college choice

Offers advice to high school seniors on how to begin the process of selecting and getting into college, discussing self-assessment, admissions testing, the college visit, the essay and application, and the interview.

A guide to accessing college information through the World Wide Web, discussing the advantages of doing on-line research, looking at the types of information available, and providing selected site addresses.

Profiles 376 colleges considered to be the best based on polls of students, and ranks them within sixty-two categories, such as academics, administration, quality of life, politics, demographics, town life, extracurriculars, and the social scene.

Profiles 150 colleges in the United States that offer reasonable tuition and first-rate education, including both public and private schools.

Provides detailed profiles of over fourteen hundred accredited public and private colleges and universities in the United States with information on tuition, financial aid, academic majors, student employment, student diversity, and much more.

Profiles over 1,900 two-year U.S. junior and community colleges, providing details on their student populations, majors, special study programs, library holdings, computers on campus, student life, athletics, standardized tests, costs, financial aid, application options and deadlines, and admissions contacts.

Profiles more than three hundred colleges and universities, in North America and six in Canada and Great Britain, describing each school's physical environment, academics, athletics, social scene, housing, and admission policies, and includes a listing of forty-nine schools as "best buys" for 2009.

A step-by-step guide to writing powerful college admission essays that provides information on different writing strategies, the most common writing mistakes, and the best topics to write on.

Discusses opportunities for joining cheerleading squads, dance and drill teams, and marching bands in college, and looks at scholarships and other benefits available to members of these activities.

Owen Griffiths, a seventeen-year-old outsider, learns to find his own way to a future in science through a friendship with a girl whose life is dedicated to music.