<p>Are you still in love after enrolling and attending for any length of time? My son thinks he's seen the perfect campus, but we were only there briefly. I don't want him making a decison based on this short visit so of course, we'll have to go back for a longer stay. He's seen a dozen campuses so his reaction to this one really surprised me.</p>
<p>TOLEDO - that is pretty much how alot of kids decide on THE ONE - not unusual at all. (Then there are the ones that they refuse to even get out of the car LOL) On our college trip - the school initially at the bottom of the heap (not real interested in initially) jumped right to the top as we just drove into the town - let alone stepped foot on the campus - and during a hurricane to boot LOL - and put all the others down the list.</p>
<p>Some how - some way - something jumps out at them and they just KNOW where they want to be - and it is sometimes very difficult to steer them in a different direction - they go with that gut feeling.</p>
<p>D did - similarly to JeepMom's kid, seen on Accepted Students Day during an April nor'easter. Thought the campus was gorgeous. We figured if she liked it in the wind, snow & slush, she must really like it.</p>
<p>And she continues to be very happy with the school and the campus.</p>
<p>I fell in love with the university I currently attend when I was a sophomore in high school and we were visiting colleges for my brother, who is a year ahead of me in school. When it came time to apply to colleges myself, I couldn't get this one out of my head. Now I've been here for almost 2 full years and if anything I love it even more!</p>
<p>i LOVED bc's campus from the moment i walked on it. really never thought i would get in there so i tried not to admire it too much. second visit it was -5 with the windchill and somehow i decided it was a still a great idea to go. a semester into living here i still look around sometimes and think **** this place is beautiful. expecially after it snows and in the early fall when everything has leaves :)</p>
<p>Most people on theses boards are just looking at cold, hard facts. I just thought it was unusual for someone to have such a strong feeling based on physical appearance. You know you really love it whn you don't mind the bad weather. Thanks for responding.</p>
<p>My son fell for his school on a visit at age 10 -- loved it all the way and stayed through grad school -- so sometimes you just "know".</p>
<p>Both kids knew the minute they stepped on campus that it was "the one." D was ten! (We weren't showing her the campus, but had given ourselves the project of exploring NYC neighborhoods from the 'burbs.) She stepped on campus and announced, "Mine!" And she was right!</p>
<p>UVa...I don't know how anyone could not be in love with that campus</p>
<p>alethiometer - Where do you go?</p>
<p>I loved the Cornell campus, it was the first campus I visited. After that all my other visits left me with the impression" I like Cornell better". I love Cornell even it is frigid cold.lol.</p>
<p>William and Mary's campus is sedcutively gorgeous. It was my first choice for a while but I'm not nearly as hot on it now that I've thought things through. But still, holy ****, talk about being seduced by the beauty of a school.</p>
<p>Deep Springs College</p>
<p>Perfectedxchaos, I go to the University of Richmond in Virginia. It's an amazing school, and so gorgeous!</p>
<p>yes...love at first sight! one d fell in love immediately with UVA! especially their serpentine walls. ha ! i remember saying back then, .."but you can't choose a school because of its walls!" well that wasn't the ONLY reason, and she went and is now graduated! my other fell in love with AU, um, by the second visit. she secretly whispered to me( her sister was present) " i like it better than UVA!" :)</p>
<p>Stanford is by far the most beautiful campus in the world. I fell in love with it the instant i stepped foot on it. Duke is probably second; however, it's still no where near the level of Stanford.</p>
<p>Anyone coming to Madison on a warm early fall day and walking thru the always busy and charming old student union and out to the terrace, overlooking the lake dotted with sailboats, with people sitting on the brightly colored chairs and chatting under the trees will never want anything else.</p>
<p>I loved Cornell's campus (and students) when I first arrived on campus (while two other visits created an immediate negative reaction) ... and I attended Cornell and loved it and my experience aligned very well with my initial impressions from my visit in HS. (I'm a parent so this was awhile ago).</p>
<p>Haha, yeah, it was UBC for me...I first saw it when I was in Middle School.</p>
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<p>I fell in love with Swarthmore's campus the minute I set foot on it on a cold december morning in 2000. After i'd taken a 5-hour train ride from boston to philly and taken the train out to the school. Took the tour, had an interview, tossed a frisbee, got back on the train to go home to boston. I can still remember it vividly.</p>
<p>Luckily for me, I kept an open mind. That trip was also the first time since I was 10 that I had seen the NYC skyline, and as my Amtrak train wound its way through Brooklyn and Queens I found myself staggered and speechless by the scale of human achievement that skyline represents. Columbia's campus may not have been so scenic, but the atmosphere on campus, and the city beyond, called to me in a very different way. I was 100% satisfied applying ED there, couldn't have been happier with my decision, and I'm glad I explored more than my first instincts.</p>
<p>And yeah, DukeBlueDevils, the one school in the country that might've convinced me otherwise was Stanford. God that place is a paradise, visually and culturally.</p>