A College or University That Your Kid Loved But You Did Not

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Northwestern - they fell in love but I wasn't excited. The location seemed really odd and the campus lacked some cohesiveness. Though surrounding Evanston is a beautiful suburb.

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Clemson. My son loved it, and it's now his top choice. I didn't hate it but didn't see the appeal either.

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Florida. Kid loved it but Mom was not impressed. The tour guide mentioned how responsive the campus police are every 10 minutes and left the impression Gainesville was crime waiting to happen.

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Michigan - just cold and dreary

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Georgetown. Just too Catholic.

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Bowdoin - campus mediocre at best and not easy to get there. Facilities underwhelming relative to bigger schools.

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Penn
Ugly. And tour leaders talked the whole time about how stressful and competitive it was. I hated it and would never want to apply there.

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The last few posters have strayed from the topic by giving no flavor for what their kids loved about these schools.

Predictable, because the overwhelming impulse on DCUM is give in immediately to the hating, resentment, and general insecurity that defines this forum.

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Anonymous wrote:Michigan - just cold and dreary

+1

Also didn’t think the campus or off campus area was anything special. The law school was the only nice part.

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Anonymous wrote:Northwestern - they fell in love but I wasn't excited. The location seemed really odd and the campus lacked some cohesiveness. Though surrounding Evanston is a beautiful suburb.

We both LOVED Northwestern when we visited. Seems like the perfect place to spend your college years, and we thought the campus (especially the south side) was uniquely beautiful.

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Anonymous wrote:The last few posters have strayed from the topic by giving no flavor for what their kids loved about these schools.

Predictable, because the overwhelming impulse on DCUM is give in immediately to the hating, resentment, and general insecurity that defines this forum.

To clarify, the above quoted post was NOT written by OP.

I find all of the comments to be interesting & enlightening. Thank you to all who have responded. Please keep posting thoughts & impressions & reactions.

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Anonymous wrote:Thought I might read about NYU on this thread.

My niece just graduated from NYU. Her parents definitely did not love it but she did.

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Anonymous wrote:Stanford! My kid believed the “intellectual vitality” such pile. I could only see the cheaters that came out of there.

Did you visit Stanford? I assume not.

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I loved UChicago but my kid did not.

My kid loved Carnegie Mellon but I did not. (Kid got WL and I wish kid would move on rather than hoping against statistics.)

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Anonymous wrote:I loved UChicago but my kid did not.

My kid loved Carnegie Mellon but I did not. (Kid got WL and I wish kid would move on rather than hoping against statistics.)

I did not love UChicago. The neighborhood it’s in is total dumpster fire. As a parent, I much preferred Northwestern.