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View Poll Results: What is the most impt factor in selecting a college? | |
Prestige, overall academic ranking or reputation.
|    | 1419 | 41.13% | |
Academic strength in my intended major.
|    | 1829 | 53.01% | |
Geography: close enough to home.
|    | 166 | 4.81% | |
Geography: far away enough from home.
|    | 200 | 5.80% | |
Climate.
|    | 237 | 6.87% | |
Tuition, potential scholarships and cost of living.
|    | 762 | 22.09% | |
Legacy status/family history at the school.
| | 34 | 0.99% | |
Girlfriend/boyfriend, other friends there.
| | 79 | 2.29% | |
Athletics.
| | 101 | 2.93% | |
Good vibes...felt at home.
| | 1238 | 35.88% | |
Location...it's where I want to be!
| | 743 | 21.54% |
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12-06-2007, 05:14 PM
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#256 | | Member
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12-11-2007, 07:29 AM
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#257 | | Senior Member
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| why are
Academic strength in my intended major.
Good vibes...felt at home.
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Prestige, overall academic ranking or reputation. | |
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12-12-2007, 02:29 PM
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#258 | | Junior Member
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| I'm music and theatre, so I can't worry about much of anything besides the quality of the program. | |
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12-26-2007, 08:06 PM
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#259 | | New Member
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| I am an international student, so I focus on any school that offers a significant amount of financial aid for intl students. Of course, all my intended school must meet my future career. | |
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12-27-2007, 09:04 PM
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#260 | | Junior Member
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| prestige is what counts in good opertunities reaching you. McCombs may be good(hypothetically speaking) but wharton could be worse, top jobs dont come to low shools as much as prestigious schools.
Whered you go?
"Community college"
ok, you can be the janitor
Whered you go?
"Harvard"
Hmm, impressive, you got the job!(good job)
Slightly exagerated but the concept is true. | |
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01-06-2008, 08:42 PM
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| did you know the elephant is the only mammal that can't jump off the ground? | |
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01-07-2008, 04:41 AM
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| Academic strength in my intended major.
Tuition, potential scholarships and cost of living.
Prestige, overall academic ranking or reputation. | |
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01-09-2008, 07:04 AM
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| Paisa... nothing less... nothing more... | |
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01-10-2008, 04:37 PM
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| Geography, at least 4 hours from home. Not florida, louisiana, or anywhere that doesn't have "winter."
Academic reputation and prestige are not the same to me. All of the college I'm applying to have strong academic reputations, but do not have as much prestige in my area becaues they are not Ivys and they are far away.
And the deciding factor... the VIBES. The reason that St. Olaf is my first choice instead of my safety school :-D. It will be such a hard decision for me if I am accepted to any of my "name schools" but i have to figure out what's best for ME, not what will be the most fun to tell people. | |
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01-10-2008, 06:09 PM
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| Prestige... No one will give a damn if you went to University of Iowa, but they will if you go to harvard or stanford | |
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01-10-2008, 08:35 PM
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| ^^^ i'm not even gonna explain why that is wrong, it's so obvious. | |
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01-10-2008, 09:15 PM
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| ^^maybe in your idealistic world, but in the real world, it is true | |
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01-11-2008, 12:14 PM
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| actually it's not. most employers care more about your skills, how well you interview, your recommendations, etc, and those are not dictated entirely by which school you went to.
And once you start focusing solely about prestige, you start to freak out if you go to #20 instead of #2, when, in real world, a good school is a good school no matter what US News thinks.
Sure, Harvard (and a a SLEW of other schools) may impress a lot of people. But so will solid abilities and a good GPA from anywhere. For me, it's more about the experience than the result. College is NOT just means to an end. | |
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01-11-2008, 02:35 PM
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| Social atmosphere is tops (I want college to be a satisfying and enjoyable expirience), followed by prestige (like milkmagn said, this is the real world), having a major that siuts my needs would be 3rd (that is why I'm there, right?), and 4th would be climate (I hate heat). Everything else is just icing on the cake.  Brown | |
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01-12-2008, 08:01 PM
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| The student who graduates from Harvard dead last in class rank (in terms of GPA) has a far greater chance of getting into a competitive grad school than someone who was valedictorian of the graduating class of Podunk university.
Prestige is far more important for college than it is for high school. The simple reason- most high-schoolers live at home and go to a school near home, while the opposite is true for college.
Oftentimes, people won't be able to get certain job interviews if they were to a less known school rather than an ivy | |
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