Choosing A College, With Help From The Web

An article in the September 20, 2006 issue of the New York Times, "Choosing A College, With Help From The Web" discussed search engines that students can use to figure out what kind of college would be right for them. I forwarded the article to DD, who immediately followed a link in the article to a site called Counselor-O-Matic, offered by Princeton Review. She was asked to enter information about the kind of school she was looking for, her interests, her grades, class rank, SAT scores, etc. The site came up with a list of "good match" schools, "reach" schools and "safety" schools, including Oberlin, Bard, Dartmouth and NYU. I'm not sure how useful lists like this are -- and this seems like a strange combination of schools -- but to the extent that they present names of schools she (and I) may not have considered otherwise, this kind of tool should be somewhat helpful.