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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]expect to get bashed here but we did - and DS was accepted to a reach school.  Now we will visit, but he’s going regardless of the visit.  In my opinion, there is a ton of data to help kids make informed decisions, and arbitrary crap like a rainy day, snotty tour guide, or empty campus should be kept out of the equation.  Let kid do his research and make the call - if a visit is needed to make the yes or no call, the process was mishandled.  [/quote]

Visits are overrated, sometimes bad visits paint a bad picture of a good school and vice versa. [/quote]
I agree that a couple of hours can give one an incorrect impression but I also remember walking into a campus of a school I thought I would like a lot and feeling the lack of energy in the student lounge spaces, no one hanging out the way I pictured things, etc and knew it wasn’t for me. I was right. [/quote]

DC felt the same way about Cornell.  Bleak, and the students all looked miserable. [/quote]

we went up there to visit the finger lakes, and just were not impressed by Ithaca. We were there in May, so the hiking in the Gorges and such was nice, but the town was very blah.[/quote]

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