<p>My criteria are:
Strong Business Department (cuz that's my major :P)
In urban area (extremely large campus )
Affordable dorm for students (especially when the price is raising significantly)
Friendly environment
Good restaurants, supermarkets, hospital, shops, public transportations near schools.
Ample internship opportunities.
Lots of activities for students.
Generous in giving financial aid for international students (cuz I'm Asian :P)
Guarantee high salary for students when doing job
Studying abroad programs
Great professors
Big sport team and a recreation center for students
Up-to-date facility
lol I know it sounds biased but that's my dream college :P and dream is forever a dream</p>
<p>oh i forgot one of the most crucial things: hot girls :) life is boring without some gorgeous roses ;;)</p>
<ul>
<li>City environment at your fingertips</li>
<li>Culture; Museums, libraries, theaters</li>
<li>Good college athletics and pro sports teams</li>
<li>Ability to do internships and build connections</li>
<li>Excellent reputation</li>
</ul>
<p>Damn I love Georgetown.</p>
<p>I'm definitely going to add attractive guys.</p>
<p>^^ the opposite sex is not regarded much on these boards... too many geeks.</p>
<p>I'm gonna go at this using characteristics from actual schools</p>
<p>Brown's curriculum
Columbia's city
Harvard's prestige
Cambridge's architechture
Cornell's surroundings (I know it doesn't really work with the Columbia thing, but oh well)
...and awsome everything else...</p>
<p>No particular order:</p>
<ol>
<li>Renowned in journalism</li>
<li>5-13K student body</li>
<li>D1 athletics are big</li>
<li>Beautiful campus (Traditional quad included ;) )</li>
<li>New England preppy student body</li>
<li>Residential Housing</li>
<li>Intellectual atmosphere</li>
<li>Rural-suburban setting</li>
<li>College town</li>
</ol>
<p>alrightie...more specific.</p>
<p>harvard's reputation
princeton's campus/archtechture
cornell's nature
princeton's student body size
columbia's connection w/one of the biggest cities in the world (in terms of job placement and internship opportunities)
a state school's laidbackness
_____________'s hot guys????? hehe</p>
<ul>
<li>excellent reputation</li>
<li>strong business department</li>
<li>fine architecture</li>
<li>culture like museums, libraries, theaters</li>
<li>lots of activities, big sports teams</li>
<li>beach</li>
<li>hot girls</li>
</ul>
<p>stanford, berkeley, ucla?</p>
<ul>
<li>Michigan's school spirit and sociology program</li>
<li>Northwestern's journalism program (and my 90% discount...haha)</li>
<li>Colorado College's block plan</li>
<li>Tulane's fun loving student body</li>
<li>Brown's open curriculum</li>
<li>Emory's weather</li>
<li>Dartmouth's "community" feel</li>
</ul>
<p>hah, I think I included most of the schools I'm applying to..</p>
<p>oh yeah, and any given state school's good looking guys.</p>
<ul>
<li>Diversity. Not "we have X% ___ people and Y% ___ people," but people who are actually <em>different</em> and have very different backgrounds and points of view.</li>
<li>A beautiful campus with lots of open space (say, Colby's) in the middle of New York City (this one's a problem).</li>
<li>Very strong academically.</li>
<li>Medium to large.</li>
<li>Openness to interdisciplinary majors, double majors, and especially undecided people. I've noticed a large difference between colleges who see "undecided" as a good thing and colleges that seem to find my undecidedness a bit alien.</li>
<li>Involvement with outside community - lots of opportunities for community service.</li>
<li>Yale's residential college system.</li>
<li>Campus quality - I think that if I went to a college that was perfect except for decrepit dorms or a subpar gym I'd be miserable.</li>
</ul>
<p>LuckyStarBoy: sorry man I really didn't mean to be offensive.</p>
<p>But yeah...my perfect college would include:
- Really good program for my major
- Hot girls!
- Nice dorms (with bathroom in each room instead of like 10 people sharing one)
- Nice community
- Gorgeous campus
- Mid size student body (10,000~ ish? iono I'm not too picky on this one)
- Not IN, but near a big city (this is a biggie for me!!)
