Do Cornell, Dartmouth, WashU and UChicago alums ever go back to campus after graduating?

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Anonymous wrote:With lack of D1 sports and proximity to a major airport or isolated location, I assume visits back to campus are pretty infrequent? While UVA, UMD, Michigan, Duke, Notre Dame, GU and other Ivy alums have D1 sports and/or proximity to airports and major coastal cities, making visits more common?

what's the "major" airport for UVA?

Uh Charlottesville

That’s not a major airport.

Why are you such a dick? Are you a rival Virginia tech student? Charlottesville airport handles 400k passengers a year. I use it monthly. You can get connect anywhere from it. It’s what UVA students use if not the train (I’ve actually witnessed some posters not know that a train services UVA -or they prefer to heckle first and learn later). I connect to UNC regularly or Atlanta. You want MAJOR? Drive 60 minutes to Richmond. You want more? Two hours to National or Dulles. You can also. Easily train to DC. I lived in So Cal for 25 years. You couldn’t pay me to use LAX again. You can’t get anywhere from that MAJOR airport. My Slac out there might be 13 miles as the crow flies but it’s two hours by cab. So I never return

Ok. It’s a MAJOR airport.

Just stop. You add nothing to the post by your comments. Does this make you feel momentarily better? Happier with your lot in life? That we have to waste our time reading your snark? You are not being witty or funny and you waste time. Go to Reddit

I’m sorry you are triggered by the size of CHO.

You are a loser. Saying this as an alum of none of the four schools mentioned. America has a little something called infrastructure… It’s not that hard to get to Ithaca, not to mention St. Louis—smack dab in the middle of the country.

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And Charlottesville has Amtrak and an airport. It’s not really so far removed from DC in terms of accessibility. (Meant to add this to my previous post)

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Anonymous wrote:The Notre Dame alumni I know go back there ALL THE TIME it seems, based on their Facebook posts.

This! My son graduated this year and has already gone back for the first home game this season and even traveled to Dublin for their game against Navy.

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Anonymous wrote:With lack of D1 sports and proximity to a major airport or isolated location, I assume visits back to campus are pretty infrequent? While UVA, UMD, Michigan, Duke, Notre Dame, GU and other Ivy alums have D1 sports and/or proximity to airports and major coastal cities, making visits more common?

what's the "major" airport for UVA?

Uh Charlottesville

That’s not a major airport.

Why are you such a dick? Are you a rival Virginia tech student? Charlottesville airport handles 400k passengers a year. I use it monthly. You can get connect anywhere from it. It’s what UVA students use if not the train (I’ve actually witnessed some posters not know that a train services UVA -or they prefer to heckle first and learn later). I connect to UNC regularly or Atlanta. You want MAJOR? Drive 60 minutes to Richmond. You want more? Two hours to National or Dulles. You can also. Easily train to DC. I lived in So Cal for 25 years. You couldn’t pay me to use LAX again. You can’t get anywhere from that MAJOR airport. My Slac out there might be 13 miles as the crow flies but it’s two hours by cab. So I never return

Ok. It’s a MAJOR airport.

Just stop. You add nothing to the post by your comments. Does this make you feel momentarily better? Happier with your lot in life? That we have to waste our time reading your snark? You are not being witty or funny and you waste time. Go to Reddit

I’m sorry you are triggered by the size of CHO.

You are a loser. Saying this as an alum of none of the four schools mentioned. America has a little something called infrastructure… It’s not that hard to get to Ithaca, not to mention St. Louis—smack dab in the middle of the country.

I never would have guessed that so many people felt so strongly about the size of CNO. Weird.

Charlottesville is a little closer to civilization than the other schools in rural areas but it still usually requires a connection for a flight/train, just like the others.

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Since when is St. Louis "isolated"? There are several daily non-stop flights to STL from the three DC-area airports, and it's a 15 minute Uber from the airport to Wash U. My son is there, and the ease with which he can get to/from campus was a selling point for the school (not a major one, but a consideration nonetheless). No clue if he'll go back to campus a lot after graduating, but if he doesn't...it won't be because STL is hard to get to.

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Apparently you can call a college overrated & full of talentless strivers. But don’t call it isolated!

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Anonymous wrote:I mean, I went to a D1 school near a major airport and I never go back… I didn’t realize this was a thing?

Some people love their alma mater. Some people don’t care and/or are embarrassed it wasn’t upper rung. Universities with thriving D1 sports, especially football, and a large sorority and fraternity scene seem to keep alumni most engaged with campus.

