College Comparison: Stanford & Long Beach

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College Comparison Essay As you slowly edge toward the end of high school, there is an important decision and choice we all have to make. Which college are you going to? Most teenagers dream of that one perfect college, even since they were a kid. But as you grow older, you have to face the truth: What exactly defines the college you want? Many factors play in this decision like location, weather, scholarship, majors, tuition and sometimes even their football team. Two of my choices of my college include Stanford and Long Beach University. They both have many similarities, which make it difficult to choose between the two schools, but they also have many differences which are always nice to fall back on when making a difficult decision. The differences allow one to see what they are missing if they choose the other school and may possibly sway their decision. Stanford and Long Beach offers a different range of classes to choose from, a unique culture, and provides two different types of city-life. The two colleges have their own selection of majors that fit for a specific need of a student. Stanford specializes in medicine and law while Long Beach focuses on natural science and engineering. These classes are used to attract certain types of students that are interested in those subjects so if there are more classes, more unique people are present at the university. “CSULB was also recognized by the publication in one of its other ranking categories – racial diversity. The Long Beach campus ranked No. 5 among all regional universities in the west with a 0.69 diversity index score” (Gloady 5). This is important to get a wider perspective of things to get the best results when doing an experiment or project. Long Beach University offers more majors to choose from because it has more individual colleges than Stanford. “CSULB comprises eight academic

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