Calvin Named to Princeton Review, Fiske College Guides

Summary: Calvin College has been named a top college once again by both the
Princeton Review College Guide and the Fiske Guide to Colleges.

See full story: http://www.calvin.edu/news/2009-10/princeton-review/
 
Calvin College has been included in the 2010 edition of the Princeton Review's
annual college guide: "The Best 371 Colleges." Only about 15 percent of the
nation's four-year colleges are included in the guide.

The Princeton Review depends heavily on student surveys to form the two-page
profiles of each of the 371 schools in the guide.

One student says Calvin is "not just a college with a Christian label, it is a
Christian community that challenges academically as well as spiritually."

Other students highlight the school's "spectacular research facilities,"
"sweet" study-abroad opportunities, "serious academics from a Christian
perspective," and professors that are "very approachable."

Schools in the guide are rated in a number of categories and ranked in some
unusual secondary lists. Calvin appeared in the top 20 in six of those lists,
including:

Stone-Cold Sober Schools (10)
Most Religious Students (12)
Scotch and Soda, Hold the Scotch (12)
Alternative Lifestyles Not an Alternative (13)
Got Milk? (18)
Future Rotarians and Daughters of the American Revolution (19)

The Princeton Review notes, however, that those rankings show how schools fit
in only when compared to the other schools included in the 2010 guide.

“We commend Calvin College for its outstanding academics, which is the
primary criteria for our choice of schools for the book,” said Robert Franek
of the Princeton Review.

Calvin College has also been recently recognized by the Fiske Guide to
Colleges as one of the country’s best and most interesting schools. Calvin is
one of just 330 colleges chosen to be in the Fiske guide.

For more info on Calvin and the Fiske guide, see:
http://www.calvin.edu/news/stories/briefs.html

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Received on Tue Jul 28 09:13:23 2009