Anonymous wrote:We thought the Oakland neighborhood of Pittsburgh was a cool place with both CMU and Pitt there. But outside Pittsburgh we thought Washington, PA (home of Washington & Jefferson College) was too depressing to consider, which was a shame because the college was a nice place w/nice people.

It could be a cute town, too. It has some really interesting buildings and it's pretty, except for being run-down.

tWe likwd Dubjay too but we routed Allegheny afterwards and Meadville was a lot nicer. I know people on dcurbsnmom rag on Meadville but it has a boho kind of Catskills vibe that spoke to my inner Brooklyn hipster.

Toured Wooster after that. It's the most prosperous town of the three by a lot, and I didn't hate it but it felt a little bland. All the campuses were lovely.

DCUM freak show continues.

Morgantown, WV

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Anonymous wrote:Threads like these are so interesting to me bc I didn't put much stock in towns when applying to colleges beyond the safety around campus factor. I can't imagine writing off a school like Purdue due to the town, especially if I wanted to pursue engineering. Purdue is its own town!

But anyway, different strokes.

The fact it's an hour from the airport is a turnoff for us. That gets costly to arrange travel at every break. Not to mention, I'd rather my DD not be in an Uber/Lyft alone for an hour (I'd want the same for a DS). very different than a 10-15 min ride for many schools.

Not anymore! West Lafayette's airport is going to start having regional airline flights starting in May. That airport's technically located on campus (hence it being called the Purdue University Airport), and is only a ~5 minute drive from the center of campus.

I didn't know this, but I'm not surprised.

Morningside heights in NYC
College Station, TX

Palo Alto

For a down to earth student who isn't striving for a job on Sand Hill Road, it's completely insufferable.

New Haven

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Anonymous wrote:Williamstown - god awful

Gambier Ohio, which didn't really seem to exist

Gambier is Kenyon, and Kenyon is Gambier. It's a great little college town for the right person, but Mount Vernon is the "big city".

There literally is no town of Gambier. The town is the campus bookstore
Weird.

They may not be everyone's cup of tea, but personally I wouldn't put any town surrounded by beautiful scenery and outdoorsy opportunities on a "worst" list, including Williamstown, Hanover, and Ithaca.

Gambier, Ohio is a post office, a coffee shop, and the college bookstore. And then miles and miles of nothingness in every direction. If the college itself was some big, dynamic university, life could be good. But Kenyon is tiny, spread out, and the opposite of dynamic. We visited two weeks ago and just being there was claustrophobic.

Lewiston, ME is the worst.

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Anonymous wrote:Threads like these are so interesting to me bc I didn't put much stock in towns when applying to colleges beyond the safety around campus factor. I can't imagine writing off a school like Purdue due to the town, especially if I wanted to pursue engineering. Purdue is its own town!

But anyway, different strokes.

The fact it's an hour from the airport is a turnoff for us. That gets costly to arrange travel at every break. Not to mention, I'd rather my DD not be in an Uber/Lyft alone for an hour (I'd want the same for a DS). very different than a 10-15 min ride for many schools.

Not anymore! West Lafayette's airport is going to start having regional airline flights starting in May. That airport's technically located on campus (hence it being called the Purdue University Airport), and is only a ~5 minute drive from the center of campus.

Anonymous wrote:College Station, Texas

No way!

+1 for New Haven. Great pizza. Otherwise terrible place to live. Terrible.
Whoever said Lebanon NH is weird. Lebanon NH is a depressing town. But there’s no college there. Dartmouth is in Hanover. Cute town, if you can call it that.

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Anonymous wrote:Threads like these are so interesting to me bc I didn't put much stock in towns when applying to colleges beyond the safety around campus factor. I can't imagine writing off a school like Purdue due to the town, especially if I wanted to pursue engineering. Purdue is its own town!

But anyway, different strokes.

The fact it's an hour from the airport is a turnoff for us. That gets costly to arrange travel at every break. Not to mention, I'd rather my DD not be in an Uber/Lyft alone for an hour (I'd want the same for a DS). very different than a 10-15 min ride for many schools.

FWIW, IU has a shuttle from Bloomington to the airport and vice versa. Purdue might have something similar.