Creating the List of Colleges

GoForth
Fri, 15 Jan 2016 12:23:42 +0000

@jazzpianodad - that is a good point that “urban” or “being near other schools” could just as well be equivalent to being in a huge, competitive student body.

The way I meant “losing its luster” is that it is losing its mystery. It is becoming known how to get gigs, where gigs might be gotten. So it is less like a missing vitamin in the diet, less like an unknown road.

@ScreenName48105 - Yes, that room and board adds to it. There is some mitigation in that we are not buying food for S here at home. Another sort of mitigation is that W and I will be free to move to a different/smaller location. If we had a full tuition deal and had to pay room, board, and normal sized fees, books and so forth, that is OK.

@drummergirl - how is Oberlin as far as number of people to play with? Actually, I believe there exists a scenario where you could go to a place with a small number of people and an ideal-for-you professor and come out 4 years later as the best-you-could-have-become, but identifying that scenario has not yet happened, so having a large peer group and a very good professor seems more possible to find on purpose.