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...children have attended six of the institutions mentioned in Lisa Birnbach 's College Book [EDUCATION, Oct. 1]. They found her guide accurate, even to such details as the University of Kansas Tan Man who suns himself on campus summer and winter. There are a few exceptions. Birnbach has miraculously moved the University of Notre Dame from South Bend to Fort Wayne...
Standard college catalogs help students decide where they will be successful. Birnbach's uninhibited, perceptive guide helps them decide where they will be successful and happy...
Move over, Lisa Birnbach. Here comes a Dudley House junior with a how-to combat acne book that publishers think will match sales of The Preppy Hand-book...
...Birnbach's effort has received mixed grades. Her mostly favorable description of Amherst strikes its public affairs director, Douglas Wilson, as "fair enough," and her in-person approach gets praise from W.W. Washburn, head of admissions at the University of Washington. But other administrators award her a D-. A spokesman for Franklin and Marshall College in Lancaster, Pa., charges that factual errors in Birnbach's treatment of his school are "just appalling." William Cotter, president of Colby College in Maine, fumes, "I can't get over how superficial and sloppy the Colby entry...
...insufficient authority. (Many Purdue students, she states, "drink, and drink heavily.") Other conclusions seem applicable to just about any place but are offered as the lowdown on particular institutions. (Parents of the students at Northwestern are "directly responsible" for pushing their children in particular career paths.) Even so, Birnbach's guide performs a certain service by focusing more than other volumes on what students should expect outside the classroom and off the campus. Moreover, she maintains, "I wrote up a lot of schools that otherwise wouldn't be heard of. That can only benefit them, no matter what...