<p>areas of study aside (majors), what are some most important factors in deciding what is the best school for you?</p>
<p>prestige?
rankings?
avg. salary?
price?
location?
wheather? </p>
<p>something else?</p>
<p>fit=price
location=weather
prestige=rankings</p>
<p>avg salary</p>
<p>for me.</p>
<p>I have a lot of important things for ones to be my top school which really ranges from academic reasons ( like listed above), overall benefits ( like listed above such as location, price etc…) and more importantly to make it my top ( or anyones really) is personal reasons/ standards.</p>
<h1>1 for obvious reasons, academics.</h1>
<p>Then location and campus and atmosphere. If I’m staying and paying for 4+ years, I should like and want to be there!</p>
<p>Cool idea for a thread.</p>
<p>Anyways, for me right now, it’s all about prestige and money. The best combo of the two will win!!!</p>
<p>(yes, I am a greedy jerk)</p>
<p>for me it’s how well i will fit into the college</p>
<p>A combination of academic strength and right fit.</p>
<p>My criteria were financial aid, prestige, and location.</p>
<p>Thanks for the input guys… explanations would be helpful too, though.</p>
<p>and everyone says “fit”. what exactly is fit?</p>
<p>“Fit” is hard to describe but easy to feel. When I walked on campus at the college I’ll be attending, I felt at home. I could see myself sitting under the trees studying, I could see myself and my friends going to the football and basketball games, and it just felt right.</p>
<p>Another college I strongly considered, I just didn’t feel like I fit in there. It had great programs, I was in the honors college, it was basically free… but I just would’ve been miserable for 4 years, trying to force myself to enjoy a place I didn’t take to naturally.</p>
<p>Of course, you can always learn to like a place, but given two choices where you feel more comfortable at one than the other, most would tend to choose the former.</p>
<p>^ perfectly put</p>
<p>Culture and Difficulty (the harder the better)</p>