My Choice In My Life

On May 22, 2016, I will graduated from Harlan Community High School. Then comes the next big step in my life. College. I will have to start college in August of 2016. That is exactly 300 days from right now. That means in 300 days I am on my own. I have a very big dilemma on my hands when it comes to the college decision. I am currently choosing between attending Northwest Missouri State University and attending Iowa State University. I have many different factors to consider when I am choosing. My top three factors are the cost of tuition, size of the college and the town that that college is in, and how many people I will know on campus.
Tuition is a very important to me personally. I do not want to have to spend half of my life after college paying off student loan. If I were …show more content…
I love living in a small town. The population of Maryville is 12,062 people and the size of the town is 5.03 square miles (Maryville, Missouri). The population of Ames 61,792 people and the size of the town is 21.6 square miles (Ames, Iowa). The population of Harlan is 5,027 people and the size of the town is 4.37 square miles (Harlan, Iowa). I am used to having a small population in my town and more used to a smaller town. Ames is about 12 times the population of Harlan and Maryville is about two times the population of Harlan. Maryville and Harlan are very comparable in square miles and Ames is about four times the square miles of Harlan. The amount of people that attend Iowa State University is 36,001 (Enrollment Statistics). The amount of students that attend Northwest Missouri State University is 6,593 (Northwest). I am used to having roughly 500 student in my school. Either school would clearly be a very different change in size, but that will be the same with every college I attend. Even though the size of town and college is much bigger than I am used to, I am sure it will not seem like it is that big when I get