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Thank you We sneak in College versus university What's the

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difference between a college and university so universities air generally

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much bigger thin colleges and you find a lot more

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in terms of offerings of extracurriculars and majors for example

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at a lot of the universities they have individual colleges

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within them that some of the colleges the small colleges

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don't actually offer So an example would be at cornell

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university they have their own college of agriculture There are

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a lot of colleges have a college of communications or

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journalism a college of nursing public health but small colleges

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don't offer those on so i think in terms of

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students searching for things the big universities have a lot

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more majors But you should be actually considering Do i

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really need to have that college at the big university

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or are you okay with the smaller college that has

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pretty much the standard fifteen agers that will carry you

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very far in life anyway But there are a lot

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of students who think i really need that big university

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for other reasons to like big time school spirit If

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you go to the university of michigan a saturday football

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game i'd have a hundred thousand people in the football

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state at a small college sometimes they might have a

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thousand fans at a football game so you never quite

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know in terms of the differences extracurricular activities will be

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a lot more abundance at the big universities but that's

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not to say that small colleges don't have them too

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small colleges do a great job but having students that

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were kind of the self driven people who make things

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happen and they look for that in the applications because

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they know they don't have a big university so they

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want students who are going to make clubs found different

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organizations and make a really vibrant thriving campus on the

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weekends So even if you don't have a big university

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you got a small college with a lot of exciting

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things going on How about any other factors like more

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academic stuff facilities class size Yeah a lot of universities

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have really big lecture halls on dh that could be

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kind of a standard where you might have honestly a

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four hundred students in your class is in this enormous

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arena you're going and the professor is a speck way

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down on the stage class ends and they disappear out

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the side door never to be seen again until the

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next class A small college the biggest class he might

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have could be forty or fifty students and if you

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miss class the professor knows it The professor emails you

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shows up your dorm that's a little creepy but they

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might say you know where are you Where he's sick

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They need the lesson plan Do we need to meet

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so small Colleges typically have those places where there's a

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lot more attention for students You also find sometimes much

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bigger greek systems At the bigger universities guaranteed housing is

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offered at small colleges Where is a large universities It

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might be one year on campus if you're lucky and

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any move off campus for the next three years Universities

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are much bigger than colleges Universities can house many different

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colleges with many more majors than just a standard college

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Universities are gonna have way more school spirit and your

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average college no universities are going to have more extracurricular

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activities than most colleges Colleges prefer students who will start

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their own clubs and found new organizations within their campus

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Universities can have really big lecture halls with class sizes

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as big as four hundred students Colleges have much smaller

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classes like forty to fifty people Max with better access

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to your teachers Universities can have bigger greek systems than

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colleges College is typically offer mohr years of guaranteed housing

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than universities Try sleeping in a tent not far Uh

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