- Good study aboard programs
- Affordable (also a biggie)
- Weather</p>
<p>Sports, academics, and reputation are kinda a meh for me...obviously I would like for them but they're not my determining factor when it comes to picking colleges</p>
<p>Heh I highly doubt many colleges could meet all my criteria, but if you guys think of one thats close to it please let me know!!! I'd really appreciate it.</p>
<p>Top Academics/Athletics.</p>
<p>Nice girls. </p>
<p>Near Metropolitan Area.</p>
<p>Nice weather all around.</p>
<p>Spanish or Gothic Architecture.</p>
<p>Near beaches.</p>
<p>5k-7k UG's.</p>
<p>Prominent Professional schools + Top grad schools.</p>
<p>Relatively Liberal.</p>
<p>i love this thread. lets bump this up!</p>
<p>MIT is my perfect college. Everything about the school matches my personality perfectly; the quirkiness, the hacks, being pushed beyond your limits academically (I work well under stress/pressure), the course selection for my major (oceanography/marine bio), the location, just everything (okay, I am sure that there is something about the place that I wouldn't like). </p>
<p>I am going to apply as a transfer student in a year or two, but I feel that my chance of going to MIT is just a pipe dream. Of course, I am going to apply to other schools, have a few in mind, but I just don't think that it will be the same as MIT. Even though I am an old man (well, by some people's standards), I still am a kid/geek/prankster at heart and going to school purely for the academics or sports would bore me.</p>
<p>Located in California
Human Biology Program
Beautiful campus
Laid-back atmosphere
Diversity
Need-Blind Financial Aid
Intellectual Vitality</p>
<p>Please, Stanford, accept me!</p>
<p>California weather
California girls
Near a major metropolitian hub
Georgian style architecture with enclosed distinct self absorbed campus
Huge land
Large endowment
top ranked
Undergrad focused
Diversity
Non competitive, Non cutthroat atmosphere.</p>
<p>^not competitive? you went to jhu right lol</p>
<p>Umm, so far i see nice girls a lot! so i guess that is more imp. than great academics</p>
<p>In no particular order...</p>
<p>Smallish LAC... Beloit's anthropology program, Wesleyan's film program, Reed's quirky student body and location (Portland, or some other awesome city. Like Northampton!), Oberlin's music conservatory (not because I'm any good at music, but because I like being near people who are), Brown's affiliation with RISD, Bard's campus... About six hours from home (yes, I'd like to relocate Portland), strong creative writing... </p>
<p>Filled with friendly, unpretentious geeks who don't take themselves too seriously but who are passionate about academics and know obscene amounts of trivia about their subjects of choice. A hardcore academic environment, but laid-back-- not ultra competetive. A chill social scene-- minimal crazy drunken frat-ness. In fact, no frats, but an opportunity for co-op housing. Theses required for graduation. Faculty mentors. Minimal distribution requirements or open curriculum (especially no math requirements). Accepts AP for placement AND credit. Need-blind financial aid. Decent diversity. In a coastal state. Good student newspaper and radio stations. Liberal and politically active student body. No religious affiliation. Above the Mason Dixon line. Climate not DRAMATICALLY different from MD. High percentage residential. Strong sense of community. Good music scene. Brown's course offerings-- especially in the anthropology department. Focused on undergrad as opposed to grad/research. Lots of graduates going on to get their phds. Delicious, five star restaurant quality food and every student gets their own bathroom (you did say PERFECT college). Has an ice rink and some sort of figure skating program. Sports so crappy that the student body can rally around how much they suck, but with killer ultimate frisby, unicycle hockey and segway polo teams, because I think they're cool. Artsy but unpretentious (haha). Physically fit, somewhat outdoorsy student body. No Crocs anywhere on campus. Passionate, funny, helpful professors. Low student-teacher ratio. Wade Davis as a guest lecturer. Opportunity for internships and anthropology field work in South America and Eastern Europe. A kazoocapella group. A club that wanders around handing out delicious treats. Its own movie theater showing lots and lots of really good movies. A decent swingset, and possibly a large jungle gym. With a ball pit that is routinely scoured for band-aids, dirty needles, and used condoms. Attractive guys...</p>
<p>You know, the usual stuff.</p>