Will Pathwise hide Trinity if I say I want a big campus?

Not if that preference is low confidence. Soft preferences score. Only a hard size constraint excludes.

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Is a big school actually right if you are not sure?

Wanting a bigger school with low confidence is a feeling, not a filter.

A lot of Texas students say they want a bigger school because that is what a college is supposed to look like. Stadium. Crowd. A name people recognize at Thanksgiving.

Size is real. Forty thousand undergraduates is not two thousand. Faculty access, how you find a lab, whether swimming is a team or a club: those change with headcount.

If you are not sure, Pathwise does not hide the smaller campuses. Low confidence shrinks the weight. It does not delete the school.

Look at sourced undergraduate counts next to each other. Then walk a campus, or sit with one hidden-fit page for twenty minutes, before you let “bigger” decide.

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Will Pathwise hide Trinity if I say I want a big campus?: Not if that preference is low confidence. Soft preferences score. Only a hard size constraint excludes.