<p>I personally prefer the Princeton Review and particulary like their web site. It has a lot of great easily accessible objective data that I can look at wherever I am near a computer on the Internet.</p>
<p>Fiske most closely mirrored our experiences.</p>
<p>I would advise not consulting the Insider's Guide to Colleges, if only because it's littered with missing information and typos.</p>
<p>Fiske is recognized as the best college guide, though nothing really beats a visit, a tour, and the opinions of current students.</p>
<p>Here's a post from an earlier thread with a list of books: </p>
<p>We always come back to Fiske-I have stashes of the various guides, and Fiske seems to capture the essence of each college best.</p>