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America’s Best Colleges for B Students

Very readable guidebook,  with excellent sections on how to choose a college, how to find colleges that will be a great fit, how to evaluate colleges and how to find scholarships. It offers lots of practical tips on how to organize a college search with a “college score sheet” that can be copied and used when one visits colleges. Has chapter on suggestions for what to do over summer to be ready to apply to college. Nice sample resume. Excellent section on how to explain any weaknesses on a  school transcript. In depth chapter on funding education and finding scholarships. Detailed list of colleges that are not in the usual college search books with section on “B Student Support and Success”, and “Support for Students with Learning Disabilities” along with the standard statistics from each school. Colleges are listed in alphabetical order. It would have been nice if they also had an appendix with the colleges listed by location and one by size.  Highly recommended.