Guide Books
By current students for prospective students
200 guides for top 200 US colleges
Each of the 200 in-depth guides is designed to help you choose
the college that fits you perfectly. Over 100,000 in circulation,
these guides are loved by students, parents and guidance counelors
- and feared by colleges and universities.
How can these guides help you?
These guides help answer important questions like:
- "Which college is the best for me?"
- "Will I be happy at the college if I decide to accept
their offer?"
- "Should I even bother applying to that college?"
To help you answer these questions, we undertook a monumental project
that evolved into College Prowler:
32,000 pages written about the top 200 colleges
Each guidebook provides a comprehensive, honest, in-depth portrayal
that is dedicated to one school. Every college is a unique
experience and therefore each college has an entire book dedicated
to it. The creation of 200 individual guidebooks was intentional
because we wanted to make sure that you were never being forced
to buy something (information on a college that is not relevant
to your search) that you didn't want or need.
55,000 students share their opinions
To maintain objectivity, we have refused investment from colleges.
Instead, we let the students tell it like it is and fill each
guide with over 300 of their quotes, both positive and negative. See
sample pages.
Students rank 200 colleges in 200 guides
Our rankings represent student happiness, prominence, and satisfaction
for each respective category. The higher the grade, the happier,
the more prominent, or the more satisfied students are with
the particular category. The ranking process is in the hands
of current students and recent graduates the entire time.
200 writers dig for the details you care about
College Prowler has quotes from students about drugs on campus,
Greek life, diversity, campus strictness and many other categories
that don't usually pop up in traditional college guides. These
quotes and categories are here to provide a helpful assessment
of what's really happening on each campus. By including
important, relevant facts and stats like the average SAT score
or the cost of a parking permit, you get a detailed look at
the unique culture of each college.
