Anonymous wrote:Sure hope all that fun doesn’t lead to an accidental pregnancy. At half those schools, the girls would be moms before the academic year ends.

What a hateful thing to say.

Anonymous wrote:Bowdoin had lemon slices in the water cooler. I thought that was a bit spa-like (in an over the top way).

MHC had pianos and free chocolate cookies (throughout the year) in the dorm lounges. And horse stables on campus.

That was as high end as my kid's tours took us.

Yale had lemon slices in the water cooler too when we visited. Beautiful and vibrant campus but felt very intense, nothing like a spa lol

Anonymous wrote:Vandy is in a class by itself re QOL - head and shoulders above the ivies

lol, Vandy mom is back!

Vandy is in a class by itself re QOL - head and shoulders above the ivies

A few of the schools on my DC's list are on here. Wish they weren't - applications might go up!

the schools listed don't provide a high quality of life. If they did Boulder would fill the top 5 spots.

People say it’s depressing but I’ve only seen really happy students at uchicago! Those kids just love school a lot

Anonymous wrote:DCUM makes it seem everyone hates Emory but then....

Emory is known for being not fun, but perhaps the not fun kids are happy to have found one another. It does h e a pretty campus.

From our college visits, UCLA, the Claremont colleges, Bowdoin, and Dartmouth

I have lived in Oklahoma for years and yes, we have color t.v. We also have more EV charging stations per capita than any other state.

Anonymous wrote:“Except that some of these schools may have more students with a far different comparative experiences--what pleases students at Kansas is in part what they are comparing it to“

I get your point, but I just want to assure the DMV folks that they have had running water & flush toilets in Kansas for at least a decade now. And in most counties they no longer have to climb up the telephone pole to make a call as was depicted on Green Acres.

I'm the PP and I'm originally from the midwest. I have young cousins now in rural areas going on and on about how good some random fast casual restaurant is -- when a town a couple of towns away from theirs got a Chipotle they talked about its impending arrival for 2 years. Their families would drive 50 miles to go shopping and to something like a Cheesecake Factory. So now they or their kids are going to their respective colleges and are blown away by the variety offered by the usual Sodexo fare, which my kids are turning their noses up at after a lifetime in the DMV. Fill up a college with kids with similar life experiences and they will be far happier with their "quality of life" than kids who are used to more.

I WISH my kids were that easily pleased--I'm still a midwesterner at heart and I think the cafeteria food at all these schools--even the ones the kids rank awful-- is a million times better than my own dorm food back in the day.

Bowdoin had lemon slices in the water cooler. I thought that was a bit spa-like (in an over the top way).

MHC had pianos and free chocolate cookies (throughout the year) in the dorm lounges. And horse stables on campus.

That was as high end as my kid's tours took us.

Anonymous wrote:Being so happy must be miserable.

Spoken like a native DC area poster

Anonymous wrote:Mostly southern schools. Our resident NE boosters won't like that.

The fact that you noted this is pathetic. The fact that you feel the need to exaggerate the facts is even worse.

I went to a professional school found year after year to have the “happiest” students. Students knew that was the case, the admin repeatedly told us, and they stressed it again literally as they were passing out the annual survey the findings came from. Interestingly, the school is also high in this list.