Yeah. UVA kids don't wear the school colors and have no school spirit. Sure. |
How funny. Both DC and I loved these two schools - along with Georgetown! Although SJU gives off a much friendlier vibe than Work Forest. GU was in the middle. Maybe people should look at the “hate” lists and if they like one of the schools, apply to the others! |
What time of year did you visit? There are few college campuses more manicured than Princeton. And when I go back I'm also stunned at how much cushier it is for current undergraduates than it used to be. I give them some money every year to get them off my back, but not nearly as much as I give to the public high school I attended, which is now majority low-income and where some of the kids can really use some extra help to attend college. |
Ha! If he thought uva has social class issues, he would’ve drowned at an Ivy. |
When we went on a tour, we kind of roamed around through the lawn when the tour guides started and listened in on a few and picked the guide we like the best. I agree that guides can really affect how someone feels about a place. |
Does anyone else find this to be an entitled attitude? You can all be assigned a guide, we will make our own rules? |
We weren’t assigned a guide. The inside portion of the tours were booked, and the Admissions Office told us to just join in on the outside portion somewhere. |
Pre-COVID:
John's Hopkins - he thought it was a fun city school Georgetown - too close to home and the tour guide was condescending UVA - it was raining. Literally, that was his complaint Lesson learned - 18 years are going to act like 18 year olds and they may pick a very superficial reason during a visit not to like a school. Just go with it. |
Very true, and so can the weather. I was a tour guide in college and could tell on rainy days that it just wasn't working. Conversely, when it was a beautiful day and people were hanging out on the quad, playing frisbee with a band playing outside the dining hall, you could totally tell you were making the sale. |
+1 DS saw W&M on a dreary day and said it was a definite no. Specialty tours/sessions also can really make a difference. Took DD to a STEM panel at W&M and it was three girls chattering away about their research interests and DD could absolutely see herself hanging out with them so it went high on the list even though the tour itself was nothing special. |
Tour guides have such a big impact. I think one of the things that gave DS a great impression of VT is that we had two guides for the tour (one male, one female) so he got multiple perspectives on the school. It was also a beautiful day. Came away with it as his first choice. |
A lot of these reports sound more like confirmation bias. |
We didn't have much choice -- we'd flown to see a distant school that seemed like it fit all my kid's criteria. Then it rained. That my kid was still interested after that was a sign it was the right place, I guess. (When I was in high school, my parents swung through Oberlin on a family vacation. It was gray and humid and I had a migraine, so I get the impact of peripheral stuff on a response to a college, but what can you do? I like pretty much every Oberlin grad I've ever met as an adult, but I wasn't interested in going. Things work out.) |
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