<p>Hi, I am doing a survey for a thesis, that I have to complete at my school about colleges and universities.
Survey: If American colleges and universities, had open enrolment, which would you choose to attend? Major? Career Path? Thanks,I really need the help!</p>
<p>School: Rice University
Major: Bioengineering
Career Path: Medical Research Scientist</p>
<p>Is this what you needed to know?</p>
<p>School: MIT (maybe Stanford…can’t decide)
Major: Chemical Engineering
Career Path: Business…eventually</p>
<p>School: UMiami
Major: Media Management (minor in meteorology)
Career Path: Entertainment lawyer or something that focuses on the business aspects of the entertainment industry.</p>
<p>Well, I see a flaw in your question.</p>
<p>A large factor, for some people, is the quality of the student body at the school. If I get into Harvard, I want to be surrounded by the best of the best. I want to have intellectual and insightful discussions in class. I want to be able to learn as much as I can from those who are in my dorms, in my classes, in my clubs, etc. I want to be next to hard working, motivated students.</p>
<p>Now, if the top schools had open enrollment, they won’t have such a strong student body, and much appeal is lost.</p>
<p>I think a better way to phrase the question is: if you could gain admissions to any college/university in the country, which would it be?</p>
<p>The whole idea is about a system in which , America’s schools had open enrolment. I want to see which schools people would pick, so that I can then devise a list of pros and cons.</p>
<p>Well, some of American’s schools do have open enrollment. They are called community colleges. In terms of those, it doesn’t really matter. People usually pick the one closest to them. However, I think schools need to be selective, if for no other reason than to surround students with other students of similar ability, and for employers to have an idea of the ability of the student coming out of a specific college.</p>
<p>School: Cornell University
Major: Biological Engineering
Career Path: Physician</p>
<p>With open enrollment, the concepts of prestige and academic peers pretty much gets thrown out the window, no?
I’d have to go with Brown.</p>
<p>um, with open enrollment, you would have the following outcomes:
-teaching quality isn’t an independent variable so that stays the same
-if you changed to open enrollment, TONS of underqualified kids would go to places like harvard/yale/MIT simply based on the prestige factor, meaning i would never want to go there
-location and campus would stay the same
So, I’d probably choose a lesser known but still excellent school: Williams or Olin. Perhaps Middlebury.</p>
<p>UVA, Business.</p>
<p>What if the Ivy’s take all students who are qualified, how would you feel about that? i.e. Harvard would only accept those with a SAT score of 2200 and a GPA of 3.8.</p>
<p>I would still go to Princeton or Dartmouth first.</p>
<p>School: Reed
Major: Philosophy</p>