Kaplan/Newsweek How to Get Into College Guide Highlights 'Hot' Colleges and Web Sites

NYU, USC, Northwestern, Wash U, Miami of Ohio, Rice, RISD, Claremont and Kansas State Named Current Favorites

New York (August 7, 2000) – While certain colleges remain perennially popular, new favorites emerge during each college admissions season. According to the 2001 KAPLAN/NEWSWEEK How to Get Into College guide, this year's hottest colleges are: New York University, University of Southern California, Northwestern University, Washington University in St. Louis, Miami University of Ohio, Rice University, Rhode Island School of Design, Claremont Colleges, and Kansas State.

The guide also identifies the top 99 college-related Web sites, among them: collegeispossible.org, getintocollege.com, collegesurfer.com and realcollegelife.com.

The fifth annual edition of How to Get Into College features articles on how to overcome financial difficulties when paying hefty tuition bills and how to sell yourself to get to the top of the application process. Also included is a feature on black colleges targeting more white students and what universities are doing to become more appealing to students.

The KAPLAN/NEWSWEEK guide combines NEWSWEEK's journalistic excellence with KAPLAN's more than 60 years of admissions expertise. The 264-page guide goes on sale August 7th on newsstands and in bookstores nationwide. It can also be ordered on KAPLAN's Web site (www.kaplan.com/store), or by calling toll-free 1-800-KAP-ITEM. The cover price is $7.95. The guide will be promoted through direct response ads in Newsweek, and in high schools nationwide.

With 1,200 locations in the U.S. and abroad, KAPLAN is a premier provider of educational and career services for individuals, schools and businesses. KAPLAN's test preparation division has served more than three million students over the past 60 years.

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