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CHOOSING THE RIGHT COLLEGE 2004
The Whole Truth about America's Top Schools
Jeremy Beer, editor-in-chief
Introduction by William J. Bennett
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ISBN: 1-882926-98-6 (paper)
800 pages
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The most thorough essay-format college guide available, the 2004 edition of Choosing the Right College has been thoroughly revised and rewritten. It has also been expanded to include 120 of the nation's top private and public colleges and universities. As with previous editions, the editors provide candid assessments of the state of each school's academic curriculum, political atmosphere, and campus life. In this edition, students are also told which courses they can take at each school in order to provide themselves with a true core curriculum—a course of study that used to be required almost everywhere but now almost never is. This build-your-own-core feature helps make the 2004 edition more indispensable than ever for the student and parent seeking a genuine liberal arts education.
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"Choosing the Right College is by far the best college guide in America. It covers subjects not even mentioned in other college guides, but which are urgently important for parents and students to know about. This is especially so at a time when choosing the wrong college can lead not merely to disappointment but to disaster."
—Thomas Sowell, Hoover Institution, Stanford University
"Choosing the Right College is aimed at exposing the political biases of academe, the prevalence of permissive sex and the lack of core curriculums to prospective students and their parents."
—New York Times
"At last, a college guide that has the guts to go through the hallowed gates to the heart of such issues as political correctness, campus polarization, student drinking and faculty standards at colleges big and small. This guide is a must for parents who care more about their kids' integrity than about their credentials."
—Dr. Laura Schlessinger, syndicated radio talk show host
"If prospective students and their families want a critical look at what is taught at America's most powerful and celebrated schools, Choosing the Right College may be their only guide."
—World
"A godsend for anyone who wants to know how to beat the academic establishment and actually get an education."
—National Catholic Register
"American parents (and students) have long needed a reliable 'review' of our nation's universities so they can be sure they will not be supporting the systematic destruction of the values, faith, and worldview they have spent so many years building up. Choosing the Right College is the right book for them. It exposes the bad ones and confirms the good ones. My only regret is that it wasn't available as early as the sixties. Think of the administration buildings that might have been spared occupation!"
—Cal Thomas, syndicated columnist
"This guide to colleges is by far the most factually based of any I have seen. The editors have made a serious attempt to gain objective information on the colleges about which they report. This review is in striking contrast to the subjective opinions recorded by U.S. News & World Report."
—John Silber, Chancellor of Boston University
"[P]rovides as comprehensive a catalogue of the academic skies as is anywhere available…Given the encyclopedic scope of this guide, one can only stand in awe of the consistency with which its editors have been able to grasp what makes each campus tick."
—Stephen H. Balch, President, National Association of Scholars
"A valuable tool that asks more probing questions and provides far more significant answers, than the typical college guide."
—Michael Medved, film critic and syndicated radio host
"What is remarkable about ISI's offering is that it captures the tone of the academic, political, and social life of each school, as well as that school's attitude toward the traditional liberal arts."
—Crisis
"I've got children approaching college age, so I'll be consulting this useful book. I'll even do my best to get the kids to read it."
—William Kristol, editor and publisher, The Weekly Standard, and Fox News analyst
"A candid, detailed, entertaining, and thoroughly reliable account of what the top colleges have to offer, both socially and academically. It is unmatched in laying out what parents and students have a right to expect from a good college-and which colleges fall short of providing it. Identifying each college's strengths and weaknesses, the guide recommends by name many outstanding teachers and courses, while telling about politically correct but academically insubstantial departments. Definitive and indispensable."
—Christina Hoff Sommers, author of The War Against Boys: How Misguided Feminism is Harming Our Young Men
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