Top 10 List: Most fascinating college vs. college decisions on CC this year

College Search & Selection
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<p>My son is deciding between Case and University of Miami. Just slightly different weather!</p>

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<p>Have you visited or at least gotten a good sense of the different settings? It’s amazing to be 50/50 considering such opposite environments, but not surprising in the least that you’d be passionate about both. I’d love to choose Williams for the closeknit, liberal arts culture, and then try to take a summer course at Berkeley for the urban / Bay area experience.</p>

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<p>It’s funny that you list Wittenberg vs Florida as your # 2 response because I don’t believe that there were ANY replies to the question the OP asked. So although it is your # 2 in interest, doesn’t appear that anyone else on this board found it interesting enough to respond.</p>

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<p>My son is weighing WUSTL vs. Oberlin</p>

<p>Apples vs. bananas?</p>

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<p>Sometimes there are factors that aren’t quite mentioned. My son’s final 4 were:</p>

<p>a) moderately selective small LAC A
b) moderately selective small LAC B
c) moderately selective small LAC C
d) totally not selective large public</p>

<p>Then the final two were:</p>

<p>a) moderately selective small LAC A
d) totally not selective large public</p>

<p>Made no sense EXCEPT, the *girlfriend *was at school d).</p>

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<p>for my son too…went Yale</p>

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<p>University of Tennessee vs. Harvard.</p>

<p>My friend is really torn between these two, but only because she got an AMAZING scholarship from Tennessee.</p>

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<p>Both ae conservative schools.</p>

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<p>You’ve got to be kidding? This is a decision??? Go to Harvard.</p>

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<p>My son’s FIRST choice is Wash U in St. Louis, but we can’t afford it. So he will be deciding between a full-tuition scholarship at Susquehanna University, vs. OOS at University of Texas at Austin. Biology major at 2,000 student-LAC vs. biomedical engineering major at 50,000+ student public university. Sigh. I can’t wait until this is over.</p>

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<p>D is deciding between 3. Hard to find much that they have in common:</p>

<p>UVA – med/lg. public, small city, preppy/somewhat homogeneous student body
BC Honors – med private, swanky suburb/urban city, relgious, very homeogeneous student body
Northwestern – med private, suburb/urban city, very diverse, hard core academics</p>

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<p>TCNJ- all white, cheap, NJ school, suburban campus
McGill- highly diverse, medium expense Canadian school, large city</p>

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<p>what I see is a pattern is that kids are often faced with financial safety and expensive reach…</p>

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<p>Boston/Northeastern v.s. Geneseo umm I think the first 2 trump Geneseo all the way. And I’m being completely unbiased since I may just end up at Geneseo myself if I don’t get into my reach schools. There are way more opportunities at BU and NU and much more diversity.</p>

<p>btw I’m referring to some mom’s post from page 3 I think.</p>

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<p>UNC Chapel Hill and Reed. I win.</p>

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<p>Artemis wins!</p>

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<p>ArtemisDea, you got off Reed’s waitlist?</p>

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<p>here is one…</p>

<p>Lehigh v. Pepperdine</p>

<p>Lehigh in the Playboy list of top 20 party schools and known for their Greek party system</p>

<p>and</p>

<p>Pepperine with its Christian culture, no alcohol allowed on campus and opposite sex has to leave the dorms by 1:00 am</p>

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<p>Georgetown v. Bowdoin</p>

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<p>I would go to Georgetown.</p>

<p>I’m still torn between U of Toronto and Case Western.</p>