Queens College among ’25 Hottest Schools in America’

Queens College (QC) has been named by the 2008 Kaplan/Newsweek How to Get into College Guide as one of “The 25 Hottest Schools in America.”
The 264-page guide is a cooperative effort between the weekly magazine and the test prep website. It will be available in bookstores on Monday, August 20.
According to the guidebook authors, “Although its families are becoming more affluent, QC remains a likely choice for students whose parents never went to college (38 percent of the student body).
Its most celebrated recent fictional graduate is Ugly Betty—Betty Suarez—the working-class character played by America Ferrera on the ABC comedy.
However, the guide notes, “The school’s biggest claim to fame is the several generations of lawyers, doctors and other professionals who could not afford the Ivies and say Queens changed their lives.”
In New York City, two other colleges were included in the Hottest 25 Colleges list: Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, dubbed “Hottest for Free Tuition,” and Fordham University, named “Hottest Catholic School.”
Fordham, operated by Jesuits, has campuses in Tarrytown, New York, the Bronx and near Lincoln Center in Manhattan.
Cooper Union, located in Manhattan’s East Village, is one of the few universities to offer a full-scholarship to every student attending. They admit less than one of every seven who apply.
The guide observes that QC is, “still a bargain with tuition of $4,000. It looks nothing like the big city campuses of Manhattan. It has 77 acres of rolling lawns and a tree-lined Quad.”
The borough’s only four-year public college enjoys a national reputation for its liberal arts and sciences and pre-professional programs. It is consistently included in the annual guidebook, The Princeton Review America’s Best Value Colleges.
Queens College will be holding a fall open house on Sunday, November 4 for all who want to visit the campus and learn more about why QC is one of America’s hottest colleges.
For more information, please call 718-997-4220 or visit www.qc.cuny.edu/admissions