Looking for a Good College?

tokenadult
Tue, 29 Apr 2008 12:21:32 +0000

Hi, dconcerned,

Thanks for your suggestion. I hear you as to systematic differences among various types of colleges, as it happens that my oldest is only shopping for research universities (categories 1 and 2 in your list). Here on College Confidential, I have encountered other families that mix those categories as they put together their application lists (as my son does with categories 1 and 2), so I took the risk of combining those categories. In most cases a student who looks at the college’s website will rapidly be able to tell a college’s size, presence of substantial on-campus research, and whether it is state administered. I do hope the list helps college-seekers go beyond the usual list of colleges in their own town and the often-mentioned list of the twenty or thirty most nationally known colleges when deciding what colleges to apply to.