colleges and universities

From the college admission experts, an essential guide on how to skillfully channel your experiences and your unique voice into a compelling essay that will grasp a reader's attention. Using technique and strategy and explaining core principles of writing along the way, the experts at The Princeton Review help break down and then build back up the process of focused writing. This guide offers hands-on activities and opportunities for self-assessment, along with tips on timeline, required length, intended audience, and annotated sample essays-all which empower students with the key tools they need to craft a winning essay.

Now in a new, more user-friendly package, this 13th edition of The Princeton Review's THE BEST VALUE COLLEGES provides readers with the guidance they need to make smart choices about how they spend their tuition dollars! College is a major financial investment ... and one that too many students enter into blindly. The Princeton Review eases that uncertainty with this guide to colleges and universities where students get the best return on their tuition investment. These 75 schools--plus an expanded list with 125 more online--offer generous financial aid, excellent academics, and valuable career-building experiences for a successful post-college outcome. THE BEST VALUE COLLEGES INCLUDES: * Profiles of our 75 top-value picks--schools that offer fantastic value, chosen based on 40+ data points, including academics, cost of attendance, financial aid, and post-grad salary figures * Online access to the full profiles for an additional 125 high value schools  * Lists covering schools with the Best Alumni Network, Best Career Placement, Top Financial Aid, and more * Starting and mid-career salary information for graduates of each school * Percentages of alumni who report having "meaningful jobs," and who majored in science/technology/engineering/math (STEM) fields * And much more!.

A guide to writing essays for applications to Ivy League colleges. Explains how to choose a topic, include the right elements, avoid common mistakes, and make the essay effective.

Profiles colleges and universities in the United States, Canada, Great Britain, and Ireland featuring information on the academic climate, social and extracurricular scenes, admissions requirements, and financial aid deadlines of each institution, and lists schools the author believes provide the best educational value.

A guide to preparing for the SAT college entrance exam, featuring full-length practice tests, practice questions, challenge problems, reading comprehension tips, student-tested strategies, and more.

A guide for preparing to take the ACT that includes ten practice tests.

Presents updated and revised advice for writing an effective college scholarship essay. Discusses how to pick a topic, create an outline, write, and edit an essay. Provides thirty real essays that won scholarships, as well as interview strategies, questions and answers with scholarship judges, twelves essays that were not accepted, and a directory of more than 100 scholarships.

A study guide for the Advanced Placement exam in psychology that includes a diagnostic test, full-length practice tests with explained answers, topic reviews, and test-taking tips.

When two high school students with different ideas about their futures meet while touring colleges, they come to value each other's point of view, and an unexpected romance unfolds.

A study guide for the Advanced Placement calculus AB exam that offers test-taking strategies from the experts, topic reviews, five full-length practice tests with detailed answer explanations, and practice questions.