crossposting from 2019 thread, and yes, @Portercat , your info jibes with what my D told me:
OK, more info from the daughter on her visit to West Chester U.
Two campuses - north and south, and even an “east” which I think is more commuter. South is most of the sports stuff. Shuttle buses. D liked the look of the place a lot. Adjoining town very quaint, lots of places to get a basic retail job, she said.
An older student union at the south campus and a newly renovated one at the north campus, which shows first-run movies about six months after they come out.
Food: Chick Fil A and Starbucks. Buffet style cafe. Other options. We didn’t dwell much on this as D will eat anything.
She talked to the lax coach despite being so terrified she was close to tears. (Powerful goddess-women do that to her). Coach told her to get film and invited her to come to a tourney/camp - pretty standard stuff. It’s a pretty successful program; not sure there’s a place for D there.
There’s a whole department called exploratory studies, which appealed to her, as it’s designed to get her eventually into a major but in the meantime lets her dabble. No Chinese but head of languages was very nice to her and they talked about a study-abroad thing to China that could be great.
They talked to the theater people, and got a weird vibe. My H described them as not…theater-y… Very nice, but more mainstream and I guess not all flailing arms and drama queens and extroverted? That’s the only thing I can glean from it. Anyway, they’re doing Romeo and Juliet and D wants to go back down for that later in the fall. Didn’t see the facilities, as all the theater people were at the area where all the departments and clubs etc were clustered, so she didn’t think she’d be able to see anything (obv., if I had been there, trespassing would’ve been de rigeur…I’m much less bothered by rules…)
She saw both kinds of dorms: older traditional and newer, “affiliated,” which I understand are about $4k more a year. The older dorms have a/c units in the rooms and communal bathrooms for each floor. The affiliated ones are more like what my H described as a Marriott hotel room: you enter into a foyer with closets on either side, then it’s a big suite-style room, with I think a shared bathroom between two suites. Some “pods” for upperclassmen can have as many as four or five single bedrooms clustered around a LR/kitchen, my H said he was told. Both types of buildings have stairs and elevators; the affiliate dorms have ritzy bottom-level gyms and lounges while the traditional dorms have less ritzy stuff.
WCU’s is more expensive for less.