When I was on high school I got it in my head that I wanted to go to Cornell, based purely on the name, I guess.

I went to visit and did not like it. I remember it being very dismal - I think we just got a bad weather day or something.

Anyway, the only thing I really remember about it now is that the tour guide really emphasized that if you had a single dorm room you were allowed to have a dog. And, indeed, I remember the tour guide pointing out several dogs just tied to trees while their people were in class.

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Anonymous wrote:Mine only wanted schools with a walkable Chick fil a

Avoid the more woke campuses, I guess...

Not really. Even UGA has a CFA, and Athens is solid blue. Like it or not, its existence is more regional than political.

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.

DS ranked schools by the quality of the nearest candy stores.

Anonymous wrote:Mine only wanted schools with a walkable Chick fil a

This but Dunkin.

"Ok, so it's a Green Wave. A Green Wave of what?"

Anonymous wrote:Mine only wanted schools with a walkable Chick fil a

Avoid the more woke campuses, I guess...

“I’m not applying to RISD, I don’t won’t to be a Scrotie.” They have to win for craziest mascot.😳

Anonymous wrote:"It's giving gothic and not in a good way."

I love this one! 😂

"It's giving gothic and not in a good way."

Anonymous wrote:Mine only wanted schools with a walkable Chick fil a

LOL. Fair criteria, I guess.

A parent at on an Air Force Academy tour we went on asked if they really had to wear uniforms every day.

Anonymous wrote:Mine only wanted schools with a walkable Chick fil a

Legit reason.

Mine only wanted schools with a walkable Chick fil a

My husband and daughter were on a tour of Yale with a married couple of prospective students, both 18. They asked the tour guide several very specific, nuanced questions about married housing for freshman. The tour guide later told my husband that he’d never been so caught off guard on a tour.

How about some ridiculous irrational reason a school was ruled out? Or a funny story from a visit? Something ridiculous asked on a tour by a parent?

This is not for disparaging any school, this is for recognizing how humorous and nonsensical our teenagers can be in their decision making and how cringey some of us parents are!