What school dropped off the list because of your visit?

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Anonymous wrote:Villanova - admittedly it was a cold and grey day when we went, but the campus felt really uninviting.

Harvard - we didn't do a tour, and DD wasn't really interested in applying, but we popped over to Cambridge when visiting Boston. It felt like a tourist trap!

Duke - the main, historic part of the campus was beautiful, but it felt a bit too manicured - like a Disney world type place. And the rest of the campus was mediocre.

Surprised by all the William & Mary comments - we had the opposite experience! DD loved W&M even more after the tour.

Definitely appeals to different types of kids... my son hated it but my daughter loved it!

Agree - I had one hate it and one love it. I felt like the Colonial Williamsburg aspect can be a real turn off for some kids, even though my DS who attends there considers that a non-issue. I had a friend who's DD saw a Thomas Jefferson walking around the town and said "forget it." My nephew from NC got on the cypher postcards indicating likely admission and I am figuring out with my sister the best time to visit to make him love it!

Haha that could be my DC! She had the exact same reaction LOL so she stayed at the hotel and my son and I did the haunted Williamsburg tour which he loved, and being a history nut, woudl actually probably want to get a job in Colonial Williamsburg at some point during his time there, if he went.

Oh my goodness, thank you for mentioning this! It sounds tailor-made for my American history and all-things-creepy loving 9 year old DD!

Off topic, but Gettysburg has some REALLY scary ghost stories/tours around Halloween (and a bit of history I might add )

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Anonymous wrote:Re Tulane — I spent a lot of my life in NOLA. Tulane is already a very Greek party school and when you add Marci Gras to that you get a school that can really be too much socially for some kids. But extroverted, very socially comfortable kids can go there and love it. I have found when it comes to New Orleans people either love it or hate it with nothing in between.

I have never been to a city that was more DRENCHED in alcohol. And I mean for adults visiting for business, not even college students.

Not my idea of a great place to send a kid living on their own for the first time. .. while I am paying for them to learn.

But luckily, my kid never had any interest in it/the south.

Back before Tulance make a move in the ranks, one of my friends who had serious T1 diabetes went. He promptly got plastered and died freshman year. I will never understand what his parents are thing. Yes, a kid who wants to drink with drink. But, campus culture matters too. And at the time, Tulane was one of the top 5 college for drinkers in the county. Why send a a T1 diabetic to a school where the whole social scene is alcohol?

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Our Princeton tour was just awful. Terrible tour and the info session was not very well put together.

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Anonymous wrote:God, this is all just so bizarre. What if I just want to eat wherever I want? So glad I went to a school that didn’t have this nonsense.

^^Lol!

For all the douche canoes on this godforsaken site that constantly harp about "fratty" culture. Hey people, all schools whether they have a greek system or not have a jacked up cliquey club culture, get over it.

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Our Harvard visit was very disorganized and our tour guide seemed very arrogant. Harvard Square seemed nice.

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Anonymous wrote:God, this is all just so bizarre. What if I just want to eat wherever I want? So glad I went to a school that didn’t have this nonsense.

^^Lol!

For all the douche canoes on this godforsaken site that constantly harp about "fratty" culture. Hey people, all schools whether they have a greek system or not have a jacked up cliquey club culture, get over it.

No, they actually don’t. Schools with no Greek scene (or “eating clubs”) have no such hierarchies. Yes, students make their own friend groups/cliques everywhere, but they aren’t ranked or membership only. So you’re completely wrong, not to mention, obviously charming and not trashy at all.

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Anonymous wrote:God, this is all just so bizarre. What if I just want to eat wherever I want? So glad I went to a school that didn’t have this nonsense.

^^Lol!

For all the douche canoes on this godforsaken site that constantly harp about "fratty" culture. Hey people, all schools whether they have a greek system or not have a jacked up cliquey club culture, get over it.

This is not true.

Many of the SLAC's we visited, for example, allow no clubs on campus that would not accept anyone who wanted to join.

