How to pick colleges?

<p>My son was in your situation a year ago - pressure from me to at least narrow down his major so I could plan some visits for this past spring, and no idea what he wanted to do. Luckily, as the year went on he was able to make some decisions because junior year courses became more demanding and he was more clearly able to see his strengths and weaknesses. He at least narrowed it down to computer science, business, or econ over history, English, or science and knew he wanted to avoid taking more foreign language if possible. That enabled me to make a list of schools that were respected in both CS and economics and offered the flexibility to change majors easily or to double major. I also looked for schools that had distribution requirements rather than required core courses and were small and private (while still considering StateU as one of the options). The list turned out to be very small and we visited many of the schools. I also tried to find schools that offered business as well as econ which narrowed the list even further, but doubt he will make his final decision based on that as he can always add an MBA if he is still interested in business after graduation.</p>