<p>You’ll want to stay away from the northwest then, cause seeing someone in a tshirt & loose pants will likely give you the vapors! 
My mom set her hair with curlers, but the most I ever did is put my hair in tiny braids.
The coed bathrooms are also very clean.
In fact I used the shower in the dorm cause it was much nicer than the hostel where I was staying.</p>
<p>Don’t consider any of the above mentioned colleges worth considering, most I’ve only heard of on CC Off the radar. But- am used to better public flagships than those, especially away from the northeast. I feel sorry for the people who have to do so many college applications instead of just choosing their top flagship.</p>
<p>As far as what I said about wearing sweats to class, I grew up wearing a uniform, so to me, sweats was big :). But it still had more of an air to me of just general comfort and chilledness- at another college I visited, the girls were dressed to the nines with enough makeup to choke a horse. It wasn’t even fancy, it was just very… conscious. I don’t know how to put it, exactly. It just seemed more calculated, as opposed to a more relaxed attitude at the all-girls school.
Then again, the plural of anecdote is not data, so…</p>
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<p>i went to Michigan, and can think of dozens of small colleges known better to CCers than to the general public that I wish I had attended instead. Not a particular knock on Michigan, but the state flagship (even a good one) isn’t the be-all and end-all for every student. Don’t be a research university snob – they are a far better educational experience for grad students than undergrads in almost all cases.</p>
<p>I lived in a co-ed dorm on a co-ed floor with shared bathroom and I graduated 35 years ago. It’s not a big deal unless the sight (as a boy) of girls brushing their teeth bothers you. They also wear nightgowns and t-shirts and occasionally shower.</p>
<p>They may occasionally shower, but do they change their sheets?</p>
<p>wis75, states have stopped funding the “better public research universities;” the great public universities of the past are being gutted. </p>
<p>For this quick, OT post, I’m going to use numbers from the National Education Association, but the numbers are easy to find else where. In the last 5 years, the majority of states have reduced their funding of public education. Here are some of the more dramatic drops: PA -20.5% (go Penn State), MI -18.4% (good thing Ann Arbor has a big endowment), NH -21.3%, C0 -18.5%, AZ -33.3%, NV -21.8%, WA -13.2%, OR -15%, LA 34.4%, MA -12.1%. Even that great giver of Merit money AL is down by 8.9%.</p>
<p>Private LACs and schools with endowments look better and better. </p>