You visited, it’s a good fit, and it’s affordable. Go to WPI.
ASU without Barrett is not good. Arizona has majorly cut its education/university budget. Being a number among 70,000 people isn’t worth it when you have much better choices. Regular students are in huge classes, there’s little support, etc.
Barrett has its own classes, class sections, housing, advising, and basically campus. I wouldn’t consider ASU without Barrett.
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I teach at a Cal State, and I love it overall. But our 4-year graduation rate is horrible. Our average graduation rate is 6 years, and I image that SLO is probably about the same. I would definitely factor that into the decision.
However, what is important is to find out whether delayed graduation is due to student-caused reasons (e.g. school is not that selective, so that weaker students cannot handle full course loads, or fail and need to repeat courses), benign reasons (e.g. co-ops), or school-caused reasons (e.g. poor advising).
@SMMom1 @ucbalumnus I think I would be ok for graduating on time or maybe a quarter late (excluding things like co-ops) because my AP credits should give me a decent number of units, I think like a quarter’s worth of units.