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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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