Interesting town vs. interesting school

Stevenf
Tue, 08 Mar 2011 01:27:36 +0000

I’m not a collegian yet, but I’m wondering which is more important: a college in an interesting town (like UCLA with Westwood, or UC Berkeley with Berkeley), or an interesting college (like the Claremonts).
While I find small LACs to be appealing–and Claremont is only sixty miles away from me–, UCLA and UC Berkeley are in more interesting places. I mean, face it, what’s there to do in Claremont?

So my question is: when you guys were choosing colleges, how much did you take into account the surroundings?