Rate Your Favorite College Viewbooks

<p>I was just going through all the viewbooks I collected throughout the year, and I must say, their quality is very different. What were some of the best/worst viewbooks you had from colleges this year and why?</p>

<p>Best was probably Amherst, just liked the paper quality..worst St.johns.</p>

<p>I loved Middlebury's--absolutely beautiful.</p>

<p>WILLIAMS</p>

<p>very clever and entertaining :D</p>

<p>I find it interesting that all of you said LACs had the best.</p>

<p>University of Chicago's viewbook was amazing, as was MIT's. The photos were absolutely breathtaking and quirky!</p>

<p>Yay, I love viewbooks! U Penn's was packaged pretty amazingly. I loved Columbia's too, partly because it had the tearout middle section with all the basic facts and partly because of the sweet photos and stories. U Chicago's was really cool too.</p>

<p>Before applying NYU sent me this thick book thingy that looked pretty expensive.</p>

<p>I second murkywater. The UChic book is really well put together. They put a new spin on it, as it's portrayed as more of a storybook. Lots of cool pictures and nice layout design. Seriously, if you haven't seen it, I recommend signing up to UChic's mailing list (they don't bombard you with mail, either -- I've only gotten this from them in the past few months).</p>

<p>Really? U Chicago sent me postcards for years. One of them was a coloring contest and I finished it and forgot to mail it. Then there was lots of "here, give us an intriguing question" things. I kinda wonder if I would've gotten in, rather than being waitlisted, if I'd been an active participant in all those mailings.</p>

<p>Probably not (I doubt they keep track of it).</p>

<p>Amherst, I think....spiral-bound and shiny lol
NYU's brochures were pretty good too...I don't know I got so many brochures there's literally a box of them sitting in my garage.</p>

<p>Oh UVa had a pretty nice viewbook.</p>

<p>well now that i think about it, my top two schools had the best viewbooks.
Middlebury's featured such appealing pictures that i applied to Discover Midd thinking that i would at least get to see a VERY pretty part of the nation.
UChicago's just FELT intellectual. and it was nice to see real life. </p>

<p>beloit's came with stickers of random words, so that was cool!</p>

<p>Reed's viewbook is awesome! although I was not very acquainted with the college before, the viewbook accomplished its task of letting people what a great place Reed is</p>

<p>I disliked Northwestern's and Johns Hopkins' because they were so large that they did not fit in my file cabinet. Stupid, I know. I really liked Penn's as well, the box that surrounded the actual viewbook was a nice touch.</p>