So maybe that’s a good topic to dwell on for a page or two. Which schools have you visited and what did you think of the aesthetics? Surrounding town (if there is one), dorms, food, rec center or student union, student vibe - whatever you can contribute to give us a picture in our mind to go along with the spiffy brochures.
I can talk with a teensy bit of knowledge about ESU. My D stayed overnight in a dorm - Lenape - for a summer lax camp a couple of years ago. Her dorm room was a single room, with a roommate who had a separate single room, and they had a living room/tiny kitchen area. I think they had their own bathroom, but I can’t remember that part exactly. I was really impressed - it was very spacious and pretty new.
ESU’s library, though I’ve never been in it, is a lovely building from the outside. It has a decent football field and other sporting fields. The fieldhouse (for basketball) looks old from the outside. Not sure how it is inside.
The campus is self-contained in a big rectangle, though there are roads that go through it (and that I use as a shortcut every day to get to one of my kids’ secondary schools). Lots of speed bumps and ped xing, so seems safe. It’s right next to the local hospital.
The problem is that ESU isn’t near anything that interesting really within walking distance. East Stroudsburg has a lame downtown area a few blocks away, if you can even call it that. Diner, restaurant, gallery, pizza/Chinese food, drugstore and that’s about it. Frazetta’s is there, which is great at Halloween (costume/prop shop run by the family of the famed illustrator). But hardly a place to go to every week.
Stroudsburg, the adjoining borough, has a lovely Main Street and the bar/restaurant scene is thriving, but it’d be a long walk (1 mile-plus or so) - so that means driving, which means the possibility of drunk driving. I worry about driving in the area on weekend nights, specifically because of college kids.
Other than that, it’s the Poconos, so lots of cool outdoor things to do, Delaware River, a great jazz club (the Deer Head Inn), tons of water parks, etc. Very tourism-focused.
HTH
