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Best-Car-Care.com - Choosing the Right College: 2008-2009: The Whole Truth about America's Top Schools
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Manufacturer: Intercollegiate Studies Institute
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 378.73
EAN: 9781933859231
ISBN: 1933859237
Label: Intercollegiate Studies Institute
Manufacturer: Intercollegiate Studies Institute
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 1000
Publication Date: 2007-06-15
Publisher: Intercollegiate Studies Institute
Studio: Intercollegiate Studies Institute
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The ISI guide also provides specific advice on which professors to seek out—and which courses and departments to avoid.  As an exclusive feature, Choosing the Right College advises students which courses they should take at each school to provide themselves with a true core curriculum. This unique build-your-own-core feature is one more reason that Choosing the Right College has become the most valuable and trusted college guide on the market for students seeking a genuine liberal education.  This 2008–9 edition includes essays on thirteen institutions not previously covered: Agnes Scott College, Case Western Reserve University, Centre College, Fordham University, George Washington University, Gettysburg College, University of King’s College (Halifax), Lehigh University, Occidental College, University of Rochester, Trinity Western University (British Columbia), University of Tulsa, and Union College.
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Summary: Extremely biased, unreliable, and misleading
Comment: If you are one of those viewers of Fox News who accepts its self-characterization as "fair and balanced," and if you believe Rush Limbaugh is the Messiah, then this book is for you. It perpetuates all the extremist right-wing myths about universities and professors, providing highly selective, biased, and tendentious evidence for its preposterous assertions. I am a political moderate and centrist who has been teaching in higher education for 20 years, and if you do decide to buy this book then I urge you to view its assertions with a healthy dose of critical skepticism (just as I believe you should do for an extreme leftist book).
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Summary: Internal audit/review
Comment: Though this book seemed daunting at first, I have found the information it contained to give an eye-opening look into the universities covered. What you cannot see on a tour, nor gleen from the admissions department interview, can be concisely laid-out in a real world look through the book's eyes. It has saved our family time and money travelling to the many colleges we have considered based on name and reputation only. We are hoping for a broader, cleaner, safer, more intellectual path for our future college student and it is hard to permeate most college's showy exteriors to find the guts of the real educational show. This book is an invaluable tool.
My only disappointments with the book are that I would have liked a chart to concisely narrow down my reading rather than having to glut through all of the colleges. Also, pure whimsey, but I wish the book had covered even more colleges/universities than it did! Hardly possible.
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Summary: Great Book
Comment: This book has been immensely useful in my search for the right university. Of all the books I've looked through, read, even bought, this book was the most accurate in giving me a feel for the schools.
An absolute shoo-in compared to other choosing college books.
Hands down, the best.
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Summary: Cute read but very bias
Comment: The book, though well written, is very bias, especially in terms what it considers "legitimate" academics. In the review of Oberlin college(I'm currently a student) the author seemed to value only the western canons of philosophy, religion, and literature, belittling, and devaluing Oberlin's rich and diverse offerings in non western cultures and literatures. The author also seemed to be dismissive of courses/majors that took a critical look at the world in terms of race, class, gender, sexuality, and class, dismissing them as more or less pitty parties(not his exact words but the words he did use were more or less to that effect-sorry I'm not able to remember the exact words). The other parts of his reviews were either just flat out wrong or half truths at best. Yes, Oberlin does have a alcohol and drug culture(like MANY colleges) but neglected to let readers know that, unlike many schools, there is NO pressure(i.e. if someone offers you drugs/alcohol and you decline they, 9 times out of 10, will not pressure you/ask you again). He also cited Christians would have a hard time-if you're the type to force your ideas upon others in a close minded way then yes you will have a problem here-but that's wilth any philosophy you try to shove down people's throats at Oberlin. I am a practicing Christian and have yet to have a problem here at Oberlin. Also, Oberlin is not a haven for "confusing sexuality" as he painted various events on campus as such. It's is, though very open and very accepting place for many types of people. Oberlin, in a lot of ways, forces you to think critically about issues that are important to this world-many of which are outside the western canon of standards or actually question those standards, and that is what I think the author has a real issues with. While an interesting review, it was definitely not balanced, and very skewed. It might be an OK(at best) addition to a list of other more balanced college books when looking at colleges, but it definitely shouldn't be your be all end all book for college information(nor should any one book really). But even if you include this book in your collection, remember the author definitely has a biased agenda(unlike many other neutral college books) and to take his review with a grain of salt
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Summary: Good Information With a Conservative Bias
Comment: The book is not a bad one. It has plenty of detailed information about lots of schools [mostly moderate to very selective ones] as well as lots of quotes from students. It seems very well researched and provides a good idea of the "feels" of these campuses.
My main problem with the book is that it tends to the conservative side quite a bit. For example, in almost every school review, there is a sentence like, "Of course, there are also a few courses like "Gay and Lesbian Studies" or "Race in Latin America", but most of the offered courses are solid." Many times the author [and there are apparently many] will criticize more liberal colleges [i.e. Swarthmore], claiming that conservative students are treated badly. However, for the more conservative colleges [i.e. Texas A&M], there is no such criticism.
Remember that the books partner guide is "Choosing a Conservative College". Good info, just take it with a grain of salt.
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