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Anonymous wrote:Salve Regina. OMG is that campus gorgeous! What a great place for the middle-of-the-road kid whose parents have the means to send them there.

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Most gorgeous campus in country

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Anonymous wrote:Macalester. Campus is compact (important for cold winters!) and in a beautiful area of St. Paul. We loved the proximity to shopping and restaurants and public transportation. Also really close to the airport (we are a flight away).

I agree. And I found the staff in admissions to be very welcoming.

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Anonymous wrote:Macalester. Campus is compact (important for cold winters!) and in a beautiful area of St. Paul. We loved the proximity to shopping and restaurants and public transportation. Also really close to the airport (we are a flight away).

I agree. And I found the staff in admissions to be very welcoming.

Anonymous wrote:Salve Regina. OMG is that campus gorgeous! What a great place for the middle-of-the-road kid whose parents have the means to send them there.

+1

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Anonymous wrote:Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts.

Us, too. Very surprised by it. Did not expect to like it at all and I know others had the opposite experience which is why people really need to visit themselves if they can.

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BU surprised me, in a bad way. Their campus is so spread out! I had no idea it was THAT spread out. It is not really a campus, at all.

Haverford, Swarthmore and Richmond -classic liberal arts feel, gorgeous campus, near a small city with lots of diverse food options.

We toured UCLA and USC on the same day. I expected USC to be kind of meh and we were just crossing it off the list because we were there. Instead, the tour at USC was so good that it’s sort of clouded our view of UCLA later in the day.

Macalester. Campus is compact (important for cold winters!) and in a beautiful area of St. Paul. We loved the proximity to shopping and restaurants and public transportation. Also really close to the airport (we are a flight away).

Anonymous wrote:Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts.

Us, too. Very surprised by it. Did not expect to like it at all and I know others had the opposite experience which is why people really need to visit themselves if they can.

If possible, try to tour any campus with the weather that will likely prevail for the school year. My DD toured Case, CMU and Pitt in February...there will be more cold, gray days at those places (basically, November - Mid-April) vs. warm sunny days.

I am sure those campuses look much different in mid-April.

I tend to do a lot of research and am not surprised but Clemson surprised me in a positive way. I'm used to traveling through South Carolina on 95 in the summer and think of it as hot and humid, whereas Clemson turned out to be in the western part of the state closer to the mountains and prettier than I'd imagined. The students also seemed happy. DS didn't apply as he didn't plan on studying engineering, but was impressed.

Also somewhat surprised by how beautiful parts of the University of Georgia campus are. Expected Athens to be a hopping college town, which it was, but the university also has some gorgeous buildings. Campus is very big, though.

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Anonymous wrote:We have enjoyed many of our school visits, but one school I don't see mentioned often on this board is Rollins College. It is the prettiest campus I've ever been on. My husband kept asking, "Are we on a movie set?!” The campus tour was excellent. It seems like the students have good relationships with their professors. The town of Winter Park is just a few steps off campus and is so quaint. Students were happy--I mean, how could they not be on that campus? My DC ended up somewhere else, but we hope our other children will give it a look.

Given what is going on in Florida right now with NCoF, I don't think I'd send a kid anywhere near the state.

Rollins is private, so it's insulated from anything the state might do with regard to higher education. And NCoF was circling the drain and clearly in need of reform. But you Florida haters can keep on hating. Jesus Christ.

We toured VT and JMU in the same week. I was surprised that DS's impression was that VT felt like a smaller school than JMU. He loved VT and is there now. I think it came down to the layout, at least what we saw on the VT tour, felt compact and well laid out -- the academic side vs the residential side. In contrast, he got the impression that JMU was huge because of how it was spread out over the highway. He still applied to JMU but definitely preferred VT.

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Anonymous wrote:Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts.

I've always been interested in this school. What did you like about it?

If you liked clark's campus and vibe, you might also like WPI and Assumption (for different reasons academically), both beautiful schools.

DD toured colleges two years ago after getting in. She knew Indiana (Bloomington) was good on paper for what she wanted, but having never visited she had some bad preconceived notions of what central Indiana (and Indianans) would be like, and thought she’d go to Boulder. We drove past the surrounding Indiana hills and cute town of Bloomington to get to the campus, and on the tour she was struck by the beauty of the limestone campus (and plantings) and by the friendliness (and casualness - no fancy fashions, unlike Boulder) of everyone we passed on our tour. Tour ended and she smiled and said, ‘ok, we can buy the sweatshirt’ (we bought three…)