15 Colleges Your Parents Don't Want You to Attend

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@colmomto2

DS goes to CU Boulder as a grad student and loves the school. Hates his roommates. He is living off-campus and has roommates who are there to party, not study. He is switching to on-campus housing this fall where there will be oversight into the volume of the music and the pot-smoking/drugs.</p>

<p>He really likes his professors and feels they are interested in teaching him what he will need to know to be successful. He likes it better than the big state university he attended for undergrad where the profs were more interested in their research then the students.

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<p>At a typical research university, faculty tend to be more interested in students at higher levels. I.e. they often have the most interest in graduate students (who are working on research projects they are leading), then upper division undergraduates (who are at least expressing interest in their subject by taking more advanced courses in it and may also be candidates for research work), then lower division undergraduates (who are often taking the course just to fulfill a requirement rather than a strong interest in the subject).</p>

<p>So perhaps it would not be surprising that your son found the faculty more interested in him as a graduate student than as an undergraduate.</p>