App Description

From the #1 bestselling college guide comes the Fiske Interactive 2016 app. Search smarter, explore easily, and interact faster with information you can trust on 320+ of the very best colleges and universities. Find the right fit for you with “the best college guide you can buy” (USA Today).

How can you know what a college is really like without being there? Would you fit in? Is it the right choice for you?

For more than 30 years, the FISKE GUIDE TO COLLEGES has been helping students, parents, and educators answer these questions, without setting foot on campus. Now, the Fiske Interactive College Guide brings you every aspect of the book—plus much more—in an app!

Featuring 320+ exclusive Fiske profiles that show you “WHAT’S THIS SCHOOL REALLY LIKE?” including:

√ In-depth descriptions of campus life and culture, from academic rigor and strong programs to quirky traditions and the social scene
√ Fiske’s trademark academic, social, and quality of life ratings
√ Quotes from current students
√ Fast facts and key stats on size, test scores, acceptance rates, financial aid, and more

“Fiske provides the most thorough, accurate, and objective descriptions of campus culture and communities. It’s my go-to guide book.”—Director of College Counseling, Pennsylvania

College is a big decision. This easy-to-use, convenient app is your on-the-go companion to make your college search successful, not stressful.

BEYOND-THE-BOOK FUNCTIONALITY
√ Customize your search with advanced search, bookmarking, and list-building features
√ Add your own notes to each school
√ Plan your campus tour with built-in map function and full-color photos
√ Discover more options via links to similar schools (“overlaps”)
√ Email admissions departments or jump to college websites directly from the app

MAKE LISTS TO NARROW DOWN YOUR SEARCH
√ Flag schools you’ll want to look at again
√ Bookmark the schools you want to visit
√ Build lists of your “Likely Schools,” “Probable Schools,” and “Reach Schools” to stay organized

EXPAND YOUR COLLEGE SEARCH

For each college, Fiske Interactive exclusively provides “Overlap schools,” schools with which the college has the most applications in common. If you’re already interested in a particular institution, check out its overlaps—you’ll probably like the schools with which it competes too.

BROWSE THE 300+ BEST AND MOST INTERESTING SCHOOLS

Do you already have specific college criteria in mind? Or are you wide open to all options? Fiske Interactive has been created so you can use it how you want to use it. Browsing, searching, and bookmarking are all easy to do.

SEARCH THE ENTIRE FISKE GUIDE

The advanced search function lets you search and filter by the criteria that matter to you most, such as location, size, strongest programs, Fiske ratings, or just a keyword.

WHAT MAKES FISKE’S COLLEGE RATINGS DIFFERENT?

Since 1982, the Fiske Guide to Colleges has been conducting in-depth evaluations and student satisfaction surveys on the top colleges and universities. Completely updated every year, it is the only guide to offer real feedback from students and schools, filtered through the honest assessment of Edward B. Fiske, former education editor of the New York Times and a pioneer in the study of higher education. The independent, advertisement-free annual guide has become a standard part of college admissions literature and is now the country’s bestselling college guide.

College Countdown website

http://www.collegecountdown.com/store/fiske-interactive-online.html

Fiske Interactive College Guide Support

http://www.sourcebooks.com/apps

NOTE:
If you have purchased a Fiske Interactive College Guide iPad app from a previous year and encounter a bug, please contact us and we will do our best to assist you. Thank you!

iPad Screenshots

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App Changes

  • February 10, 2016 Initial release