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Thank you We sneak in College wanna one location Let's

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talk about the various things you need to consider when

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deciding where to go to call probably ten categories or

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so one of the first ones would be just geography

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and that's What part of the country do you want

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to go to A lot of students want to stay

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pretty close to home and that is totally fine if

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you think you want to be within ten or fifteen

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miles of home there's nothing wrong with that But other

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students want to go thousands of miles away And there

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are a lot of reasons for your looking at different

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parts of the country You might be from california and

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you really tired of how dull the weather actually khun

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b and you think i want to go to new

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england where the walls are beautiful or i want to

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go to the deep south and have thunderstorms I want

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to go to the northwest and have a lot of

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ski slopes available with a lot of snow So geography

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is one of those for sure Another category to think

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about is the setting of the school and that just

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basically means urban or suburban or rural Some of the

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more urban schools would be like in you or usc

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or boston university that air either right downtown or very

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close walking distance downtown Some suburban schools would include places

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like tufts and stanford but they're pretty close to a

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city but not write in it or northwestern on dh

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Then there are the rural schools which a lot of

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students think there is nothing i want to do with

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that they're out in the middle of cows and corning

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freeze but one of the things he find about a

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lot of those places is that they have this really

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super charming little college town and it has all the

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basics You can walk right to it The skies were

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darkened night so you can see stars and yes there

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may be cows out there and porn over here but

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you find that they're actually really tight knit student bodies

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You're also going to talk about the size of the

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university and some of the bigger universities they're going to

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have twenty five thirty thirty five thousand students on the

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campus where it is vibrant and students are walking around

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all day long and they're like small cities unto themselves

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and they can feel either impersonal or really ex setting

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just depending on who you are A lot of medium

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size schools are out there between like foreign ten thousand

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and those air places like the ivies or duke northwestern

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vanderbilt santa clara I think they feel just They're kind

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of in between somewhere And then he had a lot

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of small colleges Typically those air about a thousand students

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up to about four thousand And you find a lot

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of the small new england college is midwestern College is

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not as money on the west coast or in the

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southwest but there are a lot of the small colleges

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where we get a lot of personal attention Consider your

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colleges geography like in what part of the country do

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you want to attend college Consider your colleges setting Do

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you prefer urban sub urban or rural areas like you

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want to go the big city or the big farm

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Examples of urban schools include gnu usc and boston university

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Examples of sub urban schools toughs stanford princeton northwestern rural

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schools feature charming towns tightknit student communities and lots of

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corn and cows Consider the size of your college You

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want large medium or small and fries With that you

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want to attend a large college like twenty five thirty

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five fifty thousand students You want to attend a medium

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sized college five to ten thousand students You want to

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attend a small college one to four thousand students what's 00:03:30.588 --> [endTime] your flavor

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