Google Day #1

Question: What are the factors that will help me to choose a college? 

There are many things that influence peoples decisions of choosing a college. I, for example have many different options of colleges that I would love to go to. Some of them are: Georgetown University, Boston University, George Washington University and finally Brown. Today I will be comparing them to see which one is the best option for me.

Goals: 
*Find out which universities are right for me?
*What are the factors that affect my choice?
*Why would I want to go to this universities?
*How many people from my school have gotten accepted?

The first thing I did was to log onto this page. Here I took an online survey of the colleges. My results were varied depending on the Universities I want to attend. 

Georgetown: 

*Tuition and Fees:$41,393 / $41,393
*School Size:16,937 students
*Average GPA:3.9
*Average SAT Score:2082
*School Type:Traditional College/University
*Campus Setting:Large urban area
All of these were very important for me because the college turned out to be a 97% match. This was pretty   high because I love the location, the school size and the fact that it's a traditional 4 year college. The bad part of all of this were the process and the scores you need to get. I have a 3.7 score and for you to be able to get into Georgetown you need a 3.9. Apart from all of that my SAT score needs to be really high so that I need to take into consideration.


I did the same thing for the other 3 universities. These were the results: 
Boston University:


Tuition and Fees:
$41,420 / $41,420
School Size:
32,727 students
School Type:Average GPA:
3.7
Average SAT Score:
1880
Traditional College/University
Large urban area
This College has more students and that would mean that the acceptance rate is higher. This one would be perfect for me because I love the location, The SAT is not so high and it is in an urban area. But a factor that influences everything is the Tuition. My chance of getting into this school would be of: 91%
George Washington University: 

Tuition and Fees:
$42,377 / $42,377
School Size:
25,135 students
Average GPA:              
 3.79
Average SAT Score:
1925
Location: Urban AreaTraditional University

This school is equally expensive than as rest of them. The SAT and average you need are still pretty high. I liked the dorms in the pictures I saw and the fact that is is in an urban area makes me love this university even more. It was a 92% match :) I love the University, I visited it in the summer and it is really large and has all the things you need for your college experience.

Brown University: 
Tuition and Fees:
$42,230 / $42,230
School Size:
8,525 students
Average GPA:
3.9
Average SAT Score:
2135
School Type:
Traditional College/University
Small urban area

This is the smallest school out of all of the ones I like. The acceptance rate is 9%!!! This makes me really nervous because for example if 100 students apply only 9 would be accepted! That is so so low. This one is the hardest. The GPA is the highest one and the SAT average is so high too. This is my dream college because it is really about you choosing what you want to do. There are no mandatory classes so for example if I don't want to ever take math again I don't have to. The campus is large but it is in a small urban area and this makes me have doubts. 


After looking at all this information I completed a chart of all of the different information about each one: 

	Georgetown University	George Washington University	Boston University	Brown University
Cost $	$41,393 / $41,393	$42,377 / $42,377	$41,420 / $41,420	$41,393 / $41,393
Location	Washington District Of Columbia	Washington District Of Columbia	Boston, Massachusetts	Providence, Rhode Island
Ubann/Rural	Urban	Urban	Urban	Small Urban
GPA	3.9	3.79	3.7	3.9
Amount of Students	16,937 students	25,135 students	32,727 students	16,937
% Accepted	20%	37%	58%	20%
SAT's	2082	1925	1880	2135

How many people from my school go there?
GW: 7
Brown: 0
Georgetown: 1
BU: 8

Links: 
The most helpful website today was THIS one. I say this because the website is very personal and it helps you choose colleges that are right for YOU. This website is amazing it really opens my eyes to the options I have and how to get there.
Another link I used was this one, this helped me chose why I wanted to go to the Universities I selected.

Next Google day I want to...
Look at all this colleges more in depth but using different websites and opinions. I also want to look at more pictures of the universities to see what they're like.
Finally I wast to e-mail some of the people who go to these and see what they have to say about them.