What school dropped off the list because of your visit?

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Anonymous wrote:No chip...the kids got in...just their trip report..

Your kids are just as miserable as you! Awesome, you did well!

I'm sorry...am I missing something here?

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Anonymous wrote:I took the opportunity to grab some time with the kids...we drove most places and got hotel deals ..I treasure those memories. The youngest tagged along.. but had to repeat a few as he was not paying attention of course.

I have no problem with your list in fact i have two DCs and we have been to about as many schools. Why people are picking on you here, who knows. I agree with alot of the kids sentiments though, especially on Villanova, Syracuse, Providence, Tech, JMU, U of SC...

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Anonymous wrote:I took the opportunity to grab some time with the kids...we drove most places and got hotel deals ..I treasure those memories. The youngest tagged along.. but had to repeat a few as he was not paying attention of course.

I have no problem with your list in fact i have two DCs and we have been to about as many schools. Why people are picking on you here, who knows. I agree with alot of the kids sentiments though, especially on Villanova, Syracuse, Providence, Tech, JMU, U of SC...

I find it impressive as we are just starting this process. I hate driving and road trips so it will be hard to muster the interest for a lot of visits.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:No chip...the kids got in...just their trip report..

Your kids are just as miserable as you! Awesome, you did well!

Something is wrong with you. She did not insult you personally. Stop attacking her. I appreciate her perspectives. My alma mater is on there (duke) and she wasn't too positive about it either, but she's entitled to her opinion!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No chip...the kids got in...just their trip report..

Your kids are just as miserable as you! Awesome, you did well!

Something is wrong with you. She did not insult you personally. Stop attacking her. I appreciate her perspectives. My alma mater is on there (duke) and she wasn't too positive about it either, but she's entitled to her opinion!

I am entitled to my opinion as well so you know, pound sand and GFYS.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No chip...the kids got in...just their trip report..

Your kids are just as miserable as you! Awesome, you did well!

Something is wrong with you. She did not insult you personally. Stop attacking her. I appreciate her perspectives. My alma mater is on there (duke) and she wasn't too positive about it either, but she's entitled to her opinion!

LOL, you went to Duke, couldn't even conjure up the feeling to capitalize it. We are all entitled to our opinion as you say, my opinion is she, and you are useless whack jobs with negative opinions. I give zero $hit's what your feelings are and what perspectives you appreciate.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No chip...the kids got in...just their trip report..

Your kids are just as miserable as you! Awesome, you did well!

Something is wrong with you. She did not insult you personally. Stop attacking her. I appreciate her perspectives. My alma mater is on there (duke) and she wasn't too positive about it either, but she's entitled to her opinion!

She was positive about Duke in a way. I think she was saying it didn't quite do it for her but she'd still really feel tempted to force her kid to go there if they happened to get in.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No chip...the kids got in...just their trip report..

Your kids are just as miserable as you! Awesome, you did well!

Something is wrong with you. She did not insult you personally. Stop attacking her. I appreciate her perspectives. My alma mater is on there (duke) and she wasn't too positive about it either, but she's entitled to her opinion!

LOL, you went to Duke, couldn't even conjure up the feeling to capitalize it. We are all entitled to our opinion as you say, my opinion is she, and you are useless whack jobs with negative opinions. I give zero $hit's what your feelings are and what perspectives you appreciate.

Is the wine flowing freely tonight?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I took the opportunity to grab some time with the kids...we drove most places and got hotel deals ..I treasure those memories. The youngest tagged along.. but had to repeat a few as he was not paying attention of course.

I have no problem with your list in fact i have two DCs and we have been to about as many schools. Why people are picking on you here, who knows. I agree with alot of the kids sentiments though, especially on Villanova, Syracuse, Providence, Tech, JMU, U of SC...

I find it impressive as we are just starting this process. I hate driving and road trips so it will be hard to muster the interest for a lot of visits.

A lot of times you can pop by places while on vacation. We saw three UC schools on one trip out west. Doesn’t mean we did a full tour but walked around campus etc.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No chip...the kids got in...just their trip report..

