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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have a rising senior DS with high stats who is, to borrow a term I've seen on this forum and heard his generation use, a "Chad": athletic, handsome, square-jawed, confident, magnetic, good with girls. He's working on his college list and torn between big rah-rah schools and smaller, more intimate residential colleges. We've been going back and forth on the pros and cons of each. At a big school he'd almost certainly join, to use another term that was heretofore unfamiliar to me, a "touse" fraternity and have an active social and dating life, but in day to day life, walking between classes, and so forth, he'd ultimately be just another face in a sea of thousands, which would be a major culture shock for him. At a smaller school he'd likely rise to the top of the social ladder fast and become a "BMOC," but what are the chances he'll outgrow it or that a more a limited environment will constrain someone with his kind of personality?

He's looking to study econ or finance. Some of the schools on his list right now:

UVA
UNC-CH
UF
W&L
Davidson
Richmond
Wake

I like Wake as a bigger small school, and I know Elon fits that category too, though I'm not sure he'd be challenged academically at the latter. He doesn't want to go north or deal with anything colder than the DMV, which rules out places like Bucknell/Lafayette/Lehigh/Colgate.

What does everyone think for a kid like mine? Small school or big? Any other mid-sized options worth considering, like maybe Tulane or UMiami? Thanks in advance, and please keep any nasty comments to yourselves.[/quote]

Troll post. This one isn’t even good fiction.[/quote]

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