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CHOOSE THE
RIGHT COLLEGE!
It's one of the most important decisions your
youngster will make; here's how to help him go about it.
f ill your son or daughter soon be colleee-
bound? If -so, there's probably a great
deal of discussion around your house as to
which college to go to and why.
Joe wonders if he should go to a small college
or to a large state university. Should Bill go to
a liberal-arts college or to an engineering school?
Joe has heard arguments for and against the
big school. It is said to have better professors,
more varied extracurricular activities, and less
provincialism than the smaller school. On the
other hand, he has heard that a larger school is
too impersonal, that a student is just a number
and not an individual, and that it is easier to
adjust in a smaller college.
Bill's problem looms equally large. He is sure
he wants to be an engineer, but should he
specialize immediately by going to an engineering
school, or should he pick a college of liberal arts
with the appropriate major?
Would it be better if he took advantage of the
so-called 3-2 program offered jointly by many
by Beatrice Burton
of the leading engineering schools and liberal
arts colleges? For instance, Kenyon College at
Gambier, O., combines a liberal-arts degree with
an engineering degree at Carnegie Institute of
Technology, Case Institute of Technology, or
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Middlebury
College at Middlebury, Vt., has a 3-2 plan with
Columbia University, Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, Duke University, . or Rensselaer. A
number of liberal-arts colleges are affiliated with
Illinois Institute of Technology in a similar
combined program.
Meanwhile, Jane is trying to decide between a
girl's school in the East and a coeducational
school closer to her home. Jane's problem is two
fold: (1) Should she go to a school in a distant
part of the country for the advantages of meeting
people with different backgrounds, or should she
go to a college near home because it's easier to
reach and less expensive? (2) Should she choose
the girls' school because it is supposed to be more
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Schools offering science -degrees are
attracting more students, yet many
still prefer more rounded education.
Alternative is offered by colleges
that combine liberal-arts degree
with one in some field of science.
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Another choice facing student: small school with
more personal approach, or big school with more
extensive facilities, such as well-stocked library?
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