<p>Pretty straightforward question in the title: Are there colleges that treat students as numbers yet treat them as adults?</p>
<p>Sometimes I think that the assumed maturity of the students colleges deal with does not preclude colleges from treating students as numbers. I could very well conceive a college that treats students as numbers, yet treat them as adults, for instance.</p>
<p>Catria, if a college student in the U. S. is over 18 years of age, they ARE adults in the eyes of the colleges and are treated as such. </p>
<p>What do you REALLY want to know?</p>
<p>No matter HOW big a university is - even tens of thousands - the environment causes the masses to break down into groups e.g. majors, clubs, sports, interests, by dorm, by house and within those groups people are not numbers and they know one another if only in passing or by their name. Agree with thumper1 that once kids land at a college they are treated like adults…not young teens.</p>
<p>There may be colleges that still treat students like teens somewhat, even if the students are technically and legally adults.</p>
<p>I don’t understand what you are asking.</p>
<p>Your question is really confusing. To me, treating students like numbers IS treating them like adults in that they are assuming that the students will need very little to no support to get themselves through undergraduate school. The way you word the question seems to be saying that treating them like numbers is somehow different from treating them like adults.</p>
<p>Looking at the threads Catria has started in recent days, I’m wondering if she is doing a research project for a social media class. (E.g, how many posters on a popular message board will respond to offbeat/strange/confusing posts?)</p>
<p>I don’t think you have the right premise. These are independent concepts. Schools which are large bureaucracies for example often leave the students feeling like numbers. Whether or not they treat them like adults is not connected to the degree of bureaucracy.</p>
<p>I don’t understand what you are asking. *
I don’t understand ** why* she is asking these odd questions, lately.
Nor why she ran up so many “chance” answers in a few short months.</p>
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<p>They are not “technically” adults or “legally” adults. They are adults. No qualifiers needed. The sooner parents start treating their adult children like adults the sooner they will act like adults. Treating them like adults does not include removing all family support, but it does mean allowing them to resolve their own problems, register for their own classes, earn/spend their own money and leaving them to make their own mistakes.</p>
<p>It is a pet peeve of mine that people pretend 18-22 year olds are only adults in some pretend fashion.</p>
<p>This question really doesn’t make sense. Agree that the OP asks a lot of wacky questions, and gives questionable responses to many chance threads. :(</p>
<p>It’s school vacation…just saying:)</p>
<p>If your college treats you as a number, you had better be an adult, capable of handling things on your own.</p>
<p>It doesn’t matter if your college treats you like a number or not. By the time you get to college, you should be handling things on your own…the college isn’t going to handle “things” for you.</p>
<p>We DID help our kids with things having to do with billing/payment.</p>
<p>Look we all know there are schools that treat students as numbers- that is why the college visit or better yet an overnight is soooo important- the question is what kind of number will they use. </p>
<p>Its important to find the right fit for your kid- some schools treat kid as a prime number, which can cause a problem with divisibility. </p>
<p>Other schools treat students as pyramidal number, which can work well for the more athletic students. Our family decided that a polyhedral number was the best fit for our kid. </p>
<p>Best of luck to the class of 2*10^3 + 17!</p>
<p>It’s not school vacation anymore, certainly not for high school kids. But I wish Catria would find a different hobby. Offering “chances” opinions on dozens of schools she couldn’t possibly know enough about is a waste of time and could actually mislead some poor kid who actually thinks there’s value to “chances” threads. (I wish CC would just end the useless Chances forum altogether and replace it with a section on how to research a college’s stats and determine whether it’s a reasonable match academically. That would be truly helpful.)</p>
<p>I thought OP meant college that admits student based on numbers and treat them liek adults. I was going to say CalTech or UCs</p>
<p>I meant its still college break:)</p>