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As others have mentioned you probably want to have him think more about the size issue with particular focus to the size of the undergraduate population. One problem is there generally only are small (3k or fewer), medium (5-10k, most in this bucket are @ 6k) and large (15-25K) these are mostly public schools.

Beyond looking at student totals what does he prefer in terms of classroom experience?  Does he care about class size?  What about clubs/activities? Are the things he is interested on offer with enough scope and variety, if yes size is probably fine.

[b]To the issue of varied interest that can be a problem at schools where you apply to say the College of Engineering vs the College of Arts and Letters.  This killed Northwestern for my DS because his interests were split between 2 schools and he was told that while he could take classes "across the line" he'd have lower priority than students in the other college. [/b] For this reason your DS might prefer those that in the single college model, Harvard and Yale both are but so are Rice and U Chicago.[/quote]

[b]The above highlighted portion is incorrect with respect to Northwestern University. Totally inaccurate ![/b]

Northwestern University has slightly more than 9,000 undergraduate students. Easy to cross-register among schools--other than Theater (rarely, if ever, accepts transfer students) & Music (music requires an audition). But, an engineering student can easily cross-register for courses in the college of arts & sciences. [b]Very easy to double or triple major at Northwestern. Can also do one major and two minors.[/b]

The poster who suggested Northwestern, U Penn, & Chicago hit the nail on the head. Econ is outstanding at both Northwestern & Chicago.[/quote]

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