Choosing the Right College
Choosing the Right College: The Whole Truth AbOUT America's Top Schools is an essay-style college guide published by the Intercollegiate Studies Institute. The guide was first published in 1998 by the William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, although it had been entirely researched and written by ISI staff. The third and subsequent editions have been published under the imprint of ISI Books with John Zmirak as editor.
Of the guide, syndicated-columnist Thomas Sowell wrote it was "by far the best college guide in America."
CollegeGuide.org
In 2000, the website www.collegeguide.org was established in support of the print publication to provide additional information and resources related to the college selection process. The current version of the site offers the option to purchase individual school essays, a yearlong subscription to the archive of school reviews, and self-study guides for various academic disciplines.
Published Editions
First Edition (1998)
Second Edition (2001)
Third Edition (2003)
Fourth Edition (2004)
Fifth Edition (2005)
Sixth Edition (2007)
Seventh Edition (2009)
Schools Reviewed in the Current (2009) Edition
Amherst College
Auburn University
Ave Maria University
Bard College
Barnard College
Bates College
Baylor University
Belmont Abbey College
Boston College
Boston University
Bowdoin College
Brandeis University
Brigham Young University
Brooklyn College
Brown University
Bryn Mawr College
Bucknell University
California Institute of Technology
Calvin College
Carleton College
Carnegie Mellon University
Case Western Reserve University
Catholic University of America
Centre College
Christendom College
Claremont Colleges
Colby College
Colgate University
College of the Holy Cross
College of the Ozarks
College of William and Mary
Colorado College
Columbia University
Connecticut College
Cooper Union
Cornell University
Creighton University
Dartmouth College
Davidson College
Duke University
Emory University
Fordham University
Franciscan University of Steubenville
Furman University
George Mason University
George Washington University
Georgetown University
Georgia Institute of Technology
Gonzaga University
Gordon College
Grinnell College
Grove City College
Hamilton College
Hampden-Sydney College
Harvard University
Haverford College
Hillsdale College
Indiana University
Johns Hopkins University
Kenyon College
Lafayette College
Lehigh University
Louisiana State University
Macalester College
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Middlebury College
Morehouse College
Mount Holyoke College
New Saint Andrews College
New York University
Northwestern University
Oberlin College
Occidental College
Oglethorpe University
Patrick Henry College
Pennsylvania State University
Pepperdine University
Princeton University
Providence College
Reed College
Rhodes College
Rice University
Seton Hall University
Smith College
Southern Catholic College
Southern Methodist University
Spelman College
St. John’s College
Stanford University
Swarthmore College
Texas A&M University
The Citadel
The King’s College
Thomas Aquinas College
Thomas More College of Liberal Arts
Trinity College
Trinity Western University
Tufts University
Tulane University
United States Military Academy
United States Naval Academy
University of California at Berkeley
University of California at Los Angeles
University of California at San Diego
University of California at Santa Barbara
University of Chicago
University of Colorado at Boulder
University of Dallas
University of Georgia
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
University of Kansas
University of Michigan
University of Mississippi
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
University of Notre Dame
University of Pennsylvania
University of Richmond
University of Rochester
University of Southern California
University of Texas at Austin
University of the South
University of Tulsa
University of Virginia
University of Wisconsin
Vanderbilt University
Vassar College
Villanova University
Wabash College
Wake Forest University
Washington and Lee University
Washington University in St. Louis
Wellesley College
Wesleyan University
Wheaton College
Whitman College
Williams College
Wofford College
Yale University