<p>I like them both, but they seem so different. which would everyone chose?</p>
<p>Well...I chose Scripps, but know nothing about Colby. It might help if you said a little more about what you want in a school, what you're hoping for in a college experience, what your interests are, what your priorities are, and so forth.</p>
<p>Have you visited both? Spent a night? Is there any possibility of doing this in one or both places before deciding?</p>
<p>Wow - 2 completely different places/atmospheres/parts of the world - one summer sunny - the other cold New England winters - what are you looking for in a school/major??? Can't imagine 2 schools being sooo different from each other.</p>
<p>i know that's my problem i like a lot of things about each of them, and yet they are COMPLETLY different. I visited both schools, and loved both, but for different reasons. Scripps has a beautiful campus, the five college consortium, and great weather....but colby has a more athletic student body (i want to run xc/track), seems to have more internship opportunities, and costs a little bit less.</p>
<p>Actually Colby is a pretty neat school - unique in it's own way - easy and laid back atmosphere - nice folks there.</p>
<p>Well, when I was making my decision, it was Berkeley/USC/Scripps. The only way you could make them too much more different is to pick any one of the three and throw it to the other coast! I spent two hours going crazy to my guidance counselor (in retrospect, I think it was a big clash between what I <em>wanted</em> and what I <em>wanted to want</em> or thought I <em>should</em> want). She had me try something kind of unique...</p>
<p>We made a matrix where the columns were my three schools and the rows were five things that I picked as "important qualities" (location, atmosphere, availability of stuff I want to do, nice dorms/campus...I forget). I graded each school 1-5 in each category, without worrying about how I'd graded the other schools in the same category (i.e. I could have given 5 to all three schools in the same category). At the end, I ranked the qualities in order of importance (so let's say atmosphere is most important, followed by availability of stuff, followed by location, etc.). Finally, we multiplied each score by the <em>opposite</em> of its category's importance (so I multiplied the atmosphere scores by 5, availability scores by 4, location by 3, etc.) and added up each school's scores. One was the very, very clear lead.</p>
<p>This obviously wasn't a flawless exercise, but it really cleaned the situation up for me. It let me see past all the muck.</p>
<p>Thanks so much, i think i'll try it right now!</p>