Our son had these two criteria only:
- Strong engineering program
- On-campus (N)ROTC
He didn’t care about location, diversity/other students, food, dorms, city/country, large/small, weather, clubs/activities, spirit, campus, nothing. He didn’t want to tour anywhere either; he felt he could get everything he needed to know from a school’s website. Sometimes I wanted to wring his neck. He chose a service academy.
…or the government mandated them.