<p>*Co-op housing
*GEEKS
*Place for playing Frisbee
*Lots of random student organized activities
*Biking = main form of transportation
*Academically challenging
*Located somewhere with good fen shui.</p>
<p>*Science and Engineering school
*99% Girls
*Me</p>
<p>-Strong (Electrical?) Engineering Program; research-based with time to learn something about business
-Able to study abroad for a year (or more!)
-Enough time to study a new foreign language to prepare for said year abroad
-Located somewhere new</p>
<p>hey Seiken, I don't think you will survive at your dream college. How do you study in such a place having only 1 man bathroom for you ? I think you will get enervated within 2 weeks :D</p>
<p>My perfect college:
Strong department in my major
top notch facilities and faculty
friendly student body
located in a big city
small to medium size
strong alumi network</p>
<p>my perfect college is USC hehehe</p>
<p>Bathrooms havent really been incorporated into my study habits quite yet. </p>
<p>Well not totally true......there was this one particle physicsproblem my study partners and I couldnt figure out, and I managed to come back from a restroom break with the answer ^^.</p>
<p>And to add to my list of qualifications, the 99% female population should not be lesbians (as if this was some loophole)...well, maybe some.</p>
<p>lol you may try internship at colleges for women as teacher assistant to see how your dream looks like :D</p>
<p>I'm in graduate school, but looking back my ideal college would've been like this:</p>
<p>LOCATION
Warm climate with mild winters; on or nearby a beach. In a small suburban town that's easy to navigate without a car and with great, inexpensive public transit into a nearby large city like DC -- a clean city with lots of history and the potential for a lot of internships of different types. The small town the college is in would have a good number of spots to eat or have fun -- movie theaters, skating rinks, supermarket close by to campus, etc.</p>
<p>CAMPUS
Large, expansive campus with thousands of students (15,000+) but set up sort of like Harvard or Emory -- an undergraduate college with a medium-sized number of undergrads (4,000-6,000) and many graduate programs. Campus has a lot of amenities, like convenience stores and several cafeterias scattered all over campus. It's an actual, real campus, not a collection of buildings like NYU.</p>
<p>Dorms would ALL be suite-style, with each student getting his or her own small bedroom and sharing a bathroom, kitchen, and common area with 5-20 other students. The cheaper suites would be 4-5 bedrooms arranged together with one bathroom, with 4-5 of these arrangements on a hall, with that whole hall (16-25 people) sharing a large kitchen and common area. The more expensive suites would have 4 bedrooms arranged around a kitchen and 1-2 bathrooms, as well as a common area, sort of like an apartment. Students would be highly encouraged to live on campus, but not required.</p>
<p>STUDENT BODY
Mostly traditional age student body (18-22) but with a small, thriving nontraditional student program. Very racially/ethnically diverse with a sizable percentage of international students (~15%). Students are generally politically moderate to liberal, and they work hard, play hard. Weekend starts on Thursday night :D Lots of official student groups; large and powerful SGA; active minority student groups and LGBT student groups. Students are cohesive and people feel like they know most people on campus. All lifestyles welcome :D</p>
<p>ACADEMICS
It is a research-high university ("R2" under the old system), meaning that there is more focus on undergrad programs than at a research/VH (old "R1") and professors have a medium teaching load. All professors teach undergraduate classes, and teaching assistants responsible for whole classes by themselves are only 3rd-year and beyond graduate students. (Sucks more for us than for you guys). First and second year grad students can only be recitation/lab leaders or graders. Undergrads have many opportunities to get involved with research in labs with professors and graduate students. Not an extremely prestigious school; this uni is probably in lower tier 1/upper tier 2 somewhere in the 30-50 rank. Well-respected. Classes are medium-sized; first year lectures in popular subjects can reach enrollments of 75-100 but there are plenty of upper-level seminar classes with small enrollments. Undergrad college has an honors program.</p>
<p>Strengths would be psychology (I'm biased), sociology, public health undergrad major, biology, and engineering, and "critical" modern foreign languages like Korean and Arabic.</p>
<p>Special programs at the school include a wide range of study abroad programs to every imaginable place (50+% of undergraduates study abroad); a BS/MD program; 5-year BA/MA or BS/MS programs in several fields; a strong pre-med program and a good internship placement program.</p>
<p>ADMISSIONS/FINANCIAL AID
The school would be selective, with approximately 30-45% of applicants gaining admission each year. SAT mid 25% range would be 570-700, and the average high school GPA would be around 3.5. Admissions are need-blind for U.S. applicants and certain international applicants. Admission would use affirmative action responsibly -- underqualified students would not be allowed in regardless, but race could be considered a factor in admissions to maintain diversity of the campus.</p>
<p>Financial aid would be generous, with large endowments going to scholarships. There would be some full merit-based scholarships available to upper-middle-income students, and some full need/merit-based scholarships available to lower-income students. Everyone would receive some sort of financial aid, dependent partially on need and partially on merit. Loans would be minimized so no student leaves school owing more than $15,000 (~$4,000/year)</p>
<p>OTHER
Division I athletics school; football games are huge and homecoming is an event nearly everyone gets involved in.</p>
<p>After-graduation placement is highly organized, utilizing an extensive alumni network. Centralized office for placing students in graduate programs and/or careers would be efficient and helpful, sponsoring one-on-one counseling with students beginning in their junior year to help them find jobs or graduate programs that appeal to them. Less than 20% of the graduating class would leave not having anything lined up for the next year.</p>