UCLA vs UCSD vs ASU Barrett. Please help me choose!

sbdad12
Wed, 28 Apr 2021 16:34:55 +0000

Hi @Anxiouscollegestuden , I would suggest watching this video, which gives you a good idea of what the school is about. There are even two people of Indian descent, one who moved from Chennai, who talk about their experiences (at 1:09 and 42:22)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YW2p0ctzK9c

As far as innovation goes, the university is a leader in a lot of areas. New programs all the time. For instance, the school owns a large condominium complex where older people come to live and take classes at the nearby university as life long learners. They even have a unique program with the Mayo Clinic.

ASU’s president, Michael Crow, is probably the best university president in the country. He’s always pushing the university forward. Google “best university presidents” and he is likely in every list.

You can also check out other schools here.
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=asu+campus+tour

One of the reason ASU is not highly ranked is because their admissions are not super selective, as their mission is to provide a college education to as many people in Arizona as possible. However, individual colleges have very good ratings, and as some others have said, a number of people admitted cannot keep up and drop out. But the top students are in Barrett and some of the other departments and are very bright. The school has A LOT of National Merit Finalists. Barrett is known as the best honors college in the country.

We visited 15 campuses and ASU was in our top 3 in terms of best tour, along with Northwestern and UCSB. If you want to talk further with someone, message me and I can connect you with the woman from our tour at Barrett. She was great!

I know I sound like a salesperson. For me, I went to Michigan and then Minnesota for my MBA, so they were selective schools. But I’ve been very impressed by ASU and my daughter is having a very good experience there.