tell me about colleges that didn't make your kid's list

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Anonymous wrote:DC thought Amherst and Wake Forest were beautiful but too precious/insulated.

Driving into Wake felt like entering a country club, complete with a guard house and gate.

It's absolutely beautiful - gate only at one entrance. There are many.

DP. We did a driving tour of over a dozen colleges this summer. Wake was the only campus that wouldn’t even let you drive through.

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Bucknell, Denison, Sewanee
She didn’t want a school that was both small and heavy on greek life (dd is on the fence about rushing and her first choice school has a large greek system)

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Anonymous wrote:DC thought Amherst and Wake Forest were beautiful but too precious/insulated.

Driving into Wake felt like entering a country club, complete with a guard house and gate.

It's absolutely beautiful - gate only at one entrance. There are many.

DP. We did a driving tour of over a dozen colleges this summer. Wake was the only campus that wouldn’t even let you drive through.

NP. A few years ago we were near Princeton and thought we'd drive through campus and you weren't allowed to drive through. Hmm. Wake Forest and Princeton. Never thought I'd type those two in the same sentence.

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It’s so strange to me that kids I this area go to Georgetown. While it’s a great school it’s just so closer to home . I can’t imagine going to college where I run errands. Go and get out!

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Anonymous wrote:DC thought Amherst and Wake Forest were beautiful but too precious/insulated.

Driving into Wake felt like entering a country club, complete with a guard house and gate.

It's absolutely beautiful - gate only at one entrance. There are many.

DP. We did a driving tour of over a dozen colleges this summer. Wake was the only campus that wouldn’t even let you drive through.

NP. A few years ago we were near Princeton and thought we'd drive through campus and you weren't allowed to drive through. Hmm. Wake Forest and Princeton. Never thought I'd type those two in the same sentence.

I don't get this idea that one should be able to"drive through" campus. When we have gone to Princeton, we have parked either in the town or in one of the giant parking lots, and walked around. Why do you need to or want to drive through?

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Anonymous wrote:Texas Christian University is off the list for very predictable reasons

Such as?

DP. Are you asking for real or baiting the PP above you?

It's Texas, which has just recently swung so far right that women are racing to neighboring states for abortions and voting rights are under serious attack. Not to mentiom the hysteria in school boards over so-called "critical race theory."

I get it -- none of that is IN colleges there. But it's become a toxic environment overall in that state. I wouldn't let my kid go there unless it was sole home to the one magical college that was the only one on the planet teaching the only subject on the planet in which DC was interested. Maybe not even then.

You do realize that at least tens (if not hundred plus) million people in this country disagree with you, right?

A very stupid reason for selecting a college. TCU is a great school

While TCU might be a good school for a few students it's located in??? Texas. Who in their right mind sends a college student to a state that has congressmen as "Bounty hunters".

Companies are not recruting from those schools either cancelation after cancelation. Rice is having a very hard time so is UT Austin.

Unless your kid is a genius and wants to work for Elon Musk in Texas, those colleges are out.

Very clever strategy PP- discourage your kid”s competition from this geographic area. I don’t know a kid in DC’s class who would turn down Rice.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DC thought Amherst and Wake Forest were beautiful but too precious/insulated.

Driving into Wake felt like entering a country club, complete with a guard house and gate.

It's absolutely beautiful - gate only at one entrance. There are many.

DP. We did a driving tour of over a dozen colleges this summer. Wake was the only campus that wouldn’t even let you drive through.

1. Great for student safety
2. Many entrances dont have gates.

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Anonymous wrote:Texas Christian University is off the list for very predictable reasons

Such as?

DP. Are you asking for real or baiting the PP above you?

It's Texas, which has just recently swung so far right that women are racing to neighboring states for abortions and voting rights are under serious attack. Not to mentiom the hysteria in school boards over so-called "critical race theory."

I get it -- none of that is IN colleges there. But it's become a toxic environment overall in that state. I wouldn't let my kid go there unless it was sole home to the one magical college that was the only one on the planet teaching the only subject on the planet in which DC was interested. Maybe not even then.

You do realize that at least tens (if not hundred plus) million people in this country disagree with you, right?

A very stupid reason for selecting a college. TCU is a great school

While TCU might be a good school for a few students it's located in??? Texas. Who in their right mind sends a college student to a state that has congressmen as "Bounty hunters".

Companies are not recruting from those schools either cancelation after cancelation. Rice is having a very hard time so is UT Austin.

Unless your kid is a genius and wants to work for Elon Musk in Texas, those colleges are out.

Very clever strategy PP- discourage your kid”s competition from this geographic area. I don’t know a kid in DC’s class who would turn down Rice.

Cite?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DC thought Amherst and Wake Forest were beautiful but too precious/insulated.

Driving into Wake felt like entering a country club, complete with a guard house and gate.

It's absolutely beautiful - gate only at one entrance. There are many.

