Underwhelming campus experience

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Anonymous wrote:Yes. Went to Chicago to see UChicago, didn't care for the tour and didn't apply. Meanwhile, did the Northwestern tour only because we were in town, was surprised how appealing it was, applied and now attends.

Exact opposite for us. Northwestern had been top of our kid’s list on paper, but the visit ended that. It was totally lifeless when we visited. I realize that it could have been a fluke, but there was no convincing her. She loved UChicago, which on the day we visited was super lively.

NU is quite lifeless these days. Doesn’t matter when you visit.

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The UVA campus, I mean grounds 🙄, is nice but I found Charlottesville as a town/city to be very disappointing.

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Anonymous wrote:Northwestern. Felt like I was in an office park.

Thank you U Chicago admissions !

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Speaking of office parks - U Michigan engineering campus (north campus). Such a disappointment after touring central campus.

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VCU. Two streets over and its ghetto.

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I remember being super turned off by Yale when I visited as a teen - some combination of the buildings and the way they talked about them. Super insular and inward looking. But, dd visited with dh last year and she really loved the campus (and that it's in a city even though it is NH).

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Penn. Plus Philly is just a small step above Baltimore.

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Anonymous wrote:Yale is like a weird Potemkin Village or movie set.

+1, as someone who got a degree from Oxford, seeing the American attempt at it for the first time was supremely disappointing. I like Harvard’s campus, because it’s very for-it’s-time and distinctly American.

Yalie here saying I can appreciate this. I was a bit thrown when I visited Oxford a few years after graduating from Yale.

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MIT. ugliest campus.

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Anonymous wrote:Northwestern. Felt like I was in an office park.

Same! Hated it

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Bowdoin. The people were nice but the campus is extremely boring. We left wondering what the fuss was about.

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I had a disappointing tour experience at the college I ended up attending and I LOVED my college experience. I wouldn't let an underwhelming visit put you off if vibes are otherwise right. (Of course, if you get a really bad feeling about a place, that's another matter.)

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Anonymous wrote:No push back on opinions, just interested in if people have ever gone to a college campus in person and realized it was not as spectacular as they’d imagined.

Carnegie Mellon.

I thought Carnegie Mellon was super nice! Though we did luck into a perfect weather day, which is def not the norm in Pittsburgh.

It snowed during my niece’s graduation from CM! Still liked the little we saw of the campus while we were there, though.

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Anonymous wrote:UVA

It's a world unesco site. And Poe's room is on display. And Montecello. And the vineyards around C'vile. And the beauty of the countryside. If you can't appreciate any of that then the problem is you so I can tell your kid didn't get in. Take your sour grapes elseshere.

World unesco site doesn’t make something pretty. Why you’re the only one defensive on this thread should really be called to question.

There’s an aggressively defensive Harvard grad here too.

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Anonymous wrote:Northwestern. Felt like I was in an office park.

Same! Hated it

U people are insane-the campus overlooks Lake Michigan and is beautiful all times of the year. Most of the architecture is Gothic looking and dorms are nice. Much better than the hood of U Chicago where there is abundant crime on the regular!