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.


 
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