Greenes' Guides to Educational Planning: Inside the Top Colleges: Realities of Life and Learning in America's Elite Colleges (Paperback)

By Howard Greene, Matthew W. Greene
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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 freshmen, 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 on

    The Top fiveadvantages 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.

    • Product Details ISBN-10: 0060929944
    ISBN-13: 9780060929947
    Published: Collins Reference, 08/01/2000
    Pages: 320
    Language: English