DP. We did a driving tour of over a dozen colleges this summer. Wake was the only campus that wouldn’t even let you drive through.

NP. A few years ago we were near Princeton and thought we'd drive through campus and you weren't allowed to drive through. Hmm. Wake Forest and Princeton. Never thought I'd type those two in the same sentence.

I don't get this idea that one should be able to"drive through" campus. When we have gone to Princeton, we have parked either in the town or in one of the giant parking lots, and walked around. Why do you need to or want to drive through?

+1 went there this summer. Parked right in front of the school and walked around and then grabbed breakfast in the small quaint town.

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So this is a fun topic. These views represent the opinions/comments of 17 and 18 year olds and took me by surprise -

UNC - Chapel Hill - expected more for the rep/hype but campus and tour just average.

Vanderbilt - Students seemed like sandbaggers (i.e., talk about how much fun they have but really spend weekends in library stressed out) Not remotely a top 10 campus in terms of looks. They paid someone to get ranked that high for prettiest campus.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Texas Christian University is off the list for very predictable reasons

Such as?

DP. Are you asking for real or baiting the PP above you?

It's Texas, which has just recently swung so far right that women are racing to neighboring states for abortions and voting rights are under serious attack. Not to mentiom the hysteria in school boards over so-called "critical race theory."

I get it -- none of that is IN colleges there. But it's become a toxic environment overall in that state. I wouldn't let my kid go there unless it was sole home to the one magical college that was the only one on the planet teaching the only subject on the planet in which DC was interested. Maybe not even then.

You do realize that at least tens (if not hundred plus) million people in this country disagree with you, right?

A very stupid reason for selecting a college. TCU is a great school

While TCU might be a good school for a few students it's located in??? Texas. Who in their right mind sends a college student to a state that has congressmen as "Bounty hunters".

Companies are not recruting from those schools either cancelation after cancelation. Rice is having a very hard time so is UT Austin.

Unless your kid is a genius and wants to work for Elon Musk in Texas, those colleges are out.

Right. the laws of Massachusetts were top on my list when i went to Harvard. Get a grip!

Maybe if there were laws aimed at college age kids that were designed to be enforced by cash incentivized fanatics instead of trained law enforcement professionals, your folks would have sent you elsewhere.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DC thought Amherst and Wake Forest were beautiful but too precious/insulated.

Driving into Wake felt like entering a country club, complete with a guard house and gate.

It's absolutely beautiful - gate only at one entrance. There are many.

DP. We did a driving tour of over a dozen colleges this summer. Wake was the only campus that wouldn’t even let you drive through.

NP. A few years ago we were near Princeton and thought we'd drive through campus and you weren't allowed to drive through. Hmm. Wake Forest and Princeton. Never thought I'd type those two in the same sentence.

I don't get this idea that one should be able to"drive through" campus. When we have gone to Princeton, we have parked either in the town or in one of the giant parking lots, and walked around. Why do you need to or want to drive through?

For those of you obsessed with the “driving” part, it was “No visitors allowed,” not “park outside and walk in.” They shut down the campus completely (and no tours, so it wasn’t like you could make an appointment to see the campus. Every other campus we visited had at least an audio walking tour you could download.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DC thought Amherst and Wake Forest were beautiful but too precious/insulated.

Driving into Wake felt like entering a country club, complete with a guard house and gate.

It's absolutely beautiful - gate only at one entrance. There are many.

DP. We did a driving tour of over a dozen colleges this summer. Wake was the only campus that wouldn’t even let you drive through.

NP. A few years ago we were near Princeton and thought we'd drive through campus and you weren't allowed to drive through. Hmm. Wake Forest and Princeton. Never thought I'd type those two in the same sentence.

I don't get this idea that one should be able to"drive through" campus. When we have gone to Princeton, we have parked either in the town or in one of the giant parking lots, and walked around. Why do you need to or want to drive through?

+1 went there this summer. Parked right in front of the school and walked around and then grabbed breakfast in the small quaint town.

That must have been Princeton. The Wake campus was closed. And security wasn’t the least bit friendly about sharing that information. So we didn’t feel like pushing the issue. DC just decided Wake clearly wasn’t for him. It was just odd that Wake was so much more closed and unfriendly than any other college we visited, including Duke.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DC thought Amherst and Wake Forest were beautiful but too precious/insulated.

Driving into Wake felt like entering a country club, complete with a guard house and gate.

It's absolutely beautiful - gate only at one entrance. There are many.

DP. We did a driving tour of over a dozen colleges this summer. Wake was the only campus that wouldn’t even let you drive through.

We totally lucked out. Visited Wake last spring break. Drove onto campus with no obstacles. Parked in two different spots and walked around, including kids going on a short tour with older siblings of a classmate. Was a sunny but chilly day. Kids decided they didn't like it as much as they had expected.

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UVA- too many recent shootings near the school