A Care.com Book Café Recommendation from Caitlin, our Summer Intern:

The entire college search process can be overwhelming, and after a while every school can start to look exactly the same.  It can be hard to remember what you liked about each school you visited and more importantly, what you didn’t like.  Princeton Review’s The Best 361 Colleges can help jog your memory when all the campus tours have started to run together in your mind.

This book provides a detailed academic profile for each college or university, but also touches on other important aspects of college life, such as the social scene and extra curricular activities offered. The Best 361 Colleges gives insight into everything from parties to politics.

Although college websites provide similar information, this book is more useful because it gives an unbiased look at both the good and the bad aspects of each school.  It’s also useful when you want to compare colleges side by side.  The Best 361 Colleges does a great job of defining each school in a way that is relevant for both a stressed-out high school student and their stressed-out parents.