Absolutely Unique Features About Colleges?

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<p>Colgate University- IMAX like theater in our spankin’ new science center. AND the LASR system, a robotic book retrieval machine where people can request books that aren’t on the shelves (especially useful when the library was under construction and there were no bookshelves to speak of) and can pick them up right at the circulation desk within 15 minutes.</p>

<p>And the academics are on top of the hill that students have to walk up nearly 300 steps to get there (or for the lazy ones, they take rides up from friends).</p>

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<p>UR has FREE FIFTH Year?!!?! Why didn’t someone point that out to me 5 years ago!? :frowning: I would’ve liked to get my MA for free as opposed to paying for grad school now. :)</p>

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<p>UCLA - the university that gets the most applicants in the country</p>

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<p>Princeton’s [Nassau</a> Hall](<a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nassau_Hall"]Nassau”>Nassau Hall - Wikipedia) was the capital of the nation for a few months and has the battle scars to prove it.</p>

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<p>Michigan is the only university with an alumni association chapter on the Moon.</p>

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<p>High Point College in north Carolina seems to be branding itself as sort of a Club Med type place for college students. Hot tubs, free ice cream and snacks, concierge service, valet parking, live bands in dining halls, birthday cards, etc. Wonder if the students get their term papers written for them as well? I know a girl who’s going here and it is very compatible with her lifestyle but unfortunately i think a college experience like this may not be the best option for most students as it is not “traditional.” But freshman enrollment has tripled, they say. Oh well, business is business.
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<p>How has this thread made it through 150 odd posts without someone mentionening Bob Jones University? Non accredited (of course; who should meddle with the religious fundamentalists and force them to conform?), ridiculous codes of conduct, creationism, stuff like strict dress codes, no movies over G, basically no music with words unless old church hymns, no interracial dating until 2002. Wicked, really. I guess even the fundamentalist Christians need somewhere to go to college.
[Dress</a> Codes ~ BJU](<a href=“http://www.bju.edu/prospective/expect/dress.html]Dress”>http://www.bju.edu/prospective/expect/dress.html)
[Student</a> Expectations ~ BJU](<a href=“http://www.bju.edu/prospective/expect/general.html]Student”>http://www.bju.edu/prospective/expect/general.html)
[Residence</a> Hall Life ~ BJU](<a href=“http://www.bju.edu/prospective/expect/rhall.html]Residence”>http://www.bju.edu/prospective/expect/rhall.html)</p>

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<p>College of Wooster</p>

<p>Independent Study (IS) project required both semesters senior year.</p>

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<p>In addition to the aforementioned art rental program, Oberlin was the first institution of higher education in America to adopt a policy to admit students of color (1835, two years after their founding) and the first college to award bachelor’s degrees to women (1841) in a coeducational program. They also have monthly “organ pumps” - organ concerts held at midnight that attract hundreds of audience members from the conservatory, college and surrounding community.</p>

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<p>[In response to the post about Washington University and the ice cream cone invented there at the Olympics]</p>

<p>Mmm actually not during the Olympic games, but the World’s Fair. but both did take place in St. Louis in Forest Park in 1904. yeahh stl :slight_smile: though I’m getting out of here for college</p>

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<p>How can Harvard’s dining be over-priced if
A) everyone’s on the same, unlimited meal plan, and
B) most people get such great financial aid that they are paying less than what their friends are paying for in-state tuition</p>

<p>Also, the Crimson is the only college newpaper to be part of the Associated Press, and it’s run entirely by undergrads. Unique? Hell yes.</p>

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<p>Tallest academic building, the so-called “Cathedral of Learning” in the US is at the University of Pittsburgh (2nd tallest worldwide–only beat out by Moscow State University in Moscow, Russia).</p>

<p>Most restrictive university in terms of student “freedom”–Pensacola Community College in Pensacola, Florida (for example, making eye contact with someone else for too long is considered grounds for expulsion)</p>

<p>[Dark</a> Christianity - Christian college forbids eye contact](<a href=“http://community.livejournal.com/dark_christian/477626.html]Dark”>Error)</p>

<p>The university with the largest enrollment in the US (as of Fall 2007) was estimated to be Ohio State University.</p>

<p>[List</a> of largest United States universities by enrollment - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia](<a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_United_States_universities_by_enrollment]List”>List of the largest United States colleges and universities by enrollment - Wikipedia)</p>

