Best/Worst College Books

spaceball519
Sun, 31 Dec 2006 22:36:56 +0000

This might not be the best place to post this, but I was wondering what are some of your favorite/least favorite college guide books(To clarify, I am talking about Fiske, Princeton Review, etc, not publications put out by colleges)

I have always been a fan of the Fiske guides, as well as the US News publication. By far, by far the worst I have seen is “Choosing the Right College”, which I think is put out by ISI. It is so fundamentaly biased that it seriously borders on being racist/sexist/homophobic/bigoted in general. Any school that offers classes that focus on non-Western cultures is seen as “pandering to liberals”, and nearly every good LAC(with the exception of schools such as Claremont Mckenna) get labeled as bastions of communism and homosexuality.

It’s almost funny how blatently politcally incorrect it is, not to mention poorly written.

What are your opinions on the best and worst college books?