<p>All, you may want to take a look at "Choosing the Right College", edited by Jeremy Beer.</p>
<p>We got the book a few weeks ago. It is a bit rightwardly slanted but it does discuss the 'atmosphere' on campus and cites specific examples of:</p>
<ul>
<li>courses they do not think highly of</li>
<li>professors that are worth taking</li>
<li>political atmosphere on campus, not just left/right but whether students feel compfortable enough to speak, etc.</li>
<li>Greek life</li>
<li>Athletics</li>
</ul>
<p>There are 'only' 125 college listed in the guide and each school has about 8 pages written about them. I have found the guide to be quite useful so far because I will use the information it provides and apply my nuetral filter to it.</p>