<p>Our criteria were location- was it urban/rural/suburban?- transportation- both getting around the town & to & from home. Quality of academics- rigor # of courses taught by profs, class size. Cost was a consideration as well but not a big one. Outside scholarships & 100% need met, as well as WUE consortium, made the choices fairly equal to each other.
The majors my kids were interested in were offered every where so that wasn’t criteria that needed to be ranked. Campus life was another- what sort of activities were available? Quality of life- what was food like? Dorms/available housing? whether on or off campus. After criteria was decided we ranked them for importance & after that it was fairly easy to rate each school according to the criteria & add up points.</p>