The Best 386 Colleges, 2021: In-Depth Profiles & Ranking Lists to Help Find the Right College For You (2021) (College Admissions Guides)

My daughter found this book very helpful during her search. She said it was the only book she needed. In an age when everything is electronic, it made it easy to flip back and forth. While her applications have now been submitted, I expect she will continue to use the book to narrow down her final choice.

Really love the layout of this book and the fact that they have chosen colleges and universities from every level. Basically, the to 10% across the board, not just the Ivies and other top tier. Good information about the feel of the campus and the types of community you will find.

Not so good It seems to attribute the same characteristics to all colleges.

Has been a very useful tool in the college search! I have even purchased it for other parents with high schoolers

Contains a lot of great information!

I have both this and the Fiske version of college guide and when I saw this version, I was very excited. It has more info due to it's smaller print and details. And it is so well organized with each college getting 2 pages and on those two pages everything is neatly compartmentalized into a handful of labeled sections. Unlike the Fiske where all of the descriptions are in paragraphs blended into each overall account and different colleges have different amounts of description that starts and ends where ever it needs instead of at the end of the page. I just loved how neat and orderly the Best365 was, making it easy to find what you need and compare.BUTthen I found something that I found misleading. I found a college that was listed as free tuition. Everything seemed great. But I had to look deeply online to find out that they ONLY accepted low income families. That is something that should have been noted.I wanted to think that I could still trust this book but then I found 2 big inaccuracies:One college was listed 20% cheaper tuition than the college stated online. And I was referencing the correct year.Another college that I had already researched and found on their website information regarding their non-need based scholarships was listed in this guide as offering 0% non-need based money. I knew this was untrue. I feel like I saw another thing or two that bothered me but I can't remember now.Keep in mind that this is 20-30 minutes into looking at this book. I didn't find just a handful of inaccuracies over the course of the year. I so badly wanted to be able to enjoy this book but If I can't trust it's information, then the information is useless.update:I do find the hints on what the colleges are specifically looking compelling. many of the hints are "quoted" so I would guess that they are accurate. I now believe I will be having to reference this book also.

I’m coloring outside the lines when I am doing the opposite of following the rule/guideline of keeping major goals secret. For some reason, my logic andor intuition is indirectly influencing me to admit that I intend to enroll in some type of college, university andor community college course within the next 2.5 years andor much sooner for multiple reasons that are very practical and obvious to me (even with my awareness of what some well-meaning people in my offline andor online life might think or say about me doing so). There are at least two people outside of my friends and family network who I prefer to give proper and due credit to helping me have the self confidence (especially in the post covid era)to bring my college dreams alive again/resurrect my college dreams who are also spiritual mentors. I have seen multiple colleges and universities that intrigue me get advertised online including even in my email inbox. Still, even though I have learned the challenging way how to look into and select certain colleges via my own intuition and logic I still prefer to look at guides that also have information on multiple college and university options to help broaden my awareness. This indirectly influenced my purchase of The Best 386 Colleges (In-depth Profiles & Ranking Lists To Help Find The Right College For You Based on Feedback From 143,000 Students) via the Princeton Review and author Robert Franek. The following is some of the information included: how a multiple number of the lists were compiled, a section on certain schools for certain majors, school rankings and lists by certain categories, the categories include for instance best counseling services and students study the most/best college library, categories of quality of life and town life are also among the multiple categories featured, best career services among certain schools are included, an open mind is needed because controversial categories are included that feature LGBTQ Friendly and LGBTQ unfriendly are also included, a listing of some tuition-free schools, some colleges listed best value, best value colleges for students with no demonstrated need, best schools for internships, what appears to be the ranking of the colleges/universities in Alphabetical order, For instance American University in Washington D.C. is featured and includes their direct website and quality of life ,some of the more well known popular majors of American University are featured in addition to some the schools at American University that are featured (School of International Service and School of Public Affairs,) and much more.