Profiles of American Colleges: Includes FREE ACCESS to Barron's web-based college search engine (Barron's Profiles of American Colleges)

o 5 Towns 42%
o College of Aeronautics 10%
o Dominica College 46%
o D ' Youville College 60%
o Hartwick and Hilbert-min
o Mannes College-Min
o Marymount Manhattan- Min
o Keoka, Excelsior and Molloy-Min
o Webb Institute

The book is a solid value for any student seeking quality
information about a plethora of collegiate programs


Look No Further   March 3, 2003
A Teacher (California, USA)
5 out of 55 found this review helpful

If you are looking for the best kept secret in American colleges, look no further than West Point. And, if you want to know why, this guidance councillor says you should read "West Point: Character Leadership Education" by Norman Thomas Remick. End of story. Period.


Look No Further   March 3, 2003
A Teacher (California, USA)
0 out of 39 found this review helpful

If you are looking for the best kept secret in American colleges, look no further than West Point. And, if you want to know why, this guidance councillor says you should read "West Point: Character Leadership Education" by Norman Thomas Remick. End of story. Period.


One of the Better Ones   November 19, 2004
Darshan (Houston, TX USA)
13 out of 13 found this review helpful

I'm not sure there's any specific reason, but it seems that counselors trust the information in Barron's more than other guides, but it may have to do with the fact that it's been around for almost thirty years. The CD-rom is pretty helpful for searching for schools by major, by location, by price tag and several other variables.

The problem with listing just about every four year college is that you're not going to have much space for in-depth description. The entries are dry but factual and makes comparisons very easy. Noticeably there are many schools that don't list their SAT medians in Barron's when the information can be found in other books such as Princeton Review's. My suspicion is that Barron's is the one being honest -- the precise information isn't being made available. However, I have to admit I buy the other guides also to see what scores they are reporting anyway.

If a student isn't considering one of the top 350 or so schools or wants more choices than most books offer, then he or she probably needs a book such as this. Frankly, if the book and software are available at a library I might sooner suggest looking at it there, and then buying a more in-depth guide such as Fiske, Princeton Review or Barron's own guide to the "best" colleges as this book may frustrate high school seniors who want some sort of opinion from the college students themselves instead of just statistics their parents want to know.