<p>How accurate do you find its portrayal of schools to be? Can I rely on it to help me narrow down my college list?</p>
<p>Obviously for any school I'm seriously considering, I'll visit if I can, peruse their website, send for more info, etc. But how do I even know which ones to consider, let alone 'seriously' ? Does anyone have experience with this book as a guide?</p>
<p>the Princeton review bases its rankings solely on student feedback, so it gives you an impression of what students feel their school is like. Like all other college rankings/review books, though, I would take it with an enormous grain of salt.</p>
<p>I think the Princeton Review is very weak. I would go with Fiske.</p>
<p>I used Princeton Review in the very beginning stages of my search, and barely used it circa end of my junior year/start of senior year. The little section where they use student quotes is fun and entertaining, but shouldn't be considered anything more than anecdotal. Besides, you can get all that info on PR's website - you just need a free account. Go with Fiske.</p>
<p>Another vote for Fiske.</p>
<p>Fiske is solid, but too detatched from the campus. You almost feel like Fiske doesn't really get a feel for what goes on at a school. I like the PR book pretty well, I actually used both PR and Fiske in addition to that yellow one with the coffee cup on the front that is student written. If you use Amazon you can get guidebooks that are like a year old for very little $ and use those, then have one new guidebook with the most up to date stats etc. The descriptions change little from year to year so that's a great way to save $ and get a lot of info.</p>
<p>Students' Guide To Colleges, that's what it's called. Disadvantage is that it only has 100 elite schools, but you get three student written entries for each school, I loved it.</p>