So where should I go to college?

Shadow WarChief · Post by **Shadow WarChief** » 2004-04-29 03:14pm

Same question as Alan Bolte's thread...'cept with my schools..and I have a poll.

Yes, this is an 11th hour thread considering that the colleges are due to hear back from me by the first of May. I've already visited all of the schools...and I'm pretty much set on my decision, but I am still interested in you guy's opinions...I'll heed it more than my dad's advice since he's subtly trying to influence me to stay in the state.

Trytostaydead · Post by **Trytostaydead** » 2004-04-29 03:38pm

Well, what do you want to do? I hear Wash U has a good neuro program.

Post by **Dalton** » 2004-04-29 03:43pm

Come to Hofstra. Be a Dempster Rat. Spend a year looking for work in the #1 television market in the nation

2000AD · Post by **2000AD** » 2004-04-29 06:32pm

Hmmmmm.... can't say i know much about those places so i'll suggest this:

University of Newcastle-Upon-Tyne

-Long established uni
-Good Reputation
-Compact rather than spread out campus so your not hiking a city between lectures.
-Brilliant football club near by
-Briliant Nightlife
-Drinking age in the UK is 18

RedImperator · Post by **RedImperator** » 2004-04-29 06:39pm

If you're looking to go into debt for the next fifteen years for the privledge of getting turned down by snooty blonde chicks from the Main Line, I suggest Villanova University.

Alan Bolte · Post by **Alan Bolte** » 2004-04-29 07:00pm

Case seems like a nice place...but it's surrounded by such a bad neighborhood. I wouldn't want to park my car in the street, if you know what I mean. Visited but didn't even apply. Lehigh's pretty and a good school, but it wasn't quite what I was looking for. It's also mostly white kids with high-income parents, so I felt it might be like moving to the suburbs. And given the local 'burbs...no.
And I at least talked about my schools. I don't know anything about the others.
Oh, and if you can stay less than 4-5 hours by car away from home, many people find that to be very helpful. Sometimes you just need to go home, even if you left the state to get away, for whatever reason. If all of your choices are farther than that, though, I imagine it doesn't matter.

darthdavid · Post by **darthdavid** » 2004-04-29 07:33pm

Being from CNY, I'll have to help the local economy by voting UOR.

SyntaxVorlon · Post by **SyntaxVorlon** » 2004-04-30 12:33am

I've got friends in case so, I can't be impartial.

Howedar · Post by **Howedar** » 2004-04-30 12:34am

Kynes · Post by **Kynes** » 2004-04-30 12:47am

Voted WashU. It's the best school on the list.

Rogue 9 · Post by **Rogue 9** » 2004-04-30 02:23am

Howedar wrote:<snip pic>

Isn't the entire ASU campus network banned because of John Clark?

Howedar · Post by **Howedar** » 2004-04-30 02:26am

Quiet.

Exmoor Cat · Post by **Exmoor Cat** » 2004-04-30 05:05am

2000AD wrote:Hmmmmm.... can't say i know much about those places so i'll suggest this:

University of Newcastle-Upon-Tyne

-Long established uni
-Good Reputation
-Compact rather than spread out campus so your not hiking a city between lectures.
-Brilliant football club near by
-Briliant Nightlife
-Drinking age in the UK is 18

www.ucas.ac.uk

That and degrees are three years long, not four.....

Bertie Wooster · Post by **Bertie Wooster** » 2004-04-30 09:05am

I'd suggest Lehigh. It's an excellent school, and several of my friends from my high school class went there and went on to begin very promising careers. It's a big frat school though, so be prepared to join one of those big-ass luxurious frat houses if you want to enjoy the party scene to the utmost. Also, the campus is on a hill, so going there would really build up you calve muscles.

Sir Sirius · Post by **Sir Sirius** » 2004-04-30 09:52am

Michael Behe is from Lehigh... if you decide to go there maybe you could bonk him in the head with something heavy for all of us here at SD.net?

SyntaxVorlon · Post by **SyntaxVorlon** » 2004-04-30 10:28am

Kynes wrote:Voted WashU. It's the best school on the list.

If only for the anime character it's named after.

Well shadow, what'll it be?

Post by **Zaia** » 2004-04-30 11:14pm

I voted for Rochester, but that's only because I've been there before. I don't know anything about the other schools, nor do I know anything about your intended field of study, so, yah.

Which one's your pick?

HemlockGrey · Post by **HemlockGrey** » 2004-04-30 11:21pm

If you're looking to go into debt for the next fifteen years for the privledge of getting turned down by snooty blonde chicks from the Main Line, I suggest Villanova University.

I hear it's got the best history department on the East Coast, too. Heh.

Villanova does have a very good engineering department, or so I'm told.

Shadow WarChief · Post by **Shadow WarChief** » 2004-05-01 12:23am

To answer those ever popular questions: I intend to be an engineering major. and I've decided to go to Wash U.

Why?

Well let's go down the list of the 5 schools

Wash U
Case
U of R
Lehigh
Union

Something that I didn't tell you guys was that 3 of those 5 schools offered me money to go there

U of R $10,000
Lehigh $10,000
Union $12,000

This reserves those 3 a spot in the top 4, so my first decision is between Case and Wash. Reading through student-written opinions of the school, Case looked like the inferior:

- If you're not mugged at least once in 4 years, you'll have a friend who was
- 10-20% of the teachers don't speak passable english
- Dorms are coffins with closets.

So I knocked Case off, leaving:

Wash U
U of R $10,000
Lehigh $10,000
Union $12,000

Now of these, Lehigh was next to go

While the campus and all the facilities were nice, from student written opinions and LU's information sessions, there were some negatives:

-Unless you get drunk regularly (which I don't want to do) you will be an outcast

- Co-ops only go to the top 33% of students...and I want a co-op.

So with Lehigh gone, that left:

Wash U
U of R $10,000
Union $12,000

Now while UR and U are both good schools, at Wash U., the representative at the engineering information sessions said every engineering student who wanted a co-op would get one.

That pretty much settled it for me to go to Wash. While they didn't give me any money, they have ways to have it not hurt my parent's wallets as much. If 2 years is paid, then for the next 10 years we only have to pay per month 1/4 of what would otherwise have to be paid.

Talon Karrde · Post by **Talon Karrde** » 2004-05-01 07:41pm

Alabama! Roll Tide!

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