<p>Bates College in Maine ranks #1 in Princeton Review's Best Value Colleges which hit bookstores today.
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Another plus for Bates is that it generally does not reduce its financial aid when students receive outside scholarships
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according to Robert Franek, vp for Publishing.</p>
<p>Who wants to bet that curmudge will add Bates to his Yankee boogie tour?</p>
<p>It's on. LOL. </p>
<p>New winner though with today's ACT results, full-ride at UNA (University of Northern Alabama, the Harvard of Tallahatchee County), tuition, fees, room and board and books, too for a 32,4.0, val. WooHoo! </p>
<p>If she keeps this up , I'll put her on e-bay.(Uh-oh. Better jump in the asbestos wear. I hear mad people. JK.)</p>
<p>Do you really want to send her to the county where "Billy Joe McAllister jumped offa Talahatchee Bridge?" <em>Where's the smilie indicating humming a Country and Western crossover tune?</em></p>
<p>jmmom, which schools are in the top ten? Are the schools chosen based on need based aid or merit aid?</p>
<p>That song was crossover before there WAS such a thing as crossover. (we are truly dating ourselves)</p>
<p>jmmom, I don't even know if there is a Tallahatchee County, I think so, but I doubted anyone would challenge me.(And I certainly don't know if UNA is there.) That song, Valley of the Dolls, and Peyton Place kept our Preacher busy for three solid fire-breathing years. We didn't need a picture show,or TV, or radio, we heard all about it on Sundays and Wednesday nights, 312 times.</p>
<p>dstark - I'll look for the link. Only have the article featuring Bates because it's practically local. But here are the top 10: [ul][<em>]Bates [</em>]New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology[<em>]BYU[</em>]Hendrix, AK[<em>]UCLA[</em>]New College of Florida[<em>]CUNY-Brooklyn[</em>]CUNY-Queens[<em>]William Jewell College, MO[</em>]Hanover[/ul] Said to be based on more than 30 factors in categories of academics, tuition, financial aid and student borrowing.</p>
<p>Oh, and there are 81 total.</p>
<p>Thanks. I am puzzled about some of the choices. Oh well.</p>
<p>This thread was worth stumbling onto just to bring back memories of Billy Jo McAlester jumping off that dang Talahatchie bridge! I am, however, learning about unknown colleges (to me anyway), ie., Bates. I am sort of regretting that S didn't visit any good ol' southern colleges.</p>
<p>...put a frog down my back at the Carroll County picture show....</p>
<p>I got another school for us cheapies out there, The Harriet Wilkes Honors College of Florida Atlantic University. A true stand alone , ground -up brand new Honors only, residential campus, dedicated faculty, auto merit. But it IS close to the beach, so it has its drawbacks. (The major one being it is smack in the middle of a commuter campus they expect will grow like kudzu.)</p>
<p>And hey, FAU got a well-known but over-rated brand new basketball coach (said the Dukie).</p>
<p>I think Bates is a very good school. But I also think that Princeton Review makes a lot of their stuff up as they get close to publishing deadlines.</p>
<p>That is one weird list.</p>
<p>What about Harper Valley PTA?</p>
<p>I think Billy Joe jumped off a bridge that's in Mississippi. UNA is in Florence, in Lauderdale County - close to the famouse Muscle Shoals recording studios which finally closed I think.</p>
<p>Better than the PR book IMHO is the Barrons book of best value colleges. The last edition came out last August and is updated about every two years. Check it out.</p>