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View Poll Results: What is the most impt factor in selecting a college? | |
Prestige, overall academic ranking or reputation.
|    | 1328 | 41.09% | |
Academic strength in my intended major.
|    | 1706 | 52.78% | |
Geography: close enough to home.
|    | 151 | 4.67% | |
Geography: far away enough from home.
|    | 187 | 5.79% | |
Climate.
|    | 221 | 6.84% | |
Tuition, potential scholarships and cost of living.
|    | 704 | 21.78% | |
Legacy status/family history at the school.
| | 34 | 1.05% | |
Girlfriend/boyfriend, other friends there.
| | 79 | 2.44% | |
Athletics.
| | 97 | 3.00% | |
Good vibes...felt at home.
| | 1172 | 36.26% | |
Location...it's where I want to be!
| | 681 | 21.07% |
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01-21-2005, 02:40 PM
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| How about it looks good for a job I want after high school (like Lockheed Martin or NASA) or that probably goes along with prestige and major. | 
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01-21-2005, 08:21 PM
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| The main factor should just be "Can I picture myself here for 4 years?" I mean truthfully, deep down everyone knows the answer to that question. I think it's so important to have at least 1 safety or more if financial concerns play in. Even at your safety, can you picture yourself spending 8 semesters or 12 quarters there? | |
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01-23-2005, 05:44 PM
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| I really think fit is the most important factor in choosing a college, and that comprises an amalgam of different characteristics about a school. Each campus has its own distinct atmosphere that's difficult to quantify, but can make all the difference in your overall college experience. | |
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01-24-2005, 03:22 AM
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| For a lot of people, the Ivy allure is irresistible!!...it gleams like gold in a pirate's eyes. Many adults I know feel that having an Ivy League education can make a profound difference in the future, and will unlock the doors to prosperity and success. | |
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01-24-2005, 09:41 AM
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| "I really think fit is the most important factor in choosing a college, and that comprises an amalgam of different characteristics about a school. Each campus has its own distinct atmosphere that's difficult to quantify, but can make all the difference in your overall college experience."
That's....basically everything on that list. | |
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01-24-2005, 07:43 PM
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| What I meant was that I don't think any of the factors on the list can be universally given the same weight, since they all play a different part in the campus atmosphere. | |
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01-30-2005, 04:54 PM
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| Definitely Prestige, I mean your gonna want to be proud when someone asks u where u went after. Come on, I would much rather say Yale or Harvard then, University of Tennessee. | |
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01-31-2005, 01:05 PM
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| FrankSwim
what if the difference was going to Tennessee and having a good time, doing well, and coming out on top, or going to Harvard, having hardly any friends, come out in the bottom tenth with a case of depression. You might quickly reconsider. | |
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02-05-2005, 06:44 PM
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| Hey! My boyfriend is going to University of Tennessee (and then hopefully transferring to Duke). I have no doubt that he'll be accepted.
For me personally, it's what they offer as terms of major, location, and tuition/finaid.
And I will throw off a school I love if it doesn't meet those three requirements. UNC-Chapel Hill met only the location, Berklee College of Music only met major, Savannah College of Art and Design met major and some of location. But Barton College met all three. | |
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02-06-2005, 06:57 PM
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| I think prestige should only play in it's because of connections for jobs. I don't understand why a 5-second exchange (where did you go to college? Harvard. Oh woah." should be the reason you choose small name versus big name school | |
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02-06-2005, 07:38 PM
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| Celebrian is right. For anybody who doesn't need an internship immediately after they graduate/during their undergrad studies (read: people who aren't business majors), undergrad prestige is highly overrated. Your graduate degree is what people care about when they hire you after college, and anybody who works hard at a state school or an LAC like Reed which isn't as well known can get in to a good graduate program. | |
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02-16-2005, 08:52 PM
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| important factor for me is prestige. then second is academic strength | |
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02-16-2005, 09:43 PM
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| The most important thing theoreticly would be : academic stregnth in major. Theoreticly you should be striving for the highest quality education for your major. the ascertainment of knowledge is definatly the most important thing.
Realisticly: prestige is what people go for. Most people in the good old mtv generation don't care what they are learning, as long as they get that piece of paper saying that they graduated from what ever university.
For me personally... im a california boy. I cant stand the east coast. I need atleast 60 degree winter days. Location is a huge part too. College towns have a great vibe, especially when they have sporting events, but daily life seems like it could get rather redundant. city life in college seems too random and flakey for me. And definatly definatly being far enough from home where the parents cant bother ya, but close enough where if somthing happens they can get to ya. | |
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02-21-2005, 06:58 PM
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| prestige just for the job opps | |
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