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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]These impressions come from my two DCs and myself over many years (OP asked for fun takes):

UVA - very pretty and charming, but AO's presentation was offputting and student guide kept talking about how he had really wanted to go to an Ivy

VTech - Gothic prison run by turkeys

[b]W&M - retirement home run by colonial-era cosplayers[/b]

Villanova - very small (I know it's not), very Catholic, very safe

Georgetown - compressed feel; younger child said it looked like a larger version of Gonzaga College High School

UNC - more accessible version of UVA (town and university better integrated)

Duke - very high-end shopping mall

Stanford - even higher-end shopping mall

Berkeley - students and homeless reeking of pot

Pitt - area near Tower of Learning is very nice, surprisingly international; area near hospital looked more run down

Michigan - 1950s era architecture surrounding faux-Ivy (law school) and ultra-modern (business school)

Harvard - confused about who is from the university and who is a tourist

Amherst - mini-Harvard, but with a beautiful hill/cliff overlooking the athletic fields

Dartmouth - upscaled prep school in the middle of nowhere

Williams - mini-Dartmouth

Yale - beautiful campus surrounded by meh

Wesleyan - mini-Yale

Cornell - peaks and valleys everywhere

Brown - should have been named Beige

Penn - criticisms of location and environment overblown, actually pretty nice

Columbia - Ghostbusters!

NYU - who actually attends classes here?

Johns Hopkins (medical school) - felt like the Matt Damon movie Elysium brought to life

BU - Fenway Park

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W&M--the funny thing is that this was almost word for word the first impression for my DC (who now goes there!) --He almost skipped out on doing the full tour.  But we were there so we did it and he was impressed by the school. Then, after meeting with students and hearing that they have social lives and parties and don't really do anything connected to CW, W&M became his first choice, and he loves it there.

So for all the first impressions, sometimes they shift![/quote]

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