Parent of a middle schooler here. I won't have the money to go on college tours so do colleges put a negative next to your child's name if they don't visit the campus before applying. It seems to make more sense to save my limited funds to visit the schools he does get accepted to.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The chip on your shoulder about Harvard is readily apparent.

+1

Also, LOL about not living off campus. In one of the most expensive cities in the country.

I guess if you hail from Ashburn or the like, you find historic Cambridge "dingy."

She also doesn't understand the "Houses" and why you affiliate with a House after your freshman year.

Wash u, northwestern, u Chicago and Indiana

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The chip on your shoulder about Harvard is readily apparent.

+1

Also, LOL about not living off campus. In one of the most expensive cities in the country.

I guess if you hail from Ashburn or the like, you find historic Cambridge "dingy."

NP. If you hail from Ashburn or the like and you're looking at BU....

Anonymous wrote:The chip on your shoulder about Harvard is readily apparent.

+1

Also, LOL about not living off campus. In one of the most expensive cities in the country.

I guess if you hail from Ashburn or the like, you find historic Cambridge "dingy."

GMU. New job and too busy to go anywhere.

Wisconsin

Marquette
Loyola University Chicago
U Wisconsin
Notre Dame

Southern California schools. DC's tour yesterday at one of the Claremont colleges was filled with kids from the Washington DC area.

Some local schools like GW, Maryland and Hopkins, then Richmond. Also going to see Kenyon and Denison.

The chip on your shoulder about Harvard is readily apparent.

Anonymous wrote:Visited UPenn, Swarthmore, NYU. Going to Washington University, Northwestern, and UWisconsin.

Hey 06:57, add Wash U and we have the same itinerary. Visited UChicago last October. Great minds think alike! Now to just get in!

Visited UPenn, Swarthmore, NYU. Going to Washington University, Northwestern, and UWisconsin.

Going to Northwestern, U of Chicago, maybe University of Wisconsin...

curious about where you've been and what your initial impressions were. We just spent a week in Boston with tons of other families from NOVA. My DC has seen close to 10 kids she knows. We liked Boston so much better than I expected, and frankly, more than I wanted to. We found BU and Northeastern's urban campuses to not be so awful. Both gave off a more safe, clean vibe than Harvard. We were surprised to find Cambridge more dingy. While Harvard seemed proud that close to 90% of students live on campus all 4 years, my kids joked that it's probably because they don't feel safe living off-campus. Tufts made a strong showing this week with its smaller campus and mix of LA and science. My DC is interested in engineering and math, btw.