Colleges That Change Lives: 40 Schools You Should Know About Even If You're Not A Straight-A Student

The Story

In this revised and expanded guide, College Placement Bureau Director Loren Pope profiles forty colleges that excel at developing potential, values, initiative, and risk-taking in a wide range of students. This new edition includes a revised group of colleges and for the first time addresses the issues of home schooling, learning disabilities, and single-sex education. Pope encourages students to be hard-nosed consumers when visiting colleges, and shows how the college experience can enrich every young person's life, whether they are 'A', 'B', or 'C' students.Included in the profiles are: -- Evaluations of each school's program and 'personality'-- Interviews with undergraduates, professors, and deans-- Information on what happens to the graduates and what they think of their college experience.