<p>Just picked up the new 2014 edition of the Yale Daily News' "Insider's Guide To The Colleges." I immediately went to about a dozen entries of colleges which are on top of my son's scrutiny list. I began sensing "d</p>
<p>The guidebooks are good, but I think most of them rehash the same things over and over. The best is to go to the bookstore on the weekend and just read all of them.</p>
<p>PlasticMoonRain, what do you expect? Colleges do not change overnight. They don’t even change over the course of a decade. It takes many years for a university to change appreciably.</p>
<p>Libraries often have those guides available. If nothing else, if there are any local community colleges, you can be almost sure that they will have the guides in their library.</p>
<p>I really don’t find that surprising though. Very little really changes significantly from year to year in those kinds of guides.</p>
<p>But statistics for acceptance and grades DO change. That is the least they can do.</p>
<p>And if these are 8 or 9 identical entries, no, I expect there to be change with maybe a couple. You can’t address specific things/issues written about in entries and then have them ALL unchanged in the next edition. How can you talk about the same new science building being built using the exact same words two years in a row. Hey, didn’t that building get completed?</p>
<p>I expect a more active approach to updating entries. At least far more than the random samples I read through. Aren’t we entitled to at least updated statistics?</p>
<p>I’ll tell you what really annoyed me…I emailed the Fiske Guide editors about a factual error in the 2013 edition. Guess what…the same error is still in the 2014 Fiske Guide.</p>