For fun: first impressions of colleges based on tours...

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Anonymous wrote:

W&M — foliage and some bridge where people got engaged, using this as a “hook” on the tour repelled DD

I was repelled by that engagement on the bridge hook on the W&M tour 40 years ago when I was searching. Amazed they're still using it and amused it is still having that effect!

Crim Dell is one of my DC’s favorite parts of the W&M campus, so different strokes I guess?

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High Point - If herbalife salespersons started a private school it would be like this

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

W&M — foliage and some bridge where people got engaged, using this as a “hook” on the tour repelled DD

I was repelled by that engagement on the bridge hook on the W&M tour 40 years ago when I was searching. Amazed they're still using it and amused it is still having that effect!

+1
We felt the same way!

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From DD:
Duke: Too pretty (quote "there is something wrong about magnolia trees among gothic architecture")
NU: Too Beautiful
Uof Chicago: Too Intimidating
Emory: Nice but Atlanta meh
Georgetown: Too dirty
NYU: Someone actually pees in the Wash U park fountain? Too Uggh
Rice: The kids look nerdy and not too pretty (there was a group with bed hair and in pajamas). Like

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Pitt - I can’t tell where the school is. Too industrial.

Gettysbreg -too small, not my thing

JMU - I can’t go to a school where the highway cuts right through the middle of it

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Michigan - too cold, too old, they need some modern buildings

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Michigan - too cold, too old, they need some modern buildings

When were you there last? There are all sorts of new buildings...not on the Diag of course, but around the campus.

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Anonymous wrote:Pitt - I can’t tell where the school is. Too industrial.

Gettysbreg -too small, not my thing

JMU - I can’t go to a school where the highway cuts right through the middle of it

Except the highway doesn’t “cut right through the middle.” It divides the campus into two distinct areas - West and East Campus - and is a complete nonissue. It’s not like the highway cuts right through the quad.

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Stanford. (Long shot DC didn't wind up applying to, but still).
Beautiful but isolated campus (my kid realized he would only ever talk to other Stanford folks), and the nice young man who gave the campus tour talked to the group about his DC internship...which make me quietly puke in my mouth a little.

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Wisconsin—are the kids all faking being so nice?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Pitt - I can’t tell where the school is. Too industrial.

Gettysbreg -too small, not my thing

JMU - I can’t go to a school where the highway cuts right through the middle of it

Except the highway doesn’t “cut right through the middle.” It divides the campus into two distinct areas - West and East Campus - and is a complete nonissue. It’s not like the highway cuts right through the quad.

This. No one there cares or notices the highway.

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I took my kid on a tour of St. Joseph's in Philly in June so not many students around. The campus was lovely and compact but it was a hot day. My son's impression of it? "The tour guide has issues walking backward and talking at the same time." Lol! The brain of a 16 yr old. He is interested in business so maybe we will go back when classes are in session and he has more to focus on.

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Tufts - Hilly, looking like Manassas battefield Park
Boston University - no campus, just streets
Boston college - nice campus but countryside feel away from the city
Northeasern: nice modern looking cozy campus right in the middle of the City of Boston

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

W&M — foliage and some bridge where people got engaged, using this as a “hook” on the tour repelled DD

I was repelled by that engagement on the bridge hook on the W&M tour 40 years ago when I was searching. Amazed they're still using it and amused it is still having that effect!

Crim Dell is one of my DC’s favorite parts of the W&M campus, so different strokes I guess?

Same for us. My DC loved the campus!

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DS just visited oberlin and Wooster. Liked Wooster much better than anticipated / admissions rep told him about a professor who offered a class just for 1 kid and he was hooked. Really liked area around college.
Oberlin was too liberal. DS put off by number of girls going braless (?!) “how much personal growth can you have when everyone thinks the same thing?” Very impressed with academics. Completely underwhelmed by little village.