Loren Pope - Colleges That Change Lives: 40 Schools That Will Change the Way You Think About Colleges

LOREN POPE , a Washington newspaperman who led the fight for better schools in rural Loudoun County, Virginia, first began writing about education in a column for the Gannett Newspapers in 1952. His column led to his position as education editor of The New York Times during the height of the college-going chaos of the late 50s started by the GI Bill. As an education journalist, and later a top administrator of what is now Oakland University in Michigan, he became deeply concerned with the lack of information on colleges that was available to consumers. He believed that uninformed choices could account for heavy dropout, transfer, and failure rates. His interest was triggered by the poor advice he got for his own son from friends in the then Office of Education.

In 1965, he opened the College Placement Bureau in Washington, D.C., to help families make informed, fruitful choices. Out of his reporting and research came a book, The Right College: How to Get In, Stay In, Get Back In (Macmillan, 1970), and several magazine articles, including the nationally syndicated Twenty Myths That Can Jinx Your College Choice, first published in The Washington Post Magazine. Readers Digest has sold a half-million reprints of its condensation, titled Facts to Know in Picking a College.

These articles inspired his second book, Looking Beyond the Ivy League: Finding the College Thats Right for You , which is now available from Penguin in a fully revised and updated edition.

Pope contributes to professional journals and speaks at meetings of the National Association of College Admissions Counselors. He has also appeared on radio and television.

40 Schools That Will Change the Way You Think About Colleges

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To Virginia Buege, the very able young mother who had the idea for the Colleges That Change Lives book tours when she was on the Beloit College admissions staff, and who has smoothly coordinated them since their beginning in 1998.

Without her help, and sometimes her direction, this book would not have been possible.

Her high school classmates in Wylie, Texas were right on the mark when they voted her most likely to succeed.