For other students, particularly those with older siblings, weekend activities include leafing through college guidebooks - or even visiting campuses.

There is no other way to learn about schools that is valid, certainly not reading from the various college guidebooks.

Innovative academic programs, low cost and an interdisciplinary study approach has drawn praise from national college guidebooks.

Disaster preparedness had not been a category in any of the college guidebooks we had consulted, nor had it come up during campus tours.

Chief among them is that college guidebooks fall into one of two categories: encyclopedic or experiential.

A list of college guidebooks on the Education page on Wednesday omitted three books in some editions.

"Students' Guide to Colleges" went on to be released in five annual editions, and became a nationally best-selling series of college guidebooks.

The school's quality and value for money have drawn praise from national college guidebooks.

The "Trip or Treat" Halloween party had made its way into college guidebooks.

An article last Sunday reported that Time and Newsweek magazines were planning to publish college guidebooks later this year for the first time.