Match me: Bay Area student looking for colleges with good ranking/culture/location/academic environment! [3.91 GPA (3.86/4.14/4.29 for UC), 1550 SAT, environmental engineering]

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The vast majority of the students at Vanderbilt and Rice will not meet this stereotype. Besides the fact that tons or young people in those states love all sorts of music and aren’t wearing cowboy boots, the majority of the students at Rice and Vandy are not coming from TX or Tennessee. So if a school isn’t the right fit, it’s totally okay to eliminate it. But make sure you do research to see what the school is actually like rather than creating generalizations based on stereotypes.

Thanks for the response! Just to clarify, I wasn’t particularly drawn to Rice or Vanderbilt mainly because of city culture, not because of the student population. One of my siblings went to Vanderbilt and told me that the student population is pretty diverse but there wasn’t really much to do in Nashville near the college other than country bars. I also visited the area and just had a feeling that it wasn’t for me. I did have a feeling that Nashville and Houston have similar city culture, but I will definitely do more research on that. I should have clarified this in my post–sorry for the confusion.

If you make the effort to reach out to your professors (i.e. attend office hours, ask questions, etc), then you will be able to interact and get to know your professors no matter how big your classes are. But, do you prefer small classes or are you just mentioning small classes because that’s how you think you’ll be able to interact with professors?

I thought about this for a bit, and while I feel like it would be easier to “stand out” to professors in smaller classes, I realized it’s more of my responsibility to make that happen. I will probably not consider class size in choosing my colleges.