Anonymous wrote:Duke: I know others love it, but the gothic vibe doesn’t jive with me.

Columbia and NYU: No campus feel.

Georgetown (law school only and in the 90’s): Yuck.

UC Hastings (now called something else): Also yuck.

From a distance, Duke’s gothic buildings don’t look much different from those at BC or Northwestern. But up close, Duke’s buildings’ individual stones are offset from each other in a way that they produce a very uneven and jarring effect. I would imagine the people who work or study there eventually get accustomed to it.

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Anonymous wrote:It's as bit more than a view.

It’s just a view. Not like you’re on a fancy island. Lord, NU alum can’t handle that not everyone wants their precious school.

Weird escalation.

The posters who excessively attack a certain school are far more deranged than those who excessively boost a certain school.

Anonymous wrote:This thread proves that so much is about individual taste...and, unfortunately, the weather on the day of the tour.

Luckily my kid didn't seem to give a hoot about the look of a campus. In fact he liked schools that had no discernable campus like BU. So while I shared some of the opinions on this thread, I kept them to myself!

With so many beautiful campuses in the country, I always wondered who would pick BU. Now I know. Thanks!

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Anonymous wrote:It's as bit more than a view.

It’s just a view. Not like you’re on a fancy island. Lord, NU alum can’t handle that not everyone wants their precious school.

Weird escalation.

I’d have to say Notre Dame. We made a detour on a longer trip to visit Touchdown Jesus but looked at other parts of the campus. Kid’s comment was “are all the buildings this same ugly color?”

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Anonymous wrote:Yale is like a weird Potemkin Village or movie set.

Yes it is. They designed some of the lead glass windows in the hope of replicating the Oxford / Cambridge look.

If they really wanted to replicate the Oxbridge look they would have used much more limestone. They did not.

Stanford. We should’ve done research before, because it was so sprawly and felt like our tour was never going to end. It’s more Disneyland than a college.

Anonymous wrote:It's as bit more than a view.

It’s just a view. Not like you’re on a fancy island. Lord, NU alum can’t handle that not everyone wants their precious school.

It's as bit more than a view.

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Anonymous wrote:Northwestern. Felt like I was in an office park.

Same! Hated it

U people are insane-the campus overlooks Lake Michigan and is beautiful all times of the year. Most of the architecture is Gothic looking and dorms are nice. Much better than the hood of U Chicago where there is abundant crime on the regular!

You can get views of Lake Michigan almost anywhere in Chicago. Kinda why we settled there.

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Anonymous wrote:Northwestern. Felt like I was in an office park.

Thank you U Chicago admissions !

For what it’s worth, I dislike uchicago’s campus too.

Did not care for Villanova for a lot of reasons. First there was a labyrinth just getting to the tour location and they seemed mildly annoyed that we had to ask which way to go. Bugged me. Tour guide was meh. I'm sure we had an off day. Had just toured Penn and it was so dynamic that it probably paled in comparison. Kid ended up not applying to either, fwiw.

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Anonymous wrote:UVA

It's a world unesco site. And Poe's room is on display. And Montecello. And the vineyards around C'vile. And the beauty of the countryside. If you can't appreciate any of that then the problem is you so I can tell your kid didn't get in. Take your sour grapes elseshere.

Not PP but for us UVA was lovely and the kids/tour guide were great, and our hotel (at the business school) was divine. But the remote location was not a good fit for our kid, having just toured Georgetown. To each his own.

Anonymous wrote:UVA and Wake Forest. More about the vibe on each tour than the surroundings. They felt robotic and uninspiring. Also hate when schools compare themselves to other schools during the information sessions/tours. Just stand on your own merits.

Different strokes for different folks. Both these campuses are beautiful. But fit is important so sounds like not a match for your child. And maybe skip the schools with Georgian architecture.

Shenandoah. During the tour I saw a Lantern Fly on a tree, turned me off.