You don't realize how small your world view is. Or what is possible instead of what you have experienced.

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Anonymous wrote:God, this is all just so bizarre. What if I just want to eat wherever I want? So glad I went to a school that didn’t have this nonsense.

^^Lol!

For all the douche canoes on this godforsaken site that constantly harp about "fratty" culture. Hey people, all schools whether they have a greek system or not have a jacked up cliquey club culture, get over it.

This is not true.

Many of the SLAC's we visited, for example, allow no clubs on campus that would not accept anyone who wanted to join.

You don't realize how small your world view is. Or what is possible instead of what you have experienced.

Sure Jan....small world view my a$$, get a life, even your neighborhood has cliques. You're just too naïve to get it.

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Bates. Trinity. Wesleyan.

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Anonymous wrote:God, this is all just so bizarre. What if I just want to eat wherever I want? So glad I went to a school that didn’t have this nonsense.

^^Lol!

For all the douche canoes on this godforsaken site that constantly harp about "fratty" culture. Hey people, all schools whether they have a greek system or not have a jacked up cliquey club culture, get over it.

This is not true.

Many of the SLAC's we visited, for example, allow no clubs on campus that would not accept anyone who wanted to join.

You don't realize how small your world view is. Or what is possible instead of what you have experienced.

Sure Jan....small world view my a$$, get a life, even your neighborhood has cliques. You're just too naïve to get it.

DP. You seem dense. No one said there aren’t cliques. But there’s a difference when you have to beg someone to let you join, and then pay them hundreds of dollars. But if auditioning for and buying your friends floats your boat, knock yourself out.

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Anonymous wrote:Bates. Trinity. Wesleyan.

Can you explain feelings about Bates?

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Anonymous wrote:God, this is all just so bizarre. What if I just want to eat wherever I want? So glad I went to a school that didn’t have this nonsense.

^^Lol!

For all the douche canoes on this godforsaken site that constantly harp about "fratty" culture. Hey people, all schools whether they have a greek system or not have a jacked up cliquey club culture, get over it.

This is not true.

Many of the SLAC's we visited, for example, allow no clubs on campus that would not accept anyone who wanted to join.

You don't realize how small your world view is. Or what is possible instead of what you have experienced.

Sure Jan....small world view my a$$, get a life, even your neighborhood has cliques. You're just too naïve to get it.

DP. You seem dense. No one said there aren’t cliques. But there’s a difference when you have to beg someone to let you join, and then pay them hundreds of dollars. But if auditioning for and buying your friends floats your boat, knock yourself out.

You are the one with a dearth of intelligence...no one said anything about auditioning and buying friends. The comment was clear, cliques exist whether sanctioned or not, it is human nature. To believe any environment where young adults are massed together doesn't include said cliques is dense and naïve. You can site all of the pristine SLAC BS you want, at the end of the day their will be cliques whether your feeble mind wants to accept it or not.

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Anonymous wrote:UVA.

DC is in at Columbia.

Sounds like a humble brag, not a drop based on a site visit.

Nope. DC wanted an urban feel.

Not sure why people are skeptical. I can't imagine anyone visiting UVA and Columbia and wanting to go to both schools. They are so different - if you like one, the other is likely to give you a bad impression.

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Anonymous wrote:God, this is all just so bizarre. What if I just want to eat wherever I want? So glad I went to a school that didn’t have this nonsense.

^^Lol!

For all the douche canoes on this godforsaken site that constantly harp about "fratty" culture. Hey people, all schools whether they have a greek system or not have a jacked up cliquey club culture, get over it.

^^ Douche canoes (!) You made my day PP. Thanks for being you

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:God, this is all just so bizarre. What if I just want to eat wherever I want? So glad I went to a school that didn’t have this nonsense.

^^Lol!

For all the douche canoes on this godforsaken site that constantly harp about "fratty" culture. Hey people, all schools whether they have a greek system or not have a jacked up cliquey club culture, get over it.

^^ Douche canoes (!) You made my day PP. Thanks for being you

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