<p>Can anyone recommend tools for finding colleges that might be a good fit for me? Are there good websites out there? which guide books are the best?</p>
<p>you could do the Counselor-O-Matic at princetonreview.com</p>
<p>US News Best Colleges
Fiske Guide
Princeton Review Best ### Colleges
College Board Index of Majors
Rugg's Recommendations
Gourman Report (out of print)</p>
<p>or ask the knowledgeable people who post on this board...tell us what you are looking for and tell us about yourself</p>
<p>check out this search engine on the Carnegie Foundation website:
<a href="http://www.carnegieclassification-preview.org/%5B/url%5D">http://www.carnegieclassification-preview.org/</a></p>
<p>Type in the name of a college that you like. Check off the characteristics that you want to match. The search engine will give you a list of colleges with similar ccharacteristics.</p>
<p>Umm <a href="http://www.myroad.com%5B/url%5D">www.myroad.com</a></p>
<p>Highly recommend the $15.00 US News and World report ONLINE subscription.
Easily searchable, with very helpful side by side comparisons lists you can print , and useful top 100 lists.
It has much more data than the current US News and World report magazine.</p>
<p>Check out the College MatchMaker on CollegeBoard.com:
<a href="http://apps.collegeboard.com/search/index.jsp%5B/url%5D">http://apps.collegeboard.com/search/index.jsp</a></p>
<p>Also, Barron's Best Buys in College Education is a pretty good book, too.</p>
<p>If you want to do some general browsing of colleges from state to state, UTexas provides a site that links you to the websites of colleges by state <a href="http://www.utexas.edu/world/univ/state/%5B/url%5D">http://www.utexas.edu/world/univ/state/</a></p>