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[quote=Anonymous]Fiske remains pretty useful as an overall guide to colleges. I wish there was a contemporary equivalent to The Official Preppy Handbook from the 80s. But publishers seem scared of opinionated takes these days, so there's nothing.

As for costs, every college has a Net Price Calculator on their websites. So you can get an idea from there. And those numbers are really variable if you're a normal middle class family. In general, the top private schools are cheaper than lower ranked schools. Don't be intimidated by a $95,000 price tag if you're middle class and applying to Princeton, Rice, MIT, Stanford, Northwestern, Vanderbilt, Brown, Penn, Williams, Bowdoin, and so on. Tuition is basically free if your family earns less than $200,000. You just need to get in.

What I would encourage every young high school student to do is to do well on the PSAT. Study for that thing. There are so many scholarships that depend on that score. Do well on that and that's a free ride at Alabama, which is a perfectly good school. It will be similar elsewhere.

A really good middle class student is going to have all sorts of options that are affordable. [/quote]

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