As you start refining your list: Maybe you should start by looking at Quality of Life. In this case, how stressful is the the college?
Five criteria were taken into account:
• The cost: Financial pressure is a huge stress-inducer. Tuition plus room and board, weighted at 35 percent. With 2009-2010 data from the National Center on Education [...]

A new book, Higher Education by Andrew Harker, is generating some intense discussion. As part of the research for the book, they have generated an interesting list of colleges where great teaching is happening:
As we traveled around the country researching our book, we, in fact, found some colleges that we thought were doing their job [...]

Today I gave a workshop on using personality testing in the college search process. The site we used:
Shanghai American School Guidance website.
Some great books on personality profiles (some college or career specific):

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While many students consider taking a year abroad in their junior year, a growing number of colleges offer freshman year abroad, according to Inside HigerEd. Indeed a list compiled on the NACAC list serve reveals just how involved it has become:

NYU x11 (to Florence, Paris, London, Abu Dhabi – http://www.nyu.edu/studyabroad/freshmen.programs/)
Skidmore x8 (to London – http://cms.skidmore.edu/ocse/programs/london_fye/index.cfm)
Suffolk x8 (to [...]

The Answer sheet featuresa guest post today from Josh Johnson, a veteran campus tour guide. He offers the following advice:
* Do some research before visiting a school and schedule as much as you can for your visit.
* Of course plan for a tour, if the school offers it sign up for an interview or info [...]

Minnesota is leading the way of embedding online courses as part and parcel of the education experience in public education:

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Inside Higher education has a very detailed commentary on the push for online.

When sensibility trumps prestige.

Over invole your self in their life, explains a new study:
In a survey of 300 college freshmen, Neil Montgomery, a psychologist at New Hampshire’s Keene State College, found that children of helicopter parents tend to be dependent, anxious, neurotic and less open to new ideas and actions. Ultimately, the research suggested that such children would not [...]

will be you…via DNA swab. Welcome to UC Berkeley

Here is a list I stumbled on for schools with great pre-med programs:

#  Amherst College  (Amherst, MA)
# Bates College (Lewiston, ME) (6 scholarships available)
# Bates College (Lewiston, ME) (6 scholarships available)
# Brown University (Providence, RI) (8 scholarships available)
# Bucknell University (Lewisburg, PA) (12 scholarships available)
# Carleton College (Northfield, MN) (9 scholarships available)
# Colgate University (Hamilton, [...]