July 15, 2008 == MEDIA ADVISORY
Full story see http://www.calvin.edu/news/2008-09/princeton-review/
Calvin College has been included in the 2009 edition of The Princeton Review's annual college guide Best 368 Colleges. Only about 15 percent of the nation's four-year colleges are included in the guide which was first published in 1992.
The Princeton Review's annual guide depends heavily on student surveys to both form the two-page profiles of each of the 368 schools included and to create a series of unusual secondary lists. Calvin's profile leads with what the college's undergrads told the Princeton Review.
The books calls Calvin not just a college with a Christian label, but rather a Christian community that challenges academically as well as spiritually. Calvin's two-page profile also makes note of the resources available to students at Calvin, including spectacular research facilities.
As for the always-popular, and often quirky, lists, Calvin made seven for 2009, including:
Stone-Cold Sober Schools (10)
Scotch and Soda, Hold the Scotch (11)
Most Religious Students (12)
Alternative Lifestyles Not an Alternative (15)
Don't Inhale (15)
Got Milk? (16)
Future Rotarians and Daughters of the American Revolution (17)
The Princeton Review notes, however, that those rankings are not a comparison vs every school in the country, but rather denote where schools fit in when compared only to the other schools in the 2009 guide.
"In our opinion, each school in this book is first-rate academically," said Robert Franek of the Princeton Review.
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