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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Stats: 4.5 wgpa; 1530 SAT

Accepted: W&M, UVA, Ohio State, Lehigh, Clemson, Villanova, Florida State, University of Florida, Virginia Tech, Penn State, Tulane, UGA

Waitlists: None

Rejected: University of Pennsylvania

Choosing: University of Florida

Go Gators![/quote]

Curious why DC chose UF - that is an amazing list of schools to pick from! [/quote]

NP (not the pp whose kid chose UF) but if I had that same list I’d either choose UF or Tulane. Love the vibes at both schools and both are excellent schools! UVA and W&M are great too but I’d want to get farther away from home.[/quote]

Really?  I would never chose the school of 35,000 kids over a smaller school.  [/quote]

Ok. I would :)[/quote]

So would my kid. He doesn’t want small. [/quote]

Same - I think a large school just opens up a lot more choices and opportunities 
to explore interests and find people with whom they have things in common with.  [/quote]

There is large and then there is Uber large.  Much different experience at school of 18,000 than one of 35,000.  [/quote]

Not really.  
DP[/quote]

I agree. Once you get above (very roughly) 12-15,000 undergrads, you reach a point where you won’t be surprised if you go all day & never run into someone you know. That seems to be a tangible difference…college goes from being a village where there is usually at least one familiar face in any large group to a city where you are just another nameless person.

I think what often makes the universities with huge enrollments so overwhelming is not the number of people, but the spread-out campuses they usually have. Like Indiana, Michigan, Michigan State, & Texas A&M cover enormous chunks of land, & going from place to place can be a chore. Compare the feeling on those campuses to places like Central Florida, U of Az, & U of Nebraska, which have a lot of students but their campuses are relatively compact. [/quote]

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