Are there any top schools that you would NOT send your kid to?

[Anonymous]

We've gotten a ton of mail from a few top colleges that went right into the garbage. Any top schools that you know would not be a good fit for your kid? (Not necessarily that the school is bad for everyone, just that it would not be the kind of environment your DC would thrive in).

[Anonymous]

Cornell has the worts environment... Weather is terrible

[Anonymous]

Penn, Duke Dartmouth, USC, UVA.

[Anonymous]

I would never send my kid to RPI after knowing some of the weird creepy guys that go there.

[Anonymous]

UVA

[Anonymous]

Kid 1 (athletic, super social, etc.) - Chicago, Carnegie Mellon, CalTech, many of the tiny liberal arts schools...

Kid 2 (quirkster) - Duke, USC, Vandy, Penn, Dartmouth, Tulane...

[Anonymous]

UCLA. I worked there and learned that the professors don't care a bit about undergrad education. Most of the teaching was done by 1st year foreign grad students. Do you want to pay for your kid to be taught by a 22 year old ESL kid from Uzbeckistan or China or India or other random corner of the globe? The level of teaching was terrible.

[Anonymous]

Notre Dame, though I'm not sure if that's considered a top school. Too religious and conservative.

[Anonymous]

Penn

[Anonymous]

No state schools, no high greek percentage schools, no religiously affiliated schools, no schools that require a plane ride.

[Anonymous]

Cornell. We visited and absolutely none of the kids looked like they were happy or having fun. And this was a beautiful late September Saturday. Most of the kids we saw were alone and no one was outside hanging out or headed here or there. Every other college we visited, you could see groups of friends eating together, playing games on the quad, etc. Cornell looked depressing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No state schools, no high greek percentage schools, no religiously affiliated schools, no schools that require a plane ride.

Wow. So no Berkeley, UNC, GT ????

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Cornell. We visited and absolutely none of the kids looked like they were happy or having fun. And this was a beautiful late September Saturday. Most of the kids we saw were alone and no one was outside hanging out or headed here or there. Every other college we visited, you could see groups of friends eating together, playing games on the quad, etc. Cornell looked depressing.

haha.....I completely agree and yet DC loved it and applied ED. Go figure.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No state schools, no high greek percentage schools, no religiously affiliated schools, no schools that require a plane ride.

Wow. So no Berkeley, UNC, GT ????

No, not even in the ballpark but mind you I'm a huge, unrepentant education snob.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No state schools, no high greek percentage schools, no religiously affiliated schools, no schools that require a plane ride.

Wow. So no Berkeley, UNC, GT ????

No, not even in the ballpark but mind you I'm a huge, unrepentant education snob.

how old are your kids?