How Does One Student Choose One College?
How does an individual student look at the 3,000+ U.S. institutions and decide on just one?
Forbes reports.
Decision Day; Where Should I Go College?
It’s May 1. Enrollment deposits are due from students who will be entering college this fall, making it decision day in a lot of U.S. households.
How does that decision get made? How does an individual student look at the 3,000+ U.S. institutions and decide on just one? As I have in the past, I spoke with one entering freshman about the thought process that led her to her choice. Nicole (not her real name) is a bright high school senior in a competitive school in New Jersey.
Believing that she wanted a large school with big-time sports, Nicole applied to eight large public universities, all east of the Mississippi River. In addition to these schools, she applied to her dad’s alma mater, Villanova; Northeastern because of its co-op program that requires that students work while going to school; The College of New Jersey because her parents wanted her to apply to one in-state school; and Elon because she had heard good things about it and knew some people who attended.
Comments
Back in the day, before we had so many useless majors, students applied to the schools which had the best course selection for their majors. Now they want the school with the frills. One either goes to learn or to party.