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Freshman offers tips on choosing the right college (Beloit Daily News)

As a high school senior, Aleks Olszewski was too lazy to visit many colleges, so she thumbed through books – such as â??351 Best Colleges,â? an 800-page compilation by the Princeton Review weighing more than two pounds – to learn the positive and negative aspects of the schools and read what their students had to say.

But, now a freshman at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, she cautions that may not be the best approach for all.

â??I’m happy with my decision,â? Olszewski said. â??But I know a lot of people who are transferring at semester or at the end of the year.â?