<p>School whose students have won the most Olympic medals: University of California at Berkeley</p>

<p>School whose students have won the most NCAA titles: University of California at Los Angeles</p>

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<p>University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign</p>

<p>Home to National Center for Supercomputing Applications</p>

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<p>I’ll give you a few more about Middlebury:</p>

<p>Several colleges, including Middlebury, claim that the frisbee was invented there. There’s a statue of a dog catching a frisbee in the middle of Middlebury’s campus commemorating this event</p>

<p>The first African-American to earn a degree from an American college graduated from Middlebury in 1823.</p>

<p>Middlebury was the first college or university in the United States to offer a major in environmental studies (in 1965).</p>

<p>Middlebury has a student-run restaurant on campus where students can eat sit down meals, complete with white table clothes, menus, and meals delivered to your table be waiters, that is included in the meal plan. The sous-chefs are Middlebury students interested in learning culinary arts from accomplished chefs.</p>

<p>The science center at Middlebury has the largest window in Vermont.</p>

<p>Painter Hall (completed in 1816) is the oldest existing college building in Vermont.</p>

<p>Middlebury is one of only two schools in the nation (the other being Dartmouth) that owns and operates its own ski mountain.</p>

<p>Middlebury owns the old farm and log cabin where Robert Frost spent his last 20 summers writing and teaching.</p>

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<p>Pillsbury Baptist Bible College.</p>

<p>You don’t take the ACT/SAT until AFTER you get there.</p>

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<p>“The university with the largest enrollment in the US (as of Fall 2007) was estimated to be Ohio State University.”</p>

<p>This number was only estimated because they couldn’t find anybody a Ohio State that could count that high.</p>

<p><em>rimshot</em></p>

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<p>“As far as I know, Oberlin’s art rental program is unique.”</p>

<p>Harvard has the same thing. </p>

<p>[The</a> Harvard Crimson :: Magazine :: No. 10: The Fogg?s Student Rental Program: $25 Puts Warhol On Your Wall](<a href=“http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=509901]The”>http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=509901)</p>

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<p>^ Harvard’s Fogg is like out of comission for the next 5 years. :frowning: Closed for renovation. :slight_smile: I checked and I wanted to visit again. It sucks.</p>

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<p>Laxtaxi’s post about the W.E.B. DuBois library at UMass is an urban legend according to Snopes, although the building did have some structural issues that were corrected, as did the library at UConn.</p>

<p>Speaking of UConn, it’s “one of only two (soon to be three) universities in the country offering a BFA degree in puppet arts and the only institution in the country offering masters degrees (both MA and MFA) in the field.”</p>

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<p>College of the Atlantic:</p>

<p>Owns an island called Mount Desert Rock (not to be confused with Mount Desert Island, which is where the campus and Bar Harbor are located), and owns a large portion of Great Duck Island, so students can actually go to isolated field areas and study wildlife (which is mostly seabirds and whales). </p>

<p>There are no sports and no sport facilities. Most students employ a DIY attitude and so pick-up soccer and ultimate frisbee are popular.</p>

<p>300-320 students total. So, one of the smallest colleges in America. </p>

<p>Only one major, Human Ecology. Students draw on different focus areas to make up their definition of Human Ecology, so everyone leaves with a unique path. </p>

<p>No wednesday classes (some labs though) so that students can attend All College Meeting, where everyone has an equal vote and decide on everything about the college. This could include new faculty, to new facilities.</p>

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<p>has quite a few:</p>

<p>– only US college I know of with numerous classes taught tutorial style (students pair up, two to a professor, and take turns analyzing weekly papers / problem sets)</p>

<p>– the 4-1-4 calendar (a few others have similar calendars, but I don’t know of any others that have the 4-1-4 with the winter study period where everyone takes a really interesting, non-traditional class pass/fail for the month of January)</p>

<p>– mountain day (classes cancelled one gorgeous fall day so everyone can hike)</p>

<p>– first U.S. college where graduates wore caps and gowns</p>

<p>– oldest society of alumni in the U.S.</p>

<p>– participant in first intercollegiate baseball game (vs. Amherst, of course) </p>

<p>– only U.S. college to own, in college library, original copies of the four founding documents of the U.S. (Constitution etc.). </p>

<p>– and already mentioned, the entry system</p>

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<p>Ephman, Oberlin also has a 4-1-4 calendar with Winter Term in the middle.</p>