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[quote=Anonymous]My mom took me to see Yale when I was in high school.  I wasn't very impressed by the tour and disliked the surrounding town (peak crack era).

Background: I am interested in architecture.  And I had already visited Pitt where I eventually graduated.

Pitt's Cathedral of Learning was more impressive than Yale's similarly styled building (Sterling library).  My reaction was: is this the best you have got?  It's rather short!  (I did really like the Beinecke Library which was indeed a jewelbox.)

Also we were shown the Saarinen residential college where the rooms don't have right angles and so the furniture doesn't fit right.  The tour guide explained this was done to promote creativity.  Ugh.

Prior to this, I had thought that Pitt's pie-shaped Litchfield Tower dorm rooms were the stupidest dorm rooms and it was probably because Pitt couldn't afford a better architect.

So, not sure if it's funny haha, but I learned from a campus tour that prestige and expense does not insulate students from whimsy, impracticality, etc.

I quite probably could have gotten into Yale (female NMF) but I did not bother because I wasn't impressed on the tour.

I'm still irrationally fond of the Cathedral of Learning.  There's an artwork about it called 365 Days of the Cathedral of Learning...it brings a tear to my eye.  As does walking through the ground floor and seeing the ironwork gates in the elevator lobby.  They have a gilded quote welded on them for students: "For you the very stars of heaven are new".

So I find it kind of hilarious as a grownup that I wouldn't give Yale a chance mainly because I didn't like the architecture.  [/quote]

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