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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Wide lists - 3 kids.

exceeded expectations:
Claremont Colleges
UCLA
GW 
Bowdoin
Columbia
Middlebury
JHU
UNC
Yale
Rice

about what we expected/all positive:
GW
Princeton 
Penn
Holy Cross
USC
Davidson

meh/came up short:
Villanova
Tufts
Amherst
UChicago
Bates
Colgate
Hamilton
Georgetown (x100)
Dartmouth
Harvard 
BU
Swat
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How did Dartmouth come up short? [/quote]

so pretty - but admission session was very blah, then the tour was this guy who kept saying how really impossible it was to get in - and also the kids there were POPULAR and SOCIAL and EMPLOYABLE and COULD LOOK PEOPLE IN THE EYES unlike all the other Ivy League schools (I guess those Princeton and Harvard kids aren't popular or employable). Then we had lunch and - nothing changed my kids' minds. It was a v pretty day and a pretty campus in a pretty corner of the world[/quote]

oh lol, yes that is pretty bad. We had a guy who was the perfect blend of nerdy and super cool. By the end of the tour all the guys wanted to be him and all the girls wanted to date him and everyone wanted to attend Dartmouth. My kid ended up matriculating there and at the parents' weekend this year we took another tour as my husband had never seen the campus. Our tour guide this time was a guy who mentioned how he chose it over Yale and then went off on this for awhile and I tuned him out. It's never great to mention another college when you're a tour guide.

Our all-time worst tour (2 kids, 2 admissions seasons) was Swarthmore. The student actually told us all she that was only there for the financial aid money and really didn't like the school. Great. [/quote]

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