<p>It seems like on College Confidential, members really look down upon big universities (15,000+ undergrads). These were the only types of colleges I applied to. In fact, I told myself that I would only apply to Big 10, SEC, and PAC-12 schools (Although I ultimately ended up applying to one ACC school, which was Maryland). I love the school spirit, the football, basketball and baseball games, parties, Greek life, access to as many majors as one can imagine, internships, and large alumni bases of big universities. The aforementioned amenities are what I look for in a university. Who else likes big universities?</p>
<p>I’m going to Purdue. 30,000 undergraduates. And that’s not even the total numbers of students.</p>
<p>I do! I know academics are the most important factor to consider, but athletics are also a major part of the college experience. When there are large public schools like UNC-CH, UVA, UMich, UCLA, UCB, and so on that offer both top notch academics and successful sports programs, why look elsewhere?. That, coupled with the affordability of state universities, makes it the obvious choice to me. </p>
<p>But I can see why others like small schools; they do have more intimacy.</p>
<p>I’d much rather go to a small university though… I want my professors to actually know my name</p>
<p>maryland is leaving the ACC tho.
also only one of the ACC schools (WFU) has less than 14k undergrads</p>
<p>I like some aspects of larger schools. I’d love to be able to rush the court after a college basketball game or see my college go to march madness or play in a bowl game.</p>
<p>Given the schools that I applied to, that probably won’t happen. I applied to two big east schools that are fairly good at basketball but I probably won’t be going to either of them and I applied to one ACC school that isn’t great at sports but decent. The rest…yeah no.</p>
<p>I was tempted to apply to big 10 schools like wisconsin, illinois, ohio state, etc. but I felt like those were too big and too far and not worth the out of state price.</p>
<p>I wish NY had one really good medium-sized state school instead of all the SUNYs that had a good sports team. NYU is too damn expensive (and no sports) and Syracuse is just…meh.</p>
<p>Yeah like jrswish said (jr smith sucks btw) maryland is going to the big 10</p>
<p>I’ll be going to UW Madison next year… I love absolutely everything about it, especially the size.</p>
<p>"(jr smith sucks btw)"
he was beasting when i made this account… not so much now :(</p>
<p>i applied to 5 B1G schools n 5 ACC schools. 1 SEC school (Vandy) because the rest are not competitive academically. Big 12 just sucks if u even care about ur education. n Pac-12s competitive schools (UW, Cal, UCLA) have early frickin deadlines</p>
<p>@JRswish When I referred to Maryland as an ACC school, I meant that it was in the ACC at the time I applied. I can’t wait to see the Terps battle it out in the best football division in the NCAA! </p>
<p>Since I was rejected from Maryland, not admitted to Penn State’s University Park campus (was admitted to Altoona though), and just didn’t apply to UDel, UGA, and Temple, I have decided to attend a community college called Northampton Community College and transfer after 2 years. Since I will be in NCC’s honors program, I will probably make a good impression on these 5 colleges once it’s time to apply for transfer admission</p>
<p>Ain’t Syracuse joining the ACC (at least for basketball)</p>
<p>WAKE seems like a cool DIV 1 experience even if their sports teams aren’t all that)</p>
<p>Syracuse and Pitt are moving to the ACC for football. </p>
<p>I don’t know about basketball.</p>
<p>Post ignored :(</p>
<p>The state of the Big East is just becoming sad.</p>
<p>I went to UT-Austin, which had 48,000 students back then (it’s over 50 now). I LOVED it. I tell people it’s like a big city with many small neighborhoods. I hung out in the civil engineering building most of the time, and got to know the students and profs well. And my very favorite class at UT was US History, with over 300 students. The prof was an amazing storyteller. He was always available during office hours, so I would go talk to him about the Panama Canal or whatever. There was always lots of stuff going on somewhere on campus, too. I ended up staying there six years, for my bachelor’s and master’s degrees. After that experience, I can’t imagine going to a small college.</p>
<p>Yep Notre Dame and Louisville are leaving (or maybe just trying to leave) and UConn has had talks with joining the ACC as well. It sucks because the big east is doing really well in basketball this year. 6 ranked teams.</p>
<p>Big East also lost their ability for automatic bids to bowls</p>
<p>We’re a rare breed on here. Haha all the colleges I’m applying to have at least 20,000 undergrads with the exception of Vandy and TCU, but they’re in big cities so it offsets the small size.</p>
<p>I like bigger universities because
a) there are more opportunities/classes and
b) people won’t say “Where the hell is that?” when you tell them where you go. </p>
<p>I understand that people like the professors to know their name and stuff, but I feel like if I went to a small school there would still be too many people for them to care about giving people individualized attention. My high school has 600 people and the teachers still don’t pay much attention to individuals.</p>