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Touted by nationally syndicated columnist Thomas Sowell as ?by far the best college guide in America,? ISI?s Choosing the Right College: The Whole Truth about America?s Top Schools serves as an essential reference for prospective students and their parents. Unlike other college guides, which too often read like jumbles of statistics laced with quotes from university public-relations brochures, Choosing the Right College is independently researched and written by journalists and scholars, and covers the things that truly matter most: the presence or absence of a core curriculum, the strength of distribution requirements, the prevalence of politics in the classroom, the state of free speech on campus, student living arrangements, the quality of teaching and student advising, crime, and freshman orientation. The ISI guide also provides specific advice on which professors to seek out?and which courses and departments to avoid. An annual publication, the 2006 edition of Choosing the Right College has been thoroughly revised to reflect the ongoing changes and the impact of significant controversies at each of the more than 130 featured colleges and universities?including new entries on the U.S. service academies and Southern Methodist University. And, as an exclusive feature, Choosing the Right College advises students which courses they should take at each school to provide themselves with a true core curriculum. This unique build-your-own-core feature is one more reason that Choosing the Right College has become the most valuable and trusted college guide on the market for students seeking a genuine liberal education.

?An indispensable guide to the atmosphere on various college campuses, and the presence or absence of a real curriculum, is a book titled Choosing the Right College. It is head-and shoulders above all the other college guides. Among other things, it tells you which colleges have a real curriculum, rather than a cafeteria of courses, as well as the kind of atmosphere each campus has.??Thomas Sowell, nationally syndicated columnist

?Choosing the Right College is aimed?at exposing the political biases of academe, the prevalence of permissive sex and the lack of core curriculums to prospective students and their parents.??New York Times

?At last, a college guide that has the guts to go through the hallowed gates to the heart of such issues as political correctness, campus polarization, student drinking and faculty standards at colleges big and small. This guide is a must for parents who care more about their kids? integrity than about their credentials.??Dr. Laura Schlessinger, syndicated radio talk show host

?A godsend for anyone who wants to know how to beat the academic establishment and actually get an education.??National Catholic Register

?If prospective students and their families want a critical look at what is taught at America?s most powerful and celebrated schools, Choosing the Right College may be their only guide.??World Magazine

John P. Zmirak?s writing has appeared in USA Today, Investor?s Business Daily, the Weekly Standard, the American Conservative, FrontPage Magazine, and First Things, and he has served as a commentator on national talk radio and FOX News. The author of Wilhelm Röpke: Swiss Localist, Global Economist (ISI Books, 2002), he previously worked as a senior editor at Faith & Family magazine.