what "good" college did you attend but would not necessarily recommend to your kids or others?

[Anonymous]

Harvard. Lots of insufferable people and lots of nice people with serious mental health issues later.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:NYU: I loved it for grad school but I did not encourage my kids to apply for undergrad. Socially you have to find and form your own group, otherwise it can get pretty hard finding your people. My DH thinks JHU is NOT at all a great undergrad experience. Expectations are different for GRAD school so good for GRAD school.

This was my experience at Hopkins (I went to grad school on the medical campus but lived and studied on the undergraduate campus). The graduate programs (especially medicine, public health, etc) have students from many different backgrounds and from all over the world. The student bodies are interesting and diverse. In the medical school you have athletes, ballerinas, art majors, engineering majors, entrepreneurs, refugees, trust funders, and on and on.

The undergraduates (in my observation)are primarily pre-med gunners. Study, study, study. Very similar kids--can't tell one from another. The library (MSE--Milton S. Eisenhower) was jam packed every Friday and Saturday night--no lie. It just seemed like a sweatshop of a university. My classmates who attended JHU undergrad were all sort of shell-shocked. It think getting into medical school or graduate school at Hopkins following undergrad at Hopkins is akin to the survival of the fittest.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:NYU: I loved it for grad school but I did not encourage my kids to apply for undergrad. Socially you have to find and form your own group, otherwise it can get pretty hard finding your people. My DH thinks JHU is NOT at all a great undergrad experience. Expectations are different for GRAD school so good for GRAD school.

This was my experience at Hopkins (I went to grad school on the medical campus but lived and studied on the undergraduate campus). The graduate programs (especially medicine, public health, etc) have students from many different backgrounds and from all over the world. The student bodies are interesting and diverse. In the medical school you have athletes, ballerinas, art majors, engineering majors, entrepreneurs, refugees, trust funders, and on and on.

The undergraduates (in my observation)are primarily pre-med gunners. Study, study, study. Very similar kids--can't tell one from another. The library (MSE--Milton S. Eisenhower) was jam packed every Friday and Saturday night--no lie. It just seemed like a sweatshop of a university. My classmates who attended JHU undergrad were all sort of shell-shocked. It think getting into medical school or graduate school at Hopkins following undergrad at Hopkins is akin to the survival of the fittest.

Reading this I kinda want my physician to have gone undergrad at JH.

[Anonymous]

Yale. Depressing. Draconian liquor laws

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Not sure it counts as a "good" college, but Syracuse. I had a great time there, but the overall student body is mediocre and not very intelligent, and it is so darn expensive. No way I would let my child attend there today.

+1

[Anonymous]

Grad school at University of Chicago. Intellectually, it was an amazing experience but I mostly learned about how I don't want to act toward other people.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:NYU: I loved it for grad school but I did not encourage my kids to apply for undergrad. Socially you have to find and form your own group, otherwise it can get pretty hard finding your people. My DH thinks JHU is NOT at all a great undergrad experience. Expectations are different for GRAD school so good for GRAD school.

This was my experience at Hopkins (I went to grad school on the medical campus but lived and studied on the undergraduate campus). The graduate programs (especially medicine, public health, etc) have students from many different backgrounds and from all over the world. The student bodies are interesting and diverse. In the medical school you have athletes, ballerinas, art majors, engineering majors, entrepreneurs, refugees, trust funders, and on and on.

The undergraduates (in my observation)are primarily pre-med gunners. Study, study, study. Very similar kids--can't tell one from another. The library (MSE--Milton S. Eisenhower) was jam packed every Friday and Saturday night--no lie. It just seemed like a sweatshop of a university. My classmates who attended JHU undergrad were all sort of shell-shocked. It think getting into medical school or graduate school at Hopkins following undergrad at Hopkins is akin to the survival of the fittest.

Reading this I kinda want my physician to have gone undergrad at JH.

I would want my physician to got his MD degree from JH medical school.
I would careless about where he/she went for undergrad.

[Anonymous]

Ithaca: They’re cutting staff and programs in the communications department (what the school is known for) and it’s not in the best location for jobs

[Anonymous]

Interesting - UC Berkeley sounds a lot like UCSD.

My spouse was a science major at UCSD, and had his first and only panic attack when we visited the campus 15 years after he graduated. The price (back then) was fantastic, but otherwise it sounds like it was a malignant pressure cooker filled with vicious premeds.

[Anonymous]

Cornell. Very depressed student body and too competitive. Plus the weather and location do not help with depression

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Top catholic college as a woman. Why did not someone talk me out of doing that? Solid jesuit education but almost a second class citizen by definition in the faith. Women are not permitted in leadership positions. I would have been better off elsewhere.

Why don't you name the school?

[Anonymous]

TCU: It was a fun school but they’re raising tuition by 5% a year (already >$50k tuiton) and it’s a very academically average school

If my dd got in to Rice I’d happily send her there but I’m not enthusiastic about the idea of sending my kid to college in texas

[Anonymous]

This was my experience at Hopkins

+1 (NP)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Top catholic college as a woman. Why did not someone talk me out of doing that? Solid jesuit education but almost a second class citizen by definition in the faith. Women are not permitted in leadership positions. I would have been better off elsewhere.

Why don't you name the school?

Her problem seems to be the Church. Apparently she doesn't think any woman should go to any college affiliated with the Catholic Church, ever. Which of course is ridiculous.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:TCU: It was a fun school but they’re raising tuition by 5% a year (already >$50k tuiton) and it’s a very academically average school

If my dd got in to Rice I’d happily send her there but I’m not enthusiastic about the idea of sending my kid to college in texas

Rice is amazing. I've been to the campus for work and it is so liberal. So is the surrounding city. Light Bright Happy campus.