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its probably really hard for any of us to give good advice because there are so many personal factors and each of us has only attended one or maybe 2 colleges s

• tokenadult 18y ago
  you should just make a list of pros/cons and trust your instincts Agreed that ultimately the applicant has to decide, if he is in the position of having more than one offer of admission. No applicant should feel bad about disagreeing with someone else's sincere advice, including the sincere advice of a parent. Nonetheless, sometimes an applicant knows himself better after feeling his own reaction to someone else's advice. I ask here because I was a language major as an undergraduate, and not particularly entrepreneurial, and now I am a math coach and am getting into college advising with my more sci-tech-interested clients, some of whom would like to grow up and run for-profit businesses. Within my own family, I don't have lore to pass on that is fitting for my oldest son (who will go through the application process at the end of this calendar year), so I appreciate hearing everyone's advice here.