We sat down to eat a meal in Cornell's cafeteria. A female student came up to us and said how dare we sit in her usual spot for lunch, and it was her table. Quickly ruled that one out.

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Anonymous wrote:Northwestern Tourguide talked incessantly about the ski club and how great they were. Every question was answered with, I don't know, I've heard good things about that, but there's an amazing ski club. None of the parents and none of the kids on the tour gave a sh:t about the ski club. Became a family joke for us, whenever you don't know the answer, say, "I don't know, but there's this amazing ski club." Still cracks us up

That’s weird — is there skiing near northwestern? My kid is there and I’ve never heard anything about this.

Low-grade skiing in WI within a few hours, but no, not really.

but it is an AMAZING ski club

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

This but Dunkin.

This but Chipotle.

Yes …chick-fil-a and chipotle for my DC. They were google mapping while in the info session at Tufts. Both were pretty far.

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Anonymous wrote:One of mine only wanted to go to a school with unlimited swipes in the dining hall. Another one said no to a school if he thought the logo/design on the basketball court was "ugly." And no, my DC was not an athlete and would only be attending basketball games as a fan.

I don’t think the unlimited swipes thing is silly at all. I hear that BC freshman are so hungry all the time because they nickel and dime them at the cafeteria (and it’s really an issue for those on limited budgets).

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Anonymous wrote:We went to university of Arizona and there are a million cute little automated robots delivering fast food orders to students in class or dorms or just sitting outside. They wait to cross the road. Like they are checking to see if the coast is clear. We were wondering how many of them get hit by cars and bikes. They made me think of if BB8 worked in the fast food industry.

My daughter refuses to go to any school that has these robots. We've seen them at GMU and JMU. She says she is scared they are going to rise up and cause some type of robot revolution

OK, I can totally see my daughter saying that!

I just wonder how they don’t get robbed of their deliveries half the time.

I think there’s a keypad and you must get the code when you order. They are so cute I can totally see them being the advance guard for Skynet — that’s always the way the invading force lulls you into complacency. Along with the delivery burritos of course.

Anonymous wrote:Friend's daughter picked Brown over MIT because the boys are better looking. The dad didn't find that funny.

I have a female friend from HS that went to MIT and she was basically a queen with her choice of men. A average HS 6 is an MIT 10, so the girl may have miscalculated her relative market advantage!

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Anonymous wrote:Northwestern Tourguide talked incessantly about the ski club and how great they were. Every question was answered with, I don't know, I've heard good things about that, but there's an amazing ski club. None of the parents and none of the kids on the tour gave a sh:t about the ski club. Became a family joke for us, whenever you don't know the answer, say, "I don't know, but there's this amazing ski club." Still cracks us up

That’s weird — is there skiing near northwestern? My kid is there and I’ve never heard anything about this.

Low-grade skiing in WI within a few hours, but no, not really.

Anonymous wrote:My friend’s kid ruled out a school because they kept talking on the tour about how much fun the students have at that school. The rationale was that if they had to say it multiple times, then the kids were definitely NOT having fun.

This is not untrue.

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Anonymous wrote:We went to university of Arizona and there are a million cute little automated robots delivering fast food orders to students in class or dorms or just sitting outside. They wait to cross the road. Like they are checking to see if the coast is clear. We were wondering how many of them get hit by cars and bikes. They made me think of if BB8 worked in the fast food industry.

My daughter refuses to go to any school that has these robots. We've seen them at GMU and JMU. She says she is scared they are going to rise up and cause some type of robot revolution

Well, that should help narrow her options quickly. They're rather prevalent and becoming more so.

My son at an Ivy (relevant due to amped up anxiety) held the door for a mom and a daughter. The mom stopped him to ask questions, spoke for 5 minutes, daughter was horrified. She asked about his gpa, extracurriculars, his high school load, if he was happy. Funny part to me was that she didn’t ask for test scores, I guess that was too far.

Mine ended up at one with a chick fil a right next to campus. Can use his dining dollars. And this year his dorm is a one minute walk from it. Between that and the Wawa, he spends a bit.

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

LOL. For all of the tours we went on Sophomore/Junior year this seemed to be a criteria (but an ON CAMPUS Chic fil a) for my kid.

Thankfully, he chose a school with one on campus where he can use his meal plan. He says he eats it 4-5x/week.....

My son was on a tour at Carleton. To kick things off they brought 5 students to the stage and asked them to identify their spirit animal. My son leaned over and said "I'm done, let's go." I said "no, it just started, we're not leaving now."
A few minutes later they announced they do not offer any scholarships that are not need based. At that point a lady a few rows behind us said out loud "we're done." and walked out. I said, "I guess we can go too." My daughter whispered, "but they said there would be a shaved ice truck at the end." So, we stayed, did the whole tour, got the shaved ice and went home. My son ended up at Grinnell with a nice FA package.

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Anonymous wrote:We went to university of Arizona and there are a million cute little automated robots delivering fast food orders to students in class or dorms or just sitting outside. They wait to cross the road. Like they are checking to see if the coast is clear. We were wondering how many of them get hit by cars and bikes. They made me think of if BB8 worked in the fast food industry.

My daughter refuses to go to any school that has these robots. We've seen them at GMU and JMU. She says she is scared they are going to rise up and cause some type of robot revolution

OK, I can totally see my daughter saying that!

I just wonder how they don’t get robbed of their deliveries half the time.

Anonymous wrote:We went to university of Arizona and there are a million cute little automated robots delivering fast food orders to students in class or dorms or just sitting outside. They wait to cross the road. Like they are checking to see if the coast is clear. We were wondering how many of them get hit by cars and bikes. They made me think of if BB8 worked in the fast food industry.

My daughter refuses to go to any school that has these robots. We've seen them at GMU and JMU. She says she is scared they are going to rise up and cause some type of robot revolution