<p>How can you Wesleyan kids "aren't real friendly" after a simple visit? Did you meet anything like 10% of the population?</p>
<p>anyone have any other opinions about geneseo and skidmore? anything specific about the large amount of stairs at hartwick?</p>
<p>There are a lot of stairs at Hartwick because it's built into the side of a huge hill. That's why the school has such an incredible view. You can be sure you'll have a firm butt and strong legs after 4 years...lol! From what I've heard...some of the staircases are heated to melt the snow. </p>
<p>Skidmore: good school, but I guess a bit snobby?</p>
<p>here's the list of places my son and i visited this summer.</p>
<p>university of chicago, northwestern, washington and lee, dartmouth</p>
<p>this weekend we saw 2 colleges:</p>
<p>Manhattan College (Riverdale NY): my d was impressed. She was filling the application out in the car ride home!
This is a small private catholic school trying to vie for attention along w/ nearby Fordham University( which she is also appying to)</p>
<p>Very federal style coligiate looking campus w/ beautiful arches and landscapind among hills and stones typical of the bronx ny landscape.</p>
<p>Looks like they are generous w/ merit aid. I don't want to say much of my own opinion here, I will just say that my d loved it and that is what counts.</p>
<p>St. Johns University ( Queens NY)</p>
<p>another catholic school larger than Manhattan College. A commuter school. Neat efficient looking campus that did not seem special. Great tehnology and wireless set ups. Huge for business and law. We were not impressed.</p>
<p>Geneseo - rather typical of other SUNY campuses meaning buildings not well-maintained, largely 60s/70s functional Block designed buildings, not much landscaping. Feels like a suitcase school. One building is older and classic looking but it's smaller than their literature would lead you to believe. The town was the biggest disappointment. There's a Main St right next to campus but what it offers is surprisingly weak, not as interesting as I was expecting. Otherwise this is an isolated small town in the snow belt and it's not on a scenic lake like Ithaca or Geneva. Rochester, not very exciting in its own right, is 30 miles away but it seems further.</p>
<p>Skidmore - Modern architecture (not colonial like you might expect at northeastern LACs) in the woods. Mostly brick buildings (similar to Brandeis in look and campus layout, but overall nicer) with glass; some large towers for dorms. There are a lot of trees - more like in the woods than landscaping. Feels small; some people are looking for that, others might outgrow it after a year or 2. The people working the grounds and security were very friendly and genuine, as I find typical of the greater Albany area. From campus, it's about a mile to walk into Saratoga Springs - an amazing upscale small-town downtown. I mean up up up scale. ;)</p>
<p>Rutgers NB- I found this place to be a dump, and very poorly laid out. From one end of the campus to the other is a 20 minute bus ride, about 8 miles apart. </p>
<p>Richard Stockton- I planned on this school being my safety, but i was pleasently surprised. This school is much better than Rutgers, or Temple, or Rowan. This school is the reason I am NOT applying to Rutgers (Im an NJ resident</p>
<p>James Madison- Beautiful campus. </p>
<p>Delaware- laid out very nice, blends into town very well.</p>
<p>Yale - awesome</p>
<p>Duke-Split campuses, its sorta annoying to take the bus from east campus to west campus. Most freshman are on east campus in rather cheap dorms (I stayed there for summer camp). Campus is beautiful, reaserach oppurtunities are great. The student union is very nice. You should definitely go to Cameron Indoor Stasium, it is the best college basketball arena hands down. People are very nice if you stop and talk to them, but mostly they will ignore you if you don't say anything.</p>
<p>University of Florida-The campus is huge, its like 10 square miles across. The classes are taught by a lot of extremely smart professors, at least in teh upper levels. THe grad students teaching aren't too bad. If you're looking for vareity at a decent school, this is a pretty good option. So many people that many students don't care about you, but you can stop some and they are friendly, its the southerness I think.</p>
<p>UNC-chapel hill: great school period. I believe it's one of the best public universities. The campus is nice, it's part of a great area with Duke and NC state in a tech heavy area (IBM has a big center in the vicinity). On halloween, there is a huge party in the city's main thoroughfare (Franklin Street). The Duke-UNC rivalry is huge and just like teh above universities, teh people are very friendly.</p>
<p>My school did a college tour in my sophomore year, so that plus family trips has led to over twenty college visits... I don't know if I remember all of them...</p>
<p>Duke
UNC-Chapel Hill
University of Richmond
Amherst
Williams (drive through tour)
Brown
Yale
Harvard
Stanford
UC Berkeley
UCLA
Princeton
Colby
USC
Bowdoin (quick look on campus)
Vassar
Lehigh
Villanova
BU
Clark
Columbia
Georgetown
Tufts</p>
<p>That's 23... I don't know if I've missed any others...</p>
<p>Boston: BC and Emmanuel College</p>
