When picking a school, how did you rank these 3 criteria?

[How did you rank them?]

How did you rank them?

Rank, Cost, Location

 9 (13.6%)

Rank, Location, Cost

 32 (48.5%)

Cost, Rank, Location

 3 (4.5%)

Cost, Location, Rank

 2 (3%)

Location, Rank, Cost

 14 (21.2%)

Location, Cost, Rank

 6 (9.1%)

Total Members Voted: 65

[->Soon]

Im imaging most people are going to put rank at the top, but not all...

for moi, its going to be cost, location, then rank

[almostlegal]

Location was the biggest thing for me, and then rank, then cost.

[paul1454]

Location>cost>rank 

Although I valued rank the least of the 3, I placed heavy weight on regional reputation.

[almostlegal]

Yeah, it's not so much rank as it is reputation, percentage of students with jobs upon graduation, the professors, the class sizes, etc.

Of course, a lot of those are used in determining rank, so....

[->Soon]

Yeah, it's not so much rank as it is reputation, percentage of students with jobs upon graduation, the professors, the class sizes, etc.

Of course, a lot of those are used in determining rank, so....

and if i added all the possible options, it would been 80 choices!

[almostlegal]

Yeah, it's not so much rank as it is reputation, percentage of students with jobs upon graduation, the professors, the class sizes, etc.

Of course, a lot of those are used in determining rank, so....

and if i added all the possible options, it would been 80 choices!

Sorry, Blue.

[t...]

1. Location
2. Total cost
3. Reputation (in relevant market/region)
4. School atmosphere (student body, campus, feel, etc.)
5. College football
6. Clinics/programs/classes/profs
7. Rank

[just dot]

Mine was Location, Rank, Cost.

I'm not interested in leaving my state but I wanted the highest ranked school within this area.

[UFBoldAsLove]

1. Location
2. Total cost
3. Reputation (in relevant market/region)
4. School atmosphere (student body, campus, feel, etc.)
5. College football
6. Clinics/programs/classes/profs
7. Rank

  I understand this one. I think going to Ann Arbor would be amazing.. but it would also be difficult to be surrounded by hard ore football fans that arent rooting for the Gators!

[Special Agent Dana Scully]

rank, location, cost