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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.

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.  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]

Not true for Northwestern.  They encourage double majors across the schools.  [b]You just have to be accepted to both[/b].  I did it 30+ years ago and it continues today.

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Other than for theater or music, I am not sure that this is accurate. (This was one reason given for the high academic credentials needed to major in theater and to be admitted to the School of Communications as one, after being accepted and matriculating, could just switch to engineering, SESP, or another college within Northwestern University.)[/quote]

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