Political & News Media Literacy: U.S. Presidential Election 2000: Who Holds the Power?

You are shocked (#8)

You're pretty confident about your powers of persuasion. You decide that you could probably do a lot to convince young voters to either vote or campaign for this issue by writing a persuasive letter directed to youth ages 18-24 at a key college or university in a certain state. Your high school friend has been doing research on characteristics of colleges at the College Board site. (8. Find a large school in any one swing state.)

Go to http://www.collegeboard.com/
Click on Advanced SearchàAdvanced Search
http://www2.collegeboard.com/search/AdvancedSearch1.jsp

Fill out the survey to find large schools in your state

Another solution

One student found the names of large colleges and universities in a swing state through a Google search on "largest college" at http://nces.ed.gov/pubs2000/digest99/d99t219.html from the Digest of Education Statistics 1998 at the National Center for Educational Statistics.

Challenge #8:
If you know that a certain population or group will react more favorably to your position, how can you modify your search to include schools that have greater numbers of those kinds of students?