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Greenes' Guides to Educational Planning: Inside the Top Colleges : Realities of Life and Learning in America's Elite Colleges (Greene's Guides to Educational Planning)
Greenes' Guides to Educational Planning Inside the Top Colleges Realities of Life and Learning in America's Elite Colleges - Greene's Guides to Educational Planning Author:Howard Greene, Mathew Greene
The competition for admission to the best colleges keeps getting tougher.
There are 12.5 million college undergraduates. Fewer than 90,000 attend the top twenty-five colleges.
Ten prominent institutions -- eight Ivy League schools, Standford, and MIT -- enrolled 1 percent of all entering fresh... more »men, representing one-third of the highest academic achievers and test-takers in the nation.
There has been a substantial rise in applications to elite colleges and universities. In 1999
Harvard received 19,000 applications -- including 2,900 from high school valedictorians -- for the 1,600 spaces for the class of 2003
Stanford received more than 17,000 applications for 1,550 places; and
Princeton received 14,875 applications for 1,694 places
Based on a survey of more than 4,000 current students at twenty of the country's top colleges
Academic reputation is the number-one reason students apply to Ivy League schools, but are they prepared for the host of other factors that will affect their success on campus? Inside the Top Colleges breaks through the "halo" of prestige surrounding the nation's elite schools to reveal what the quality of education and daily life is really like on these campuses. Every institution has its strengths and weaknesses; this book examines those factors that can result in a highly positive college experience or a potentially negative one. Students speak out onThe Top five advantages of an elite education
Intellectual confidence
Foundation for future self-education
New intellectual and social perspectives
Social connections
Business/career connections
The top five student suggestions
Reduce class size
Increase diversity
Increase faculty accessibility
Provide better counseling
Review core curriculum
At all these colleges, students complained about the stress of the workload and the cost.« less