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International Student Handbook 2010 (International Student Handbook of Us Colleges)
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Product Description
The International Student Handbook 2010 is the only book exclusively for foreign students! It gives the “international profile” for 2,900 colleges, covering financial aid, Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) requirements, housing, and special services for international students. Includes step-by-step guidelines on how to prepare for and apply to colleges in the United States, find financial aid, and obtain a student visa. An appendix lists Education USA advising centers around the world, where students can go locally for more information.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #400711 in Books
- Published on: 2009-07-21
- Released on: 2009-07-21
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Paperback
- 400 pages
Features
- ISBN13: 9780874478501
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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The College Board, a not-for-profit membership association, connects students to college success and opportunity through major programs and services in college admissions, guidance, assessment, financial aid, enrollment, and teaching and learning. Among its best-known programs are the SAT®, the PSAT/NMSQT®, and the Advanced Placement Program® (AP®). Students, parents, educators, and librarians recognize the College Board as a source of expertise on SAT and CLEP® test preparation, college admissions, and financial aid. The College Board publishes the bestselling The Official SAT Study Guide™, the College Handbook, the Book of Majors, and other books that help students prepare for college, research their options, and succeed in higher education. It also maintains the popular collegeboard.com Web site, which is visited by more than 4.5 million unique visitors per month.
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DON'T BUY IT - NOT WORTH THE $$$
DON'T BUY IT - NOT WORTH THE $$$
For a CollegeBoard book, the 2010 International Student Handbook is a disappointment. I am a high school teacher and my family hosts an international student that will be entering college Fall 2010. I ordered this book with the expectation that it would provide easy access to information that is often difficult to get. I was wrong...
The first section consists of marginally useful information that has been inflated to 45 pages through the use of LARGE HEADINGS, LARGE TEXT FONTS, and liberal use of
W H I T E S P A C E.
Here's some of the useful information for an international student, "Be sure you understand U.S. currency (bills and coins)... If possible, take $150 in U.S. currency in small denominations ($1, $5, $10, $20) for use on arrival. Do not keep all the cash in one place." This reads like a bad freshman essay that was started five minutes before the deadline. The professor would give this section a failing grade!!!
The largest section is a 133 page directory of 2,800 undergraduate institutions in the US, sorted by name with URL, admissions address, fax, email and phone number. All of this information is available for FREE on the CollegeBoard and multiple other College Search web sites.
I held out hope that the next largest section, 120 pages of college statistical data might be useful. Organized by state, this table shows institutional control (private/public), degrees offered (associate/bachelors), number of undergrads and international students enrolled, tests required (SAT/SAT Subject/ACT/TOEFL), paper-based TOEFL scores (minimum/average), application deadline/fee, academic year costs, etc. The only really useful info here was the availability of International Financial Aid.
More important to note is what's MISSING from this handbook:
Percentage data on the number of international students
SAT and ACT scores for the middle 50% of international freshmen
and TOEFL Internet-Based Test (iBT) scores
The remainder of the handbook is a grab bag of tables:
International undergraduate student enrollment (8 pages sorted) - Houston Community College System (TX) at the top with 4,238 students, the majority listed have less than 50 international undergrads.
Total financial aid for international undergrad students (3 pages sorted) - Harvard at the top with $20.8 million to SUNY CAT at Cobleskill, NY with $500
Colleges where SAT Subject Tests are required or recommended (1 page)
Colleges offering Credit/placement for IB (6 pages)
Colleges offering Credit/placement for AP (8 pages)
Colleges with EST programs on campus (5 pages)
Colleges with Special housing for international students (1.5 pages)
Colleges by size and type and last but not least a 20-page listing of EducationUSA Advising Centers
The bottom line is, the 2010 International Student Handbook isn't worth $31.95 (cover price), $21.09 (what I paid) or even half that much.
I'm paying the shipping cost to return it.
Trash!! DO NOT BUY IT!!
I have to say that it is trash!!
What it includes are either totally useless or what you may easily find in the internet simplily by a few clicks.
It contains a full list(over half of the book)to list all the address of the admission offices of EACH college and university!I paid $ just to buy some papers? I can find it all in the internet and trying to find what I need in the book will actually consume more time.
I also doubt the figures in the book. It said that all figures showed in the book are 2008's. I CAN FIND 2010'S FIGURE IN THE INTERNET AND DO NOT NEED TO PAY ANYTHING!
Inclusing a full list of ESL progrmas in the book, who will need that list?? You think I come from MOON?
To be honest,don's buy it, coz it doesn's even worth a penny.
