<p>First impressions are important when considering a school; if you ignore them and then regret the choice, you feel rather silly. Being so very unhappy with your original school makes the second try even harder than the first, so it’s perhaps doubly hard to accept input from others, even if you figure that they should know better from real experience. Believing that a school is not being truthful in its CDS reporting should be reason enough to eliminate it from consideration; not trusting its profs to give accurate evaluations should be another.</p>