By Princeton Review
This comprehensive college-planning guide is written for any student or parent mystified by the confusing college admissions process. It provides the facts about the best schools in the country, popular college ranking lists, and the information needed to make a smart decision about which schools to consider.
Revealing answers from college students cover each school's unique character and give you extensive insight into their classes, financial aid, social life, and everything in between. Students are the experts, after all, and we talked to 122,000 of them!
Features:

• One-of-a-kind college rankings reveal the top colleges in 62 categories based on how students at the schools rated their colleges. The ranking lists include:
  • Top Professors
  • Best Financial Aid
  • Best Career/Job Placement Services
  • Best Classroom Experiences
  • Top Party Schools
  • Dorms Like Palaces
  • Best Athletic Facilities
  • Best Campus Food
  • Most Politically Active Students
  • Most Diverse Student Population
  • Class Discussions Encouraged
  • Best College Newspaper
  • and more!
• Learn what you can do in high school to prepare yourself for admission to a selective college
• Get all the application essentials - tuition, admissions criteria, deadlines, phone numbers, addresses, demographics, student/faculty ratios, and most popular majors - for quick reference and easy comparison when you're narrowing down your choices
• Green college ratings help readers find out if schools are environmentally friendly
• Special section on great colleges for the 15 most popular majors
• An Index of Schools by Cost allows you to search all colleges in the book by price