Quite interesting.
I have the final of my four kids on his way out of high school and on to college in the fall.
The sheer breadth and scope of information given, requested, and bandied about here has certainly changed the way I have come to view the college selection process. In the time between sending my first kid off and this one, I’ve stuck to some patterns (still call for the college prospectus), and learned some new ones (that College Data Set is an interesting resource).
I come around in an ebb-and-flow kind of way to ‘hear’ the sage voice of one of my favorite posters, whose voice I have decided is that of Charlotte from the 1973 film version of Charlotte’s Web, touch base with current thought and trends in the world of college admissions, and find lists and stats regarding the same that I could not even imagine were part of the calculus.