America’s Best Kept College Secrets!
America's Best Kept College Secrets is an affectionate profile of more than seventy colleges and universities across the country that share four important characteristics:1. Each one is a superior institution- exciting, challenging and welcoming.
2. Each one has an excellent reputation and is highly regarded by those who know colleges.
3. Each one accepts more than 60% of applicants and retains more than 85% of enrolled students.
4. Each one is a college or university of quality interested in applicants from outside its region.
This lively and informal guide offers an uncommonly candid appraisal of the college's culture - what it feels like to live and work on each campus. Profiles include large universities, tiny colleges, comprehensive universities, liberal arts colleges, and institutes of technology.
About Peter Arango
Peter Arango has been working in the field of college admissions for forty years, during which time he has counseled hundreds of students and families. He is an editor of the Houghton Mifflin Guide to U.S. Colleges and Universities, a contributor to numerous publications, and a frequent presenter at workshops on preparing for the college search. Currently, Peter Arango lives in Carpinteria, California where he holds the Littlefield Chair in Humanities at Cate School.
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The Final Additions-
Posted on March 13, 2012 | No CommentsI’m gathering as much data as possible of the current admissions season and should be able to grab the final stats at most of the colleges profiled this next time... -
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Posted on February 15, 2012 | No CommentsThe proposed list of exceptionally well regarded colleges and universities continues to grow. Conversations around the counseling world have brought three into sudden prominence: Randolph College – formerly Randolph-Macon Woman’s... -
Who are the NEXT Best Kept Secrets – 2012?
Posted on January 26, 2012 | No CommentsIt’s time to update America’s Best Kept College Secrets; the new edition will be coming out this summer, but for now… the voting can begin! I have hot prospects I...
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University of San Francisco – San Francisco, California
From America’s Best Kept College Secrets – “It is to the university’s credit that an institution of this size is often referred to by undergraduates as a “small school.” Graduates…
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Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology – Terre Haute, Indiana
From America’s Best Kept College Secrets – “Rose-Hulman declares itself, “the nation’s top undergraduate engineering, science, and mathematics college.” That sets a pretty high standard, and yet from all accounts,…
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Marlboro College – Marlboro, Vermont
From America’s Best Kept College Secrets- “If you’ve done any reading about colleges, you have probably encountered a short paragraph about Marlboro; it is an anomaly – a tiny college…
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Whitworth University – Spokane, Washington
This from Whitworth’s web site: Whitworth’s Costa Rica Center sits on a 27-acre property in the hills above Costa Rica’s central valley. Just to the north of the property is…
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Pacific Lutheran University – Parkland, Washington
From the PLU website: Summer is always a great time to play the PLU University Golf Course. And this summer may be the best time of all – because it…
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U. of the South – Sewanee, Tennessee
From the Sewanee website: The Sewanee Symphony Orchestra, providing the accompaniment to a song by Birmingham band Act of Congress, appears on a new recording project called The Wind Will…