieve the success they desire in college and beyond. Clearly, there are paths that lead to those two goals, paths that are often unknown or unclear to parents and students alike. For that reason, the author describes and emphasizes the key factors that lead to college, employment and career success. Parents also receive much useful advice on how to help their children capitalize on their natural talents, find their stride and pursue their dreams. The early chapters quickly take readers through the years prior to college, so parents with children who are not yet in college can determine if they are ready and what they need. In fact, some students may benefit from taking a year off after high school. For parents with children about to enter college or already in college, the author has included the information, tools, techniques and suggestions that both parents and students need. Parents will learn how students can avoid the ugly side of college life, how students can select their major and career direction, the three areas in which students must excel, the universal success skills students should develop, the 18 myths that students believe, the importance of accomplishments, the value of preparation and much more. Most importantly, parents will learn to play an effective supporting role in student success. Each chapter of this book covers a topic that all college parents should understand and address. With the information provided, parents will have the ability to help their children chart a course that can significantly improve their chances for success, during and after college.

Author : Sandra L. Berger
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 157 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2021-09-03
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781000491173

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College Planning for Gifted Students by Sandra L. Berger Pdf

College Planning for Gifted Students: Choosing and Getting Into the Right College is a must-have for any gifted or advanced learner planning to attend college. Sandra Berger, a nationally recognized expert on college and career planning for gifted students, provides a hands-on, practical guide to college planning in this updated edition of the best-selling College Planning for Gifted Students. Berger focuses specifically on helping gifted students discover who they are and how that discovery corresponds to the perfect postsecondary endeavor. The author also provides useful, practical advice for writing college application essays, requesting recommendation letters, visiting colleges, and acing the college entrance interview. Throughout the book, helpful timelines and checklists are provided to give students and their parents, teachers, and counselors assistance in planning for and choosing the right college. Grades 9-12

Author : Brennan Barnard,Rick Clark
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2023-09-05
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781421447483

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The Truth about College Admission by Brennan Barnard,Rick Clark Pdf

"A guide for students and families that demystifies the college process"--

Author : Steven R. Antonoff,Marie Ann Friedemann
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2001-09
Category : Education
ISBN : 1575090716

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College Match by Steven R. Antonoff,Marie Ann Friedemann Pdf

Author : Michael S. Roth
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2014-05-28
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780300206555

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Beyond the University by Michael S. Roth Pdf

Contentious debates over the benefits—or drawbacks—of a liberal education are as old as America itself. From Benjamin Franklin to the Internet pundits, critics of higher education have attacked its irrelevance and elitism—often calling for more vocational instruction. Thomas Jefferson, by contrast, believed that nurturing a student’s capacity for lifelong learning was useful for science and commerce while also being essential for democracy. In this provocative contribution to the disputes, university president Michael S. Roth focuses on important moments and seminal thinkers in America’s long-running argument over vocational vs. liberal education. Conflicting streams of thought flow through American intellectual history: W. E. B. DuBois’s humanistic principles of pedagogy for newly emancipated slaves developed in opposition to Booker T. Washington’s educational utilitarianism, for example. Jane Addams’s emphasis on the cultivation of empathy and John Dewey’s calls for education as civic engagement were rejected as impractical by those who aimed to train students for particular economic tasks. Roth explores these arguments (and more), considers the state of higher education today, and concludes with a stirring plea for the kind of education that has, since the founding of the nation, cultivated individual freedom, promulgated civic virtue, and instilled hope for the future.

Author : Lloyd Thacker
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Education
ISBN : 0674019776

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College Unranked by Lloyd Thacker Pdf

The presidents and admission deans of leading colleges and universities remind readers that college choice and admission are a matter of fit, and that many colleges are "good" in different ways. They call for bold changes in admissions policies and application strategies to help schools and applicants fully appreciate what college is really for.

Author : Patricia M. McDonough
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1997-11-13
Category : Education
ISBN : 0791434788

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Choosing Colleges by Patricia M. McDonough Pdf

Examines the everyday experiences of high school seniors as they choose their colleges and demonstrates that college choice is a more complex social and organizational reality than has been previously understood.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Intercollegiate Studies Institute
Page : 1000 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : College choice
ISBN : PSU:000055928670

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Choosing the Right College, 2004 by Anonim Pdf

Evaluates the academic life, political atmosphere, and social conditions at more than one hundred of the top colleges and universities in the United States.

Author : Steven R. Antonoff
Publisher : Wintergreen Orchard House
Page : 545 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781933119861

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The College Finder by Steven R. Antonoff Pdf

A user-friendly guide written for the college shopper. A book of lists, this is the way to identify colleges where students will get in and fit in; includes the best schools in various fields, hidden gems, best dorm food, great low-cost colleges, best places to study abroad, and activisit campuses.

Author : Annette Turngren
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1952
Category : College, Choice
ISBN : UOM:39015005315893

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Choosing the Right College by Annette Turngren Pdf

Author : Yale Daily News
Publisher : Saint Martin's Griffin
Page : 1012 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2000-08
Category : Universities and colleges
ISBN : 0312204140

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The Insider's Guide to the Colleges by Yale Daily News Pdf

Now in its 27th year, The Insider's Guide to the Colleges is an intelligent, sometimes irreverent, compilation of student-written articles about every aspect of college life, from cafeteria food to academics to the campus social scene.