We haven’t visited UPitt so I didn’t realize it and Amherst were so different. I just know that based on his research he says he really liked Pitt. He isn’t set on being in a city s small town. We live in the suburbs so he spends time in the city and loves the outdoors as well. He just doesn’t want to be in the middle of nowhere ( took UConn out of the running).
Size isn’t definite either. He thought he didn’t want small but after spending the summer at Tufts, he changed his mind. He can be slow to warm up to people and he wonders if a large school will make it hard for him to make friends. So now he adds smaller schools to the mix but I do worry they will be too small.
BU is on the list because his sister goes there and likes visiting her. It’s a known entity so feels safe for all of us.
My son is a bit of enigma. I didn’t think he would have liked. the NYU Brooklyn campus but it’s on his list now.
Clarkson worries me due to financial stability and location seems too remote. Hofstra gave my daughter a pretty poor package compared to all the other schools she got into so we never considered ot for our son. Will ask him to look more closely at GWU
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