The Insider's Guide to the Colleges, 2015: Students on Campus Tell You What You Really Want to Know, 41st Edition

The Insider's Guide To The Colleges (41st Edition) Students On Campus Tell You What You Really Want To Know (compiled and edited by the Staff of The Yale Daily News) features a sample list of colleges/universities across the United States. The address of each college andor university mentioned, the year that the college andor university was founded, the deadline and approximate application fee at the time of the writing of each college/university featured, an educational place on the east coast where a multiple number of students in their free time are known for working at their places of employment andor volunteering, a university listed in this book on the east coast where a significant number of students feel that there are a variety of options to study college major wise (listed to be a commuter type of school in a wealthy suburb page 506), a school with an abundant range of extracurricular activities and clubs (page 110) and more. The caveat is that a multiple number of colleges are unlisted in this book. Still this book is strong for gathering some ideas.

Have given this to two high school seniors. Great resource. My daughter used it 30 years ago and I thought it was valuable resource.

The info is not terribly up to date anymore (was accurate for my first college kid, less so for the third now). but It still gives a fairly accurate view of the "feel" of most colleges. This only covers about the top 250 or so schools in the US.

My 11th grader thinks this book has been very helpful. It has information she hasn't seen elsewhere and is helping her to make great choices for her potential school list...

It's obvious that the colleges (unless they are really big and important) have to pay to be in this book. Many large public schools are not mentioned at all, while some very small colleges with fewer than 1000 students are included. If you are going to Havard or Yale, you no doubt already know enough about those schools.

Still a quality product. Used it myself many decades ago, then used for older kids. Really gives an accurate sense of each school.

The Insider's Guide has become much more corporate, bloated and schematic than it was originally. The charm of the original editions was its unapologetic iconoclasm and its eschewal of statistics, which were the meat and potatoes of the mainstream college guides. The current Insider's Guide wants to be an all-in-one machine, totally unnecessary with the Internet as a research tool. So I'm not so thrilled about it. I don't think it's going to fire the imaginations of my teenage sons, honestly.

Interesting for college wannabes to read what current students are experiencing at a significant number of some top institutions country-wide.It's like the missing ingredient to Fiske, which I'd strongly suggest as a companion.

Dieses Buch gibt Einblicke "hinter die Kulissen" der Studenten. Wenn man von den Studenten selbst etwas über die Uni, die Atmosphäre und Campus-Leben erfahren will, ist der Insider's Guide der beste Lesestoff. Schon ein Klassiker seit über 20 Jahren, aber ständig aktualisiert.