1. "Untangling the Ivy League" (2008)- Gives Princeton its highest academic rating. One full notch above Yale and Harvard and certainly above all others in the Ivy League.

2. The Princeton Review (unaffiliated with Princeton University) - In its "College Campus Visit Guide" (7th edition) it refers to Princeton as, "truly gorgeous, offering the best undergraduate education in the country".

3. "Insider's Guide to the Colleges" (2008) - (An annual college guide publication written by Yale's Daily News Staff Editors). The publication lists Princeton as the top school for undergraduate attention/focus. Left out of the running was Yale itself.

http://www.amazon.com/Insiders-Guide-Colleges-2008-34th/dp/0312366892

4. "All American Colleges" (2008) - In ranking "Top Schools for Conservatives, Old-Fashioned Liberals, and People of Faith" the college guide book named Princeton as its choice school among the Ivies as well as other schools.

http://www.isi.org/books/bookdetail.aspx?id=f265b43c-5b48-4a57-b740-2fd310414b27

5. College Prowler (2008) - College Powler publishes individual college guides for each of the country's more well known schools. College Prowler gives Princeton the highest academic rating in the Ivy League and nation, Both Harvard and Yale are ranked below. The ranking is based largely on the opinions of those attending the schools being ranked.

http://www.collegeprowler.com/find/guides-by-ranking.aspx?section=Academics

6. "Choosing the Right College" 2008 - 2009 edition (an ISI Guide)

Subtitle: The Whole Truth about America's Top Schools

This newest college guide, touted as the nation' most comprehensive, promotes Princeton as the nation's best undergraduate university and "most exclusive club" among universities. Further referring to Princeton as "the undergraduate's Ivy" being "almost always rated the number one school in America".

Princeton is described as being "as close to the intellectual ideal for undergraduates as one can find in a top research university".

http://www.amazon.com/Choosing-Right-College-Americas-Schools/dp/0802845371

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=681704&forum_id=1#8600299)

It is interesting how Princeton comes out on top whether the decision is being made by administrators, researchers or the students themselves. I have have always believed Princeton occupied a unique position in higher education. It has the undergrad focus of the best LACs and the facilities and resources of a preeminent research institution. Not an easy thing to pull off!

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=681704&forum_id=1#8602549)

Another criteria, another accolade for the good guys!

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=681704&forum_id=1#8605959)

Templeton Foundation Honors Colleges for Academic Honesty

Academic Honesty Programs: 35 college programs that effectively communicate the values of honesty, trust, respect, responsibility, integrity, and fairness in the classroom

Exemplary Programs

Academic Honesty Programs

Academic honesty (or integrity) is the fundamental understanding that a person of character does not lie, steal, or cheat, especially in relationship to academic work. These principles may be supported in daily campus life by policies, enforcement procedures, sanctions, and educational programs that communicate the values of honesty, trust, respect, responsibility, and fairness. Although traditions, institutional missions, and student and faculty characteristics vary throughout the academy, exemplary academic honesty programs affirm and promote fundamental principles and standards for all members of the campus community.

Allegheny College

Bluffton University

Brandeis University

Bridgewater College

Calvin College

College of the Ozarks

Connecticut College

Hampden-Sydney College

Haverford College

Lewis and Clark College

Lyon College

Methodist College

Millsaps College

Mount Holyoke College

Muhlenberg College

Northwestern University

Presbyterian College

Princeton University

Rhodes College

St. Olaf College

Texas A&M University

United States Air Force Academy

United States Military Academy

United States Naval Academy

University of California, Davis

University of Maryland College Park

University of Miami

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

University of Notre Dame

University of South Carolina*Columbia

University of Virginia

Villanova University

Virginia Wesleyan College

Wake Forest University

Washington and Lee University

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=681704&forum_id=1#8606549)

The difference between an A+ and and A may be slight but it is a clear indication that the school receiving an A has more room to improve (than that receiving an A+). Or call it Tier I (A+), Tier II (A), etc. Nevertheless, it is useful to know what students think about their school's quality.

Studies like CollegeProwler and COFE, make teens better informed and less vulnerable to college marketing tactics.

Hopefully, with more of these surveys, fewer people will end up like this:

http://www.boston.com/news/education/higher/articles/2005/03/29/student_life_at_harvard_lags_peer_schools_poll_finds/

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=681704&forum_id=1#8604465)