Anonymous
Post 01/22/2025 13:27     Subject: Underwhelming campus experience
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Anonymous wrote:Amherst


+100. Just kind of meh and easy to forget.

100%. It didn’t really feel like a college campus, but a residential camp that happened to have a decent science building down the road. A lot of really boring empty land. Didn’t have the Berkshires or Mt Baldy to recover it.
Anonymous
Post 01/22/2025 08:46     Subject: Underwhelming campus experience
Northeastern. Felt claustrophobic there was no green space or any space really on ‘campus’ and the buildings were ugly
Anonymous
Post 01/22/2025 08:32     Subject: Underwhelming campus experience
Anonymous wrote:Grinnell. Where is the college ?


+1. We were taken aback when we visited the downtown and surrounding neighborhood - its not inviting and is literally middle of no where. Even, not impressed with the college buildings. However, found the kids to be very smart and happy.
Anonymous
Post 01/21/2025 13:01     Subject: Underwhelming campus experience
Anonymous wrote:Amherst


+100. Just kind of meh and easy to forget.
Anonymous
Post 01/21/2025 12:51     Subject: Underwhelming campus experience
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Anonymous wrote:Different strokes, I guess. I loved several of the schools (UVA, Amherst, and more) that others have been underwhelmed by.

Re: dorm tour... I have visited around 30 schools in the last few years and less than half offered dorm tours.

Better than our luck. we saw 2 dorms out of 24 schools. Kid hated Williams and Dartmouth, liked Cornell, loved Penn, Chicago, Harvard, liked William and Mary, hated BOWDOIN. who knows how one decides.


Curious as to why Bowdoin, Williams, & Dartmouth were "hated" by this student.


Probably because they liked a different kind of school (Penn, Chicago, Cornell). They have a very different feel.
Anonymous
Post 01/21/2025 12:48     Subject: Underwhelming campus experience
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Anonymous wrote:Different strokes, I guess. I loved several of the schools (UVA, Amherst, and more) that others have been underwhelmed by.

Re: dorm tour... I have visited around 30 schools in the last few years and less than half offered dorm tours.

Better than our luck. we saw 2 dorms out of 24 schools. Kid hated Williams and Dartmouth, liked Cornell, loved Penn, Chicago, Harvard, liked William and Mary, hated BOWDOIN. who knows how one decides.


Curious as to why Bowdoin, Williams, & Dartmouth were "hated" by this student.
Anonymous
Post 01/21/2025 12:13     Subject: Re:Underwhelming campus experience
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Anonymous wrote:"Ghetto" is very offensive and not PC.


Thanks, language police.

Duke still makes the underwhelming list for many of us.

Duke campus is nice. Surrounding area isn’t. Not a lot to do off campus. Many of the activities listed in the website that drew my kid in were defunct. Very hard to meet people as there is a huge class divide. A little better sophomore year but it was a waste of $$$. Also, how is ghetto offensive? It’s anthem used to describe a shitty neighborhood. They exist and trying to come up with a nicer way to describe it takes away from what it really is.

Can you name the defunct activities? Class barriers exist everywhere.


DP. Can you give it a rest? Are people not allowed to be underwhelmed by Duke? You don’t have to agree with them but they are allowed to have an opinion!

For us, the clubs website listed a culture club, rec sports clubs and cooking club. None of these are active anymore. Some other clubs she joined barely meet and dint have many members. It's been hard to meet new people outside of dorms. Agree with off campus activites...not a lot to do close by.