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Which School Is Right for You?
Choosing the right college isn't a science; don't take anyone's advice - including ours - without considering all your options and resources. In fact, you might have a few schools in mind already. Your father wants you to go to Cal State; your mother went to the Florida State University; someone once told you something nice about Michigan; and your counselor thinks you should look at Duke. On the other hand, you might just feel completely clueless and alone in this whole college search game.

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Don't panic! We can help you sort out all of the information and make some intelligent choices about where you might like to spend these four great years of your life. PrincetonReview.com has many helpful resources that you can use to narrow down your choices, learn whether the students are really happy at that school, and figure out whether your only chance of being accepted is by presidential order. It doesn't matter if you decide that you want to ski on the weekends, love the laid-back atmosphere, and relate to what the students have to say at University of Vermont, if you don't have the grades and stats, you won't get in. So, this search and match process is very important to save time and find a school within your reach that still scores high on your own selectivity chart. (Remember: you're choosing a school just as much as they are choosing you.) So, let's get started...

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Articles
We have many articles written by the experts to help you with the college search. Yeah, reading can be a bore, but this is an important decision, one that you should be well-informed about when making. You can find some articles above in the "Related Links" section. You can also check out our entire advice index. Whether you're a transfer student or still in high school, you'll find several other informative articles on the site that you should read and learn from as you begin the search.

Search
Spend some time searching for schools using Counselor-O-Matic. Using Counselor-O-Matic, you'll simply tell us about you: from your grades, to your involvement in and out of school, to your scores on those dreaded standardized tests, to what you want in a college. Submit your answers and Counselor-O-Matic will give you a list of up to 15 different schools: five Safety Schools that you'll most likely get into, five that are a Good Match for you, and five Reach Schools that your getting into will require a little luck. After you use Counselor-O-Matic once, you'll also be able to use the "What Are My Chances At This School" button on the School Profile pages to compare a school against your Counselor-O-Matic answers.

Students Say
We survey the students at the Best 366 Colleges in the US to see what they have to say about college life. Click on the "Students Say" link from the individual college pages after you do a search for the school, or go to the rankings section of the site to get an overview of what students have to say about everything from quality of profs to the quality of parties at the Best 366 Colleges.

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