Looking Beyond the Ivy League: Finding the College That's Right for You

by Loren Pope

Overview

The celebrated book that revolutionized the way Americans choose colleges-now fully revised and updated

An invaluable guide with virtually no competition, this book helped to establish Loren Pope as one of the nation's most respected experts on the college application process. Now fully revised and updated, Looking Beyond the Ivy League offers a step-by-step guide to selecting the right institution, a checklist of specific questions to ask when visiting a college, the secrets to creating good applications and good applicants, and much more. With as few as one-third of college students remaining at the institution they entered as freshmen, finding the right college is harder than ever before. This book makes it easier for students and their parents.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781101201886
Publisher:	Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date:	12/18/2007
Sold by:	Penguin Group
Format:	eBook
Pages:	288
File size:	464 KB
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Loren Pope was education editor of the New York Times in the 1950s. In 1965 he opened the College Placement Bureau in Washington, D.C., to help families of college--bound students make informed choices. He is the author of Looking Beyond the Ivy League and has written numerous articles about the college application proc

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"The best thing written about admissions in the last twenty years."
-David A. Dudley, former admissions director at Columbia University and the Illinois Institute of Technology

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"The best thing written about admissions in the last twenty years."
-David A. Dudley, former admissions director at Columbia University and the Illinois Institute of Technology

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