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Cornell and UChicago stand out in being both sort of isolated and having a large percentage of alums who were striving to get into somewhere more prestigious.

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Anonymous wrote:Since when is St. Louis "isolated"? There are several daily non-stop flights to STL from the three DC-area airports, and it's a 15 minute Uber from the airport to Wash U. My son is there, and the ease with which he can get to/from campus was a selling point for the school (not a major one, but a consideration nonetheless). No clue if he'll go back to campus a lot after graduating, but if he doesn't...it won't be because STL is hard to get to.

Nobody is clamoring to visit Missouri in the middle in the darn country. Come on.

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Anonymous wrote:I mean, I went to a D1 school near a major airport and I never go back… I didn’t realize this was a thing?

Some people love their alma mater. Some people don’t care and/or are embarrassed it wasn’t upper rung. Universities with thriving D1 sports, especially football, and a large sorority and fraternity scene seem to keep alumni most engaged with campus.

Then why did OP include Dartmouth and Cornell on their list? They both have D1 sports and a strong greek system.

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Husband and I are ND (me) and Dartmouth (him) alums. We have only gone back to ND once but we go back to Dartmouth every couple years. Hanover is a much nicer place to visit and I could care less if I never see ND again. Not a fan.

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Anonymous wrote:With lack of D1 sports and proximity to a major airport or isolated location, I assume visits back to campus are pretty infrequent? While UVA, UMD, Michigan, Duke, Notre Dame, GU and other Ivy alums have D1 sports and/or proximity to airports and major coastal cities, making visits more common?

Do you know where UChicago is located?

Yes. In the Midwest, in Chicago, way down on the South Side of the city over an hour from the O'Hare. No D1 sports, not much to do around campus, bad weather, not a lot of Greek life. Most of their alums are on the coasts, so that's quite a hike and what is the draw to return?

You understand Chicago has more than one airport, right?

Frankly, you either "get" UChicago or you don't. I don't really see much point to explaining the community's values to people who blather on about D-whatever sports and call fraternities rather than Classics departments "Greek life."

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Anonymous wrote:With lack of D1 sports and proximity to a major airport or isolated location, I assume visits back to campus are pretty infrequent? While UVA, UMD, Michigan, Duke, Notre Dame, GU and other Ivy alums have D1 sports and/or proximity to airports and major coastal cities, making visits more common?

Do you know where UChicago is located?

Yes. In the Midwest, in Chicago, way down on the South Side of the city over an hour from the O'Hare. No D1 sports, not much to do around campus, bad weather, not a lot of Greek life. Most of their alums are on the coasts, so that's quite a hike and what is the draw to return?

You understand Chicago has more than one airport, right?

Frankly, you either "get" UChicago or you don't. I don't really see much point to explaining the community's values to people who blather on about D-whatever sports and call fraternities rather than Classics departments "Greek life."

Seriously. I went there for grad school and miss the awesome independent book stores, my favorite record store, and the awesome coffee shops.

I couldn’t care less that there isn’t a sorority for people to go back to and pathetically try to relive their college Greek life days.

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Anonymous wrote:With lack of D1 sports and proximity to a major airport or isolated location, I assume visits back to campus are pretty infrequent? While UVA, UMD, Michigan, Duke, Notre Dame, GU and other Ivy alums have D1 sports and/or proximity to airports and major coastal cities, making visits more common?

Pretty sure that UChicago has a major airport nearby. WashU also has an airport close by.

Most UChicago and WashU graduates are on the coasts. And no sports. What would motivate someone on the coasts to randomly want to go visit south side Chicago or St Louis? I mean let’s be for real. It’s quite a hike! And it’s not the Michigan or Notre Dame football team.

I’m a WUSTL alum who’s been too busy traveling to see parents and in-laws to spend time on a reunion. But I’d love to go to a reunion.

If the subtext here is, “Do you have school spirit?”, I express my school spirit by giving to the annual campaign and reading people’s LinkedIn entries and seeing who’s a law professor or a billionaire.

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Anonymous wrote:I mean, I went to a D1 school near a major airport and I never go back… I didn’t realize this was a thing?

Some people love their alma mater. Some people don’t care and/or are embarrassed it wasn’t upper rung. Universities with thriving D1 sports, especially football, and a large sorority and fraternity scene seem to keep alumni most engaged with campus.

Then why did OP include Dartmouth and Cornell on their list? They both have D1 sports and a strong greek system.

Elite schools in super isolated cold weather towns.