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Bala · 04-13-2008, 05:08 PM

I might worry more about school setting/location than size.

Medill only takes about 160 kids a year, around 650 total for the school. As a "school within a school" it will provide a more intimate feel in general than a typical mid-sized university. Advising, etc. will be more personal. I also strongly agree with arbiter213 that a residential college (add Willard to the list) can add another element of intimacy to freshman year.

But the schools you applied to are not only small, they are in mostly rural/semi-rural, isolated environments. The Northwestern campus is lovely but the Chicago skyline is in sight along the lakefront and the El is no country road. If a buccolic, country setting totally removed from city life is what you really want, you may be better served at Vassar (though I'd avoid Poughkeepsie), or the even more isolated but lovely environs of Hamilton and Colgate or Kenyon.

04-13-2008, 05:08 PM	#6
Bala Junior Member Join Date: Apr 2007 Posts: 154	I might worry more about school setting/location than size. Medill only takes about 160 kids a year, around 650 total for the school. As a "school within a school" it will provide a more intimate feel in general than a typical mid-sized university. Advising, etc. will be more personal. I also strongly agree with arbiter213 that a residential college (add Willard to the list) can add another element of intimacy to freshman year. But the schools you applied to are not only small, they are in mostly rural/semi-rural, isolated environments. The Northwestern campus is lovely but the Chicago skyline is in sight along the lakefront and the El is no country road. If a buccolic, country setting totally removed from city life is what you really want, you may be better served at Vassar (though I'd avoid Poughkeepsie), or the even more isolated but lovely environs of Hamilton and Colgate or Kenyon.