Best/Worst College Books

MarathonMan88
Sun, 31 Dec 2006 22:44:22 +0000

I was in Border’s yesterday and realized that no one can even hope to have a grasp of the whole spectrum of college guide books–there must be at least 50 on the shelves of Border’s alone. That said, I think that Fiske is the among the best–it’s well written; seems to make some effort at periodic updates; and the opening 2-3 sentence summaries are often masterpieces of distilling things to their essence. USNews (on-line is more complete than the hard copy) is probably the best I’ve seen for sheer data.