| Fiske Guide to Getting Into the Right College, 3E |  | Author: Edward Fiske
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
Category: Book
List Price: $14.95
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Rating:  17 reviews
Sales Rank: 137,598
Media: Paperback
Edition: 3
Pages: 320
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.2
Dimensions (in): 8.8 x 6 x 1
ISBN: 1402209169
Dewey Decimal Number: 378.1610973
EAN: 9781402209161
Publication Date: July 1, 2007
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Product Description
Find the college that's right for you!
An AZ of admissions secrets, The Fiske Guide to Getting into the Right College takes you behind the scenes of the college application process. The expert advice and tips in this book will help you get accepted at the schools of your choice. This clear, accessible guide takes students and their parents step-by-step through the admissions process.
Learn:
--How to choose the right college
--How to get off a waiting list and get accepted
--How to write winning essays
--How to use the Internet in the application process
--How admissions officers really rank applicants
--How to interview successfully
--How to construct a successful application
--How to get the most financial aid
--And much more!
This is the best resource for helping students get into the schools of their choice.
Edward B. Fiske served for 17 years as Education Editor of The New York Times, during which time he realized that college-bound students and their families needed better information on which to base their educational choices. He wrote the bestselling annual, The Fiske Guide to Colleges, to help them.
Bruce G. Hammond was editor in chief of The Insider's Guide to the Colleges and was managing editor of four editions of The Fiske Guide to Colleges. He is the author of Discounts and Deals at the Nation's 360 Best Colleges and is the school and college expert at Parent Soup, a division of iVillage.com.
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 This book is a must! July 20, 2010
Zane Anthony
My parents have spent countless dollars on brand-name college prep guides and other application materials. They've been to all the stores and websites, purchasing what they think provide the best college guidance and support. I've looked through all twenty-two of them. They form this monstrous tower in my bedroom. Once I covered this and read it from cover to cover, I felt the most poised for the daunting task of applying. It is definitely the best book I've read about college -- the best of my library of them. Now, I can say with confidence that I know what I want out of my college experience.
Moral of the story -- DON'T let your parents spend hundreds on lots of fat, dense textbooks that claim on their covers that they will help you. Fiske's Guide to Getting Into the Right College asks the right questions. It forces you think deeply on what you really want out of your four years in college. Where do you see yourself thriving? What are your true interests? In what environment to do I learn best?
This book is easy to read, straight-forward, affordable, and one of the most comprehensive guide out there. I also highly recommend Acing the College Application: How to Maximize Your Chances for Admission to the College of Your Choice -- an important, indelibly helpful read in conjunction with this one. Students who are college bound (or even Ivy bound), read these books early in your High School career. They will literally guide you down the winding college path.
So, if you really care about your future and your happiness and prosperity in college, then read these books. After I read them, I learned that college doesn't merit all this hype when a world of opportunity will unfold no matter where you attend and your ultimate success hinges less on which college you choose, but rather on what you make of it once you are there. I know I've got four of the most invigorating and rewarding years of my life just ahead and this book makes sure I will make the most of them.
 Fiske Guide to Getting into the Right College January 30, 2010
M. Burton (Boston, MA)
I recommend this book for all parents of Juniors who are getting ready for the college hunt. Good advice and timely.
Fiske Guide to getting into the right college May 26, 2008
Dari L. Smith (Gainesville, Florida)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book gives an excellent overview of the college process from searching, interviewing, evaluating to financial aid. Very valuable is the "One hour college search" chapter which exposed us to many great colleges that we were not familiar with. I had checked this out from the library and then bought my own copy as it's definitely a great resource. If I only could read one book, this would be it. My college bound daughter will benefit from reading it.
 over rated guide December 6, 2007
Eggy (Boston MA)
3 out of 6 found this review helpful
This guide is more of the same. Basically tells you about the colleges you already know have good reputations-- ivys, and the ones just below them. Not helpful for kids who want to follow a non-liberal arts path. Not an in depth book, more just a glossary of colleges and universities. Big disappointment
 Fiske Name attached December 3, 2007
WAG (Mohawk Valley, NYS)
0 out of 3 found this review helpful
Good Purchase? - Would be a Great Purchase if More Majors were included. Sort of a back and forth college match up of information. I am not certain if I would have purchased this book - knowing what I know.
It does have the Fiske bits of helpful information!
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