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.

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?

You can’t drive “through “ Princeton like you can’t drive through Harvard . PP doesn’t know what she’s talking about and making judgements. Not uncommon for DCum. A lot of the older schools were built in the railroad and buggy days so of course you can’t drive through them. And why would you want to?

This is so typical of DCUM — sustained focus and outrage over an insignificant detail. I agree that you can’t drive through the heart of most college campuses, but most can be seen, at least in part, from a vehicle, which seemed like a good thing to do during peak covid when all the tours had been canceled. I’m the pp re: Wake, and point wasn’t about the “drive,” it was that Wake was the only college we encountered (even during covid) that had a manned security gate with a very large sign that said “No Visitors Allowed on Campus.” I’m sure there are others that did this, but the school gave off a very unwelcoming country club/exclusive resort vibe. Wake is in suburban-looking area, and the entries to campus that we saw were on major streets with no parking, and there was not an obvious place to park and sidewalks to walk into campus on, even had we been inclined to ignore the sign that told us not to.

We’re not talking about Wake, we’re talking about Princeton and the ouster above who seemed to think she was entitled to drive through. And concluded with a “hmmmm” as if that something. we are responded to that because it’s a weird statement and no I have no affiliation with Princeton, just know the campus. If someone says something judgmental about a school here it’s free game yo correct them, whether you like it or not.

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Anonymous wrote:UVA. There is something just so sinister about Charlottesville. I can’t put my finger on it.

the southern gentlemen who want to preserve ol virginny, perhaps?

The city of Charlottesville is wacky liberal. Look it up.

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Anonymous wrote:UVA. There is something just so sinister about Charlottesville. I can’t put my finger on it.

the southern gentlemen who want to preserve ol virginny, perhaps?

The city of Charlottesville is wacky liberal. Look it up.

Yeah, except for the armies of white supremacists who periodically occupy the city and terrorize it’s inhabitants. Look it up.