Which college should i go to Washington State University or University of Oregon?
College is coming up, and im the most indecisive person in the world, so i decided to have people give me their input on which one they would prefer and why, because in the end i think it would help me have a more stable outlook for my future.. Anything Helps for reall...
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Answer 1 :
Well, first of all, I live in Eugene so I'm probably biased, but I'll try to be neutral. They're both big PAC--10 (sports) schools. As schools, there's two big differences. WSU is the land-grant school in WA, and that means they have the agriculture department and engineering schools. Of course, they offer the other things, too. In Oregon, Oregon State University in Corvallis would be the corresponding university. The UO is larger (21,000 students this year and growing). It has more of the liberal arts and the pure sciences. UO has no engineering or agriculture departments. It has the Librarian school, the Law School, and a Fine Arts and Architecture department. There's far more art here. The cities and the climate are very different. Pullman is a small place and the university totally overwhelms it. The nearest town, Moscow, Idaho, is home to another school, the U of Idaho. Pullman has severe winters, with temps zero and below. It is fairly dry though. Eugene is much larger (160,000) and maybe another 100,000 just outside the city limits. Once you get a half mile away from the U, you might not even know there was one around; the school does not overwhelm the city. The winters are very mild, rarely getting below freezing. But it does rain in the winter -- maybe 8 inches in each of Dec and Jan, for example -- and none of it falls as snow. It also rarely rains hard, so it drizzles a lot. It's cloudy a lot in the winter, too. On the other hand, there's great skiing an hour away (to the east) and the ocean an hour to the west. If you want to be an engineer or a farmer, go to WSU. Otherwise, choose based on the city and the weather. Just my opinion, of course.
Answer 2 :
University of Oregon. I attended Oregon my freshman year, it had its ups and downs but I would definitely say its a much better atmosphere than WSU
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