College and University Books

A great insider to the university. All truth no hoax. Much better than princeton review. buy now!!!

As a high school student applying to very selective colleges, I have read through every "how to get into college" that I could get my hands on. This one is simply the most comprehensive and the best. Many of these types of books talk down to the reader, trying to sweeten the application process. This one does not over-simplify. It gave me a really good sense of the "big picture"--how what you do in high school affects your admissions chances at the big-name schools. I only wish I had read it when I was in ninth grade!

Although I thought the book had ideas on the basics, it failed to deliver the actual resources/websites, etc. needed. FastWeb as she recommends is like finding the needle (Scholarship) in the haystack. She indicates she founded Wisconsin's first online scholarship database but shared no specifics of this info. Sorry I purchased the book.

What a great gathering of wisdom for those intending to go on to college. For high school students and parents alike, the author has put together an easy-to-understand book filled with information to help gain scholarships. Well written, it's an education about higher education. Kudos.

I bought this book because i live in the south, and all the schools i applied to are in the south as well.

This book goes into depth about each one; it doesn't go REALLY in-depth, but it gives more information than any other book . It has about 20 pages of information on every college, which is more than most books- that usually don't have more than 3/4 pages on a single college. It talks about all the colleges on about 15 different aspects, a few that some books dont even mention, which is quite helpful.

The book is also extremely well organized. It's easy to look up any of the colleges in different aspects easily.

I recommend this book as it gives you good information on all the colleges it includes, both negative and positive feedback. It judges colleges not only on an overall basis, but also on many different aspects, which helps one see the specific strengths and weaknesses of each college.

This book is used for 1st year English taken at Florida State University. It is really helpful when writing papers and referenced throughout the clsas. Don't let the bookstore rip you off, and take advantage of this book listed at a fraction of the price!

This book is an exceptional resource for researching enrollment at Seattle University because it includes all of the tidbits and details one might never think to ask about the school until classes have already started and it is too late. One question might be "will there be 12 a.m. singing trios in the bathrooms"? Another might be "who will help me plan my four years at the university?" These questions and more are addressed in this guidebook about the school.
In other words, the book contains more that just the mere factoids and statistics one is confronted with in every pamphlet or online site about SU. It is written by a student in full swing of college life there and includes the opinions of a number of current students both praising and criticising the university. This helps present an accurate picture of what life is really like on the SU campus.
The book contains unusual sections including --but not limited to-- the attractiveness of the campus population, the best night life in the city and the traditions at the school. These are things that might take months or years to find on one's own, but with this book, they are all neatly categorized and explained. The editorials are succinct, but well-researched. The student quotes present the myriad of attitudes toward the school and allow the reader to decide for himself what to believe. In short, this book is a valuable aid to understanding the real SU college experience. It is the only book which will give you such a matter-of-fact explanation of what students think about the Seattle University.

Mr. Tingle addresses, nay, jumps head-over-heels over a million foot cliff into the tumultuous Class V waters of late adolescents' struggle with identity as reflected (or not) in their college writing classes. I am a Psychologist working in a college counseling center, and I am a former instructor of writing. Tingle's deep, rich, textured, comical (in the odd way he can be comical while discussing Kant)and conversational (in the odd way he can be utterly conversational and unpretentious while discussing the Fourth Order of Consciousness as if you were both at Dunkin' Donuts)style is absolutely charming, engaging and, perhaps, most surprisingly,leaves me thinking "Damn--I am FOLLOWING this !" Writing becomes a counterpart to, a metaphor for, a process parallel to developmental psychology, to growing up (or not), to the awkward and painful destabilization and fragmentation with which we are clobbered as young'uns, and the subsequent long journey back toward reclaiming and redefining ourselves which takes up the rest of life. This is a fine, fine read. I loved it.
James Michael Nolan, Ph.D.

Just as colleges and universities give attention to helping first year students transition INTO the college experience, many schools are realizing the need to give more purposeful attention to helping students transition OUT of college and into the rest of their lives.

This book gives insight into students' cognitive, interpersonal, and intrapersonal development and how where students ARE in their development is not always congruent to what employers and graduate schools EXPECT students to be... and how we can help students build those bridges!

Topics included in this book can be helpful whether you are evaluating an existing Senior Year Experience program or seeking to design one. Information in various chapters can be used specifically for student affairs professionals in:

CAREER SERVICES Ch. 5: "Are College Seniors Prepared to Work?"

STUDENT ACTIVITIES/LEADERSHIP Ch. 8: "Leadership Education in the Senior Experience"

SERVICE LEARNING/RESIDENCE LIFE "Ch. 9: "Developing 'Civic Virtue' Among College Students"

ALUMNI DEVELOPMENT Ch. 14: Preparing Seniors for Roles as Active Alumni"

ACADEMIC ADVISING Ch. 11: "Creating Pathways to Graduate School"

and all faculty and student affairs educators who work with MULTI-ETHNIC STUDENTS Ch. 13: "College-to-career Transition Programs for Multiethnic Students"

The book includes a helpful list of references and a sample syllabus of a senior capstone class developed and used by the authors.

For student affairs professionals who are seeking to bridge the gap between curricular and co-curricular education on campus, this is a comprehensive, easily readable resource that makes reference to a number of colleges and universities that have successfully implemented Senior Year programs. I have searched the websites of those schools for additional ideas and information.

For readers for whom the Word is a sine qua non of religious
reflection, this is a must read. From the time of Paul Tillich to
Barbara Brown Taylor, we are invited into the homilies of insightful
minds at work. For those at Duke during the marvelous Scotsman's tenure as Dean of the Chapel and Professor of Preaching, we would have liked once more to delight in his play on words entitled "Loving the Sons of Birches". That, alas, was probably too time bound for this publication. Read these testaments, as I did, happy to have been touched by such a cloud of witnesses.

Great read! We enjoyed reading the book. It was easy and informative. I would recommend it to anyone planning on going to Seton Hall.