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View Poll Results: What is the most impt factor in selecting a college? | |
Prestige, overall academic ranking or reputation.
|     | 1,928 | 41.99% | |
Academic strength in my intended major.
|    | 2,490 | 54.22% | |
Geography: close enough to home.
|    | 238 | 5.18% | |
Geography: far away enough from home.
|    | 270 | 5.88% | |
Climate.
|    | 345 | 7.51% | |
Tuition, potential scholarships and cost of living.
|    | 1,070 | 23.30% | |
Legacy status/family history at the school.
| | 44 | 0.96% | |
Girlfriend/boyfriend, other friends there.
| | 110 | 2.40% | |
Athletics.
| | 133 | 2.90% | |
Good vibes...felt at home.
| | 1,626 | 35.41% | |
Location...it's where I want to be!
| | 1,044 | 22.74% |
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04-21-2007, 08:38 PM
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#211 | | Senior Member
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OK, I didn't read all the postings, but this poll adds up to way over 100%. The way I got it, you could only pick one choice. something's fishy...
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04-22-2007, 12:48 PM
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#212 | | Senior Member
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good point....
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04-30-2007, 10:46 PM
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#213 | | Member
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The closest answer they had to my opinion was "Good Vibes." The most importat thing for a student is to find a school where he feels like he will be happy. Ignore the rankings and the prestige and all that garbage. Find a school who's overall environment matches your personality.
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05-01-2007, 04:27 PM
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#214 | | Senior Member
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those percentages add up to about 189 :P
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05-01-2007, 10:04 PM
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#215 | | Member
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"Academic strength in my intended major" is important, but people go about this the wrong way. I see all over this site the US News graduate program rankings, which people use to judge the strength of an undergrad program. First of all, a college's undergrad program can be EXTREMELY different from its undergrad counterpart. Secondly, the rankings are just so flawed. Just look at the methodology and you'll see what I'm talking about.
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05-02-2007, 06:52 AM
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#216 | | Junior Member
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it's all about the feel, man. if you aren't feelin it, you won't wanna be there and you'll have a much higher chance of failure.
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05-06-2007, 03:45 PM
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#217 | | Member
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^Absolutely.
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05-06-2007, 04:22 PM
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#218 | | Senior Member
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This site is so sick in a bad way....930 of you idiots said prestige? Are you serious? Fit without a doubt...
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05-06-2007, 04:41 PM
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#219 | | Senior Member
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The problem is lumping "prestige, overall academic ranking or reputation" together into one category; it's the only box to check if you want to vote for general academics.
This is another example of biasing questions in order to produce desired results.
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05-17-2007, 10:04 PM
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#220 | | Member
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It's a combination of these three for me...
Good vibes...felt at home.
Academic strength in my intended major.
Geography: far away enough from home.
all about equal
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05-18-2007, 08:08 PM
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#221 | | Senior Member
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beauty of campus should have been an option
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05-20-2007, 08:00 AM
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#222 | | New Member
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I think it is prestige, that's the most crucial factor i care.
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06-05-2007, 03:51 PM
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#223 | | Member
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How about the type of people that go there?
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06-09-2007, 07:11 PM
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#224 | | Senior Member
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i dunno, so many campuses are beautiful. i can't see how that would ever be the most important factor. a factor, yes, but deciding? no
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06-15-2007, 10:07 AM
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#225 | | Member
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Academic strength in my intended major and how much I like a specific school's program in IR is first. Second would be the overall feel/vibe.
It seems like the beauty of the campus would fit into the overall vibe, or at least I'd consider it to be part.
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