Short advice from Trenton Luera to high-school seniors on choosing a college: narrow choices to two or three schools, trust your gut and personal fit over elaborate rankings or spreadsheets, and avoid treating the decision as strictly right or wrong—focus on minimizing stress and choosing what matches your goals.
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If you or your son is a senior in high school trying to decide on what school is the best fit for you, then listen to this. Now, I know it's a really tough decision. At this point. You're probably down to two or maybe three schools. If you have more than that, you need to figure out how to get down to those top three or top two schools. For me, a lot of it is going down to my gut reaction. You should really have a good feel for things on what you want out of a school, and ultimately what's going to be the best fit for you in the first place. There's no point in creating a top 25 ranking and trying to do full spreadsheet to logically make the best decision. That's not going to actually help you make the best decision for you. And also notice how I say best decision. There's really no right or wrong decision. We're only using the information at hand to make that best decision for us at the time. So don't get caught up into, oh, shoot, we made the wrong decision or we made the right decision. There is no right or wrong because your goal should be making this as least stressful as possible and just ultimately making the best decision that would match what you ultimately want and see.