How do you choose a college?

Student Lounge College Life
1

<p>Pick two of the 5.</p>

<ol>
<li>Fit</li>
<li>Prestige</li>
<li>Job opportunities</li>
<li>Cost</li>
<li>Location</li>
</ol>

2

<p>I’d say 1, 4, and 5 are by far the most important</p>

3

<p>One and four are definitely my two biggest choosing criteria. Five is helpful, but since my first choice is a college where it doesn’t ever get warm, I can’t put it in the top. Actually, if I can’t buy food in bulk anywhere near by, the school is out.</p>

4

<p>My ranking:</p>

<p>Fit (focus on social life)
Prestige
Cost
Location
Job Opportunities</p>

5

<p>None of the above. I went to the largest school possible with the best possible football team. I like to think that I have my priorities straight.</p>

6

<ol>
<li>Sports/Party life</li>
<li>Academics</li>
<li>Prestige</li>
<li>Job Opportunities.</li>
<li> Location</li>
</ol>

7

<ol>
<li>Roulette</li>
</ol>

<p>edit: oh wait you said two… so add</p>

<ol>
<li>Attractiveness of girls</li>
</ol>

8

<p>1 & 4. </p>

<p>My rank:
1
4
5
3
Probably everything else about a college
2</p>

9

<p>Well, first I made sure the school actually had a program for my major, and then I did some research to see if that program was supposedly any good or not. I mean, really, why isn’t academics including in this list? …</p>

<p>Then I looked at:</p>

<p>cost
cost
cost
cost
cost</p>

<p>Sometimes students completely ignore college costs when thinking of their dream schools. Eventually all those loans are going to have to be paid off ;)</p>

10

<ol>
<li>Fit</li>
<li>Location</li>
</ol>

11

<p>4
2
5
3
1</p>

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12

<p>cost first</p>

<p>then maybe fit</p>

13

<p>If no on cost, cut the school. If yes, proceed.
If no on location, cut the school. If yes, proceed.
If no on job opportunities, cut the school. If yes, proceed.
Now pick the best fit.</p>

14

<ol>
<li>Eenie</li>
<li>Meenie</li>
<li>Miney</li>
<li>Moe</li>
</ol>

15

<p>Fit and cost were my top 2, followed by prestige, location and job placement (I want to go to grad school…so…). But mostly fit.</p>

16

<p>Different for me since I’m an international student and I will probably only apply to reach schools in the US (along with a bunch of other schools all over the world).
For me the the first four are all quite important, as the school needs to be a great fit for obvious reasons that I’d consider a school, the prestige and job opportunities matter almost only as I am an international student (which makes it harder for me to find a job), and the cost matters for the typical financial reasons. In the end, the location isn’t so important.
But then there’s the general feeling about a school, you just know the positive aspects are drawing you in, and if there isn’t that, I wouldn’t really want to go there.</p>