Your kids are just as miserable as you! Awesome, you did well!

Something is wrong with you. She did not insult you personally. Stop attacking her. I appreciate her perspectives. My alma mater is on there (duke) and she wasn't too positive about it either, but she's entitled to her opinion!

LOL, you went to Duke, couldn't even conjure up the feeling to capitalize it. We are all entitled to our opinion as you say, my opinion is she, and you are useless whack jobs with negative opinions. I give zero $hit's what your feelings are and what perspectives you appreciate.

Is the wine flowing freely tonight?

Not the PP but it's Friday so YES!

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The negative vibes on my lengthy visits post are upsetting. These are my kids impressions of their campus tours and remember they were seventeen or so. My comments followed. The Wahoo who responded so negatively may not have read that my son who did attend law school at UVA loved it as I duly noted. His jab at the chip on my shoulder about W&M maybe did not catch that three out of four of my children were not impressed with their visit. The Duke responders should register that I was still in favor of them applying . This thread was about visits to colleges..not the schools themselves. Everyone kindly sip your wine and back the fork off.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The negative vibes on my lengthy visits post are upsetting. These are my kids impressions of their campus tours and remember they were seventeen or so. My comments followed. The Wahoo who responded so negatively may not have read that my son who did attend law school at UVA loved it as I duly noted. His jab at the chip on my shoulder about W&M maybe did not catch that three out of four of my children were not impressed with their visit. The Duke responders should register that I was still in favor of them applying . This thread was about visits to colleges..not the schools themselves. Everyone kindly sip your wine and back the fork off.

My kids had the same comment about Elon!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The negative vibes on my lengthy visits post are upsetting. These are my kids impressions of their campus tours and remember they were seventeen or so. My comments followed. The Wahoo who responded so negatively may not have read that my son who did attend law school at UVA loved it as I duly noted. His jab at the chip on my shoulder about W&M maybe did not catch that three out of four of my children were not impressed with their visit. The Duke responders should register that I was still in favor of them applying . This thread was about visits to colleges..not the schools themselves. Everyone kindly sip your wine and back the fork off.

Yes, sip indeed. If you need to come back and explain yourself because other's took your original message the wrong way than bless your heart...you went to Duke and know what that means.

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Anonymous wrote:Harvard. One of the most unimpressive, inarticulate tour guides we had anywhere. The overall event felt like they were phoning it in and didn't care what people thought.

Interesting- I expected to hate this tour/info session and to my surprise was really impressed by ours. It’s not like Harvard needs to put a big effort in to these tours, but I thought they did a great job. Only thing I didn’t like is the crowd size, probably at least 800 people so it really did feel like the tourist activity that it is. My dd didn’t end up applying there in the end but we both came away with a more favorable view of Harvard than we expected to.

Harvard and Cambridge are incredible. And who decides on a school based on the tour guide? I’m surprised so many people are swayed by that instead of the feel and look of the campus.

My DD literally loved/hated schools based on tour guide. Drove me crazy.
Brown: "She was so nice!"
Dartmouth: "He was sooooo weird, no way am I going to school with people like that."
CMU: "I liked her clothes and she was friendly."
Case: "He seemed normal."

A little bit of an exaggeration on my part but not that far off.

THIS! Along with the college concept of “let a 17 yo HS student decide” they have so little life experience and it is a very important decision.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The negative vibes on my lengthy visits post are upsetting. These are my kids impressions of their campus tours and remember they were seventeen or so. My comments followed. The Wahoo who responded so negatively may not have read that my son who did attend law school at UVA loved it as I duly noted. His jab at the chip on my shoulder about W&M maybe did not catch that three out of four of my children were not impressed with their visit. The Duke responders should register that I was still in favor of them applying . This thread was about visits to colleges..not the schools themselves. Everyone kindly sip your wine and back the fork off.

I liked your lengthy post and had many good points. I know everyone LOVES UVA but I was very turned off by the parent conference. The 2 class system is alive and well at UVA. declined.