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On Choosing the Right College

John Zmirak appears on InsideAcademia.tv this week to talk about his role as editor of Choosing the Right College, a review of America’s top 140 colleges and universities, and CollegeGuide.org from the Intercollegiate Studies Institute.

What makes a college overpriced? How do you avoid (or find) “party” schools? Where are the very best and worst schools? These questions and more are answered.

You can subscribe to InsideAcademia.tv on YouTube to receive each week’s episode.

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   08/02/11 11:02

Despite the criminally bad video captures above, you really should visit ISI Books and buy the excellent College Guide, if you have children interested in attending college in the next 3-4 years. It is an invaluable resources for examining schools that goes far beyond the one-size-fits-all USNews approach.

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   08/02/11 18:09

Those of us who happened to be at the top of our class by any standardized measures, but who weren't well-connected, or wealthy, or athletes, or of the correct race and gender (depending on generation), think that those of you who "choose" your college are idiots.

We didn't have a choice. Instead, colleges that had an average admissions BELOW our talent (Harvard, Yale, Stanford) chose not to admit us. For that matter, our top-end state colleges didn't bother to recruit us.

And that, my friends, is why the nation is in such sad shape.

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