<p>I noticed that this year’s Princeton Review has 368 colleges instead of last year’s 366.</p>
<p>Which colleges have been added?</p>
<p>How do you know they just added two? They might have dropped 10 and added 12/
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<p>Okay, I compared the 2009 online list against my hard copy of the 2008 edition, and they seem to have dropped University of Hawaii - Manoa as well as Washington and Lee.</p>
<p>They have added CUNY - Baruch, Nazareth College (Rochester, NY) and University of Alabama at Birmingham.</p>
<p>So the net is that I am still missing one.</p>
<p>I doubt they would drop W&L. It’s a good school.</p>
<p>I doubt they would drop W&L. It’s a good school.</p>
<p>Not disagreeing, but these are their W’s for 2009.</p>
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<p>They also don’t include Earlham, which is not as surprising as Washington and Lee but generally considered a very good school – just in that W list above, there are at least a few schools that are arguably not up there with Earlham and several certainly not with W & L… Does it have to do with the colleges paying them? I’m sure it doesn’t make a difference if Yale doesn’t pay them, but perhaps at the margins it does?</p>
<p>Plus- they included Warren Wilson College which is much more obscure than Earlham although may attract overlapping students.</p>
<p>But PR has been more about the lists than solid info.
Top party schools
Dodgeball targets
etc</p>
<p>[Public</a> Affairs | What’s Excellent About Earlham](<a href=“http://www.earlham.edu/publicaffairs/content/excellent/princeton.php]Public”>http://www.earlham.edu/publicaffairs/content/excellent/princeton.php)</p>
<p>I don’t know their criteria for inclusion in their directory. </p>
<p>Obviously, what I know, means nothing. But I have certainly heard of Earlham and Washington and Lee but have never heard of Wofford or Westminster College of Salt Lake.</p>
<p>Logic and Princeton Review should not be used in the same sentence. And neither should integrity! :)</p>
<p>OK, I read somewhere (maybe in the hard copy of the 2008 book?) that some schools don’t permit the student questionnaires to be distributed – which means that school is not included in the listing/book. I dug up this info when I was surprised that U of Rochester hadn’t made the list.</p>
<p>That’s weird they dropped W&L. They would rank highly on Greek Life, drinking, etc. all while still maintaining decent academics.</p>
<p>OK, I read somewhere (maybe in the hard copy of the 2008 book?) that some schools don’t permit the student questionnaires to be distributed – which means that school is not included in the listing/book</p>
<p>That would explain it then</p>
<p>[New</a> Princeton Review Guide Profiles 361 Best Colleges](<a href=“http://www.voanews.com/english/archive/2005-08/2005-08-31-voa76.cfm]New”>http://www.voanews.com/english/archive/2005-08/2005-08-31-voa76.cfm)</p>
<p>It’s not in there–saw a hard copy at B & N. Very odd. Randolph C, Lynchburg C, and Sweet Briar are all in but no W&L.</p>
<p>W&L administration has had a long-running feud with Princeton Review. W&L sent prospectives and their parents letters regarding PR back in 2005.</p>
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<p>What’s not in the hard copy? The explanation of which schools are included in each edition? I can quote the relevant parts from the 2008 quide if you’d like – if that’s what you’re talking about?</p>
<p>CBBB, I think that Barrons means that W&L is not in the hard copy.</p>
<p>CBBBlinker, could you please tell me if Roanoke College was in last year’s PR 366?</p>
<p>The Williams entry is so riddled with inaccuracies that present a much less attractive school that I bet it wishes it had been left out!</p>
<p>northeastmom, Roanoke College was not in the 2008 edition of the PR, and, per their web site, is not in the 2009 edition either.</p>
<p>fendrock, thank you. I knew that they were not in the new edition, but I thought they might have been in the old. I guess I just thought so because I read about them in their best “regional” guide. Lots of third tier schools are not listed, so it is no surprise. Thank you for checking.</p>