Good "inside scoop" books?

College Search & Selection
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<p>I'm afraid CP's "Off the Record" books may be too inaccurate.
Are there any books I can buy that will tell the real story about what different colleges are like?
I know that CC is probably my best tool, but I'd like to buy some reading material to supplement it. :)</p>

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<p>i like this book–there’s 3 student accounts for every college in the book
<a href=“http://www.amazon.com/Students-Guide-Colleges-SchoolsWritten-Experts/dp/0143035584[/url]”>http://www.amazon.com/Students-Guide-Colleges-SchoolsWritten-Experts/dp/0143035584&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>^ I second that.
There is also The Insider’s Guide to Colleges 2008. Past years are helpful as well. :)</p>

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<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/5117504-post8.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/5117504-post8.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>CP is actually supposed to be one of the most accurate ones.</p>

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<p>Yeah Insider’s Guide is good.</p>

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<p>CP does a pretty good job. Fiske isn’t necessarily an inside-scoop book, but it does an incredible job – whenever I visit somewhere, I look and compare it to Fiske, and they’re always spot-on.</p>

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<p>Yeah, I’ve got Fiske and the Insider’s guide, and both have a lot of valuable information that the other doesn’t; Fiske tends to focus more on academics, while Insider’s has a lot of in-depth info on social life, dorms, etc. I recommend both.</p>

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<p>I personally don’t like Insider’s Guide very much. They don’t bother fact-checking even simple things like names of nearby stores (I go to school in Richmond, VA, and there is a huge chain called Ukrop’s here, and they said it was called U-Crops. Seriously.) I also feel they simplify things too much.</p>