College search for undecided students

lunitari
Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:50:06 +0000

My daughter is a classic Undecided. So instead of starting from, “What do you want to major in?”, we started from, “What kind of classes are you interested in trying?” and “What kind of place would you like to live for four years?”

She knows she wants to take some art classes, and would prefer that the school offer some digital art options as well as the traditional fine arts. That helps. She knows she wants to continue studying Japanese, and do an off-campus study in Japan. That helps too.

She likes interesting cities; she knows she wants a smaller school where most people live on-campus; she’s leery of overtly conservative or overtly religious colleges; she’s more curious about trying the west and east coasts than about the middle of the country or the south.

So we put schools through all those filters and see what shakes out!