The Best Northeastern Colleges: 218 Outstanding Schools to Consider

If you live in the Northeastern US, or want to attend college there, then this is the book you should buy first. It offers the best of the best public & private colleges in that area. Granted, it doesn't contain all colleges in the area, but most of them. The book includes the best from Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, Connecticut, Rhode Island and Massachusetts. As someone who wants to attend college in one of these states, I feel that this book gave me valuable insight on some of the colleges that I have interest in. (On a side note, it should be known that private colleges outnumber the public, which makes sense, after all it is the "Best".

I liked this guide because it focused on particular regions of the country -the Northeast, and because it surveyed students on campus life. There are particular colleges that I am looking at for one of my former students and this guide is a good way for me to know more about them and for him to read also. We are in the Rochester, NY area so we focused on that area. I found out that SUNY Geneseo, my former alma mater, is still heavily focused on alcohol as it was when I went to school. A very disappointing factor for me. I was a non-drinker and life could be hell around drinkers, that is something I need to tell my student, a non-drinker. Brockport has some advantages but Nazareth College is looking more and more attractive. I liked the high interest ratings the professors got and the 95% rating of campus life, without being a drinking college. I can't wait to share this guide with my former student so he can get more information on colleges.