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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have four children and have visited numerous schools...our thoughts:

UVA...admissions was arrogant and impersonal...[b]they do not register your visit...they do not care much....that read is heavy[/b]..One child went there to grad school (law) and loved it.  But with undergrad, no one liked the campus much... vibe was a bit snobby.

W&M...plays up the quirky vibe.  Served my bright and shy daughter well...she went there and loved it...the other three...not their scene.  I was a huge fan, of course, as I went there.

W&L..too small, too claustrophobic..too archaic.

Wake forest...cheaper W&M without the better restaurants and the area was a bit downtrodden .

ND..cold, yet vibrant , cloistered, but spirit was infectious...(1 son  went there )

Elon, 3 called it a bit phony...I liked the groomed stepford vibe

USouth Carolina...sketchy is what son called it

College of Charleston..."like going to school on a vacation in a budget hotel'....(I wish this school was better, because i love this city)

Colgate...at first she loved it and then she went in the dorms. And is the middle of absolutely nowhere

Lehigh..at first she loved it, and then the hills and the old buildings brought things down.

Bucknell...way to fratty, and what do we do if we don't frat?

Quinipiac..."like summer camp.".I actually thought is that a bad thing?

Syracuse...the town was a downer...but near a great mall, and they have underground tunnels for the cold. Still wonder that might have been an Ok choice.

Providence...the town was a downer...but boy, the staff was so friendly.

Duke...pretentious, gothic gloom, but if my kid got in...i would have forced them to go?

Fairfield...Old fashioned was his response...but I wonder if that may have been an Ok choice for business.

Mary Washington..mini W&M without the prestige

CNU...lovely...no engineering, which what he wanted. and it is in Newport News..so nope

Villanova...unfortunately saw in a deep freeze., Campus is just not that pretty and undergoing construction at the time..lost out to Boston College for this daughter.

Va Tech..drive by..too big..she said too much stone...really?

JMU..drive by..highway in the middle..nope.

There were others, but thats my main input[/quote]

Any large public and large private cannot track demonstrated interest, either because it costs money to do that or because the university does not have to! We toured Princeton - it doesn't track.  Harvard doesn't track.  GMU doesn't track.  Yale doesn't track.  UVA received almost 50K applications this past year.  It doesn't need to track demonstrated interest.  You need to understand this before your tour.  Only the colleges other lower-level institutions concerned with the climb up the USN&WR "yield" chart track demonstrated interest because they are concerned about yield numbers.  If anything, that should be a concern.  FWIW, DS didn't like his first tour of UVA.  It was blisteringly hot, during the summer, uncomfortable, he didn't get to see any dorm rooms (My SLAC doesn't do that either; GMU and Virginia Tech had a model room to see), couldn't get in the engineering building, etc.  Second tour completely changed his mind.  But the bigger universities really don't care about you, your kid or tracking interest because they don't need you, your kid, or their interest.  If anything, the best universities are concerned about oversubscription this year.  So before you tour, please check to see if the institution (easy google) tracks generated interested.  I think you'll find the large, top flight universities do not.  But some of the top flight SLACs don't either - Wash. & Lee didn't the year we toured - that may have changed during Covid - because it doens't need to.[/quote]

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