Rank these Eastern colleges... 1-5 please

weenie
Mon, 28 May 2007 18:58:09 +0000

Original poster, Nightingale:



Just base your ranking on what you know or have heard.





“Unless you’ve actually attended all 5 of these schools I don’t think you can rank them in ANY meaningful way.”

-I think you mean unless you’ve VISITED… not “attended” There is probably nobody on the planet who has attended all five schools I asked about. Thus, none of them could ever be ranked in a meaningful way. Like it or not we have to find some way to rank them via visits, word of mouth, research, overnight stays, and so on.



Well, actually, I did mean unless you have attended all five of them. (And I know no one has actually attended all five.)

I just think you have to be VERY careful about other people’s vague “rankings” - what the heck are they based on? You never really know! Did they rank it higher than some school they know nothing about or have never even stepped foot on campus? Or their ranking might be completely irrelevant to you. Perhaps someone has ranked them based on a major you have no interest in. Or distance from their home entered into it. Or the availability of handicapped housing.

You state it’s time to get serious. I would suggest you not start with hear-say. Don’t base your college search on rumor and forum myth.

There are some good visit reports on here, so they might be worth looking at. Otherwise, I think you’d do better if you listed what’s important to you (assuming they are criteria that aren’t on the school web sites).