<p>Both Jesuit schools, both on very opposite ends of the spectrum.</p>
<p>BC...........what is there to say.......it exceeded my expectations in aesthetic spiritual beauty. Academically tight programs a bit pretentious and ornate in that all archetecture for most part looked like a cathedral and a bit uptight but beautiful.</p>
<p>Socially seems to be a bit snobby but aproachable too, if that makes sense. </p>
<p>Strong Catholic sense and well connected alumni.</p>
<p>Emmanuel............struggling but a school that seems to offer good programs for kids who seem to know what they want. We liked the six school consortium and the back bay fens park across the street. With the six schools combined it felt like a large campus and quite beautiful( simmons all girls school next door)</p>
<p>Loved the city of Boston! Took amtrak from NY and public transportation all around( Thanks for directions about the t lines everyone!) It was easy and I
really wish we would have had time to see more.</p>
<p>Newport........Salve Regina.........very impressed. If you love history and mansions and quaint towns this is the place for you! </p>
<p>Connecticut College........this was # 1 choice for this trip! Very impressed and it was pouring rain too!</p>
<p>Quinnipiac College CT .............nice. My D's boyfriend's college..........I think she is a bit partial.</p>
<p>Only 2 more to see...........SUNY Albany and Sacred Heart Academy......then we have seen them all.</p>
<p>Applications are heading out!</p>
<p>Good luck to all you students and families this fall in your quest!</p>
<p>In the end, I visited</p>
<p>UCB
UCSB
UCI
UCSC
UCR
Scripps
Pitzer
LMU
Whittier
Pepperdine(No Tour)
USD
SDSU (No Tour)
Occidental
Mount Holyoke
Hampshire
Smith (No Tour)
Amherst (No Tour)
UMD College Park
George Washington
American University
Wellesley
Clark
Wheaton MA
Mills
Santa Clara</p>
<p>Where do people find the time to visit 20+ colleges, and then go back for repeat visits to some? How many weekends does that take up? How many days of school do you miss? Seriously, we had trouble making it to more than a handful.</p>
<p>I've hung out at Wesleyan for a weekend. I agree with the previous comment, I found the the kids were pretentious and not friendly, strangely the opposite of Vassar where the people were awesome.</p>
<p>I've found the same to be true of Brown, Amherst, and Columbia. It could be as simple as individual peep, in the middle of writing an overdue paper, failing to warm up to strangers asking the same questions over and over again. A visit to the Wesleyan livejournal site will reveal that hosting "prospies" is actually a pretty popular pasttime.</p>
<p>I am not so sure, I visited with a friend and we both hung out with his friend from high school, so it was not as a prospective - rather just for fun. The kid complained about the "hipster elitism" at Wesleyan. At Brown (where I have been five or six times) I never experienced this, in fact Brown students are some of the nicest I have ever met. I did go to Columbia for a year and the snobby elitism exists there. Columbia has a much larger quiet nerd population than other schools I have been to though. I've never been to Amherst.</p>
<p>We're just starting, so we've only visited a few, all in Virginia.</p>
<p>William & Mary - gorgeous campus! Freezing cold when we were there, but still lovely!</p>
<p>UVA - gorgeous campus. Had a fantastic tour guide who talked a mile a minute!</p>
<p>James Madison - another favorite! The students there were SO friendly -- not just the ones giving the tour! Everyone seemed happy to be there! (My daughter's current #1 favorite)</p>
<p>Mary Washington - one of the nicest campuses I've ever seen! Friendly folks abound. Only 30 minutes from our house though, so too close to home for my daughter! LOL!</p>
<p>That's all for now. Hope to see Virginia Tech this Fall!</p>
<p>Kelly</p>
<p>Now, I'm confused. Were any kids actually unfriendly to you, or was this just someone else's midnight rant? :/</p>
<p>On 2/13/06 slipper wrote:</p>
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<p>I am not so sure, I visited with a friend and we both hung out with his friend from high school, so it was not as a prospective - rather just for fun. The kid complained about the "hipster elitism" at Wesleyan. At Brown (where I have been five or six times) I never experienced this, in fact Brown students are some of the nicest I have ever met. I did go to Columbia for a year and the snobby elitism exists there. Columbia has a much larger quiet nerd population than other schools I have been to though. I've never been to Amherst.<</p>
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<p>No I went to some parties plus hung out with a bunch of kids. I felt like kids were just pretentious and unfriendly, especially compared to all the other places I have been. Seemed cliquey between athletes/ jocks and hipsters, and the people I talked to affirmed this sense. Maybe thats slightly exaggerated, but not very much.</p>
<p>Fair enough. I can't think of a single party I've ever attended where I DIDN'T think a sizable number of the people present were being cliquish and pretentious. That's sort of the nature of parties. </p>
<p>Moreover, your assessment of Wesleyan's "friendliness" seems to belie the number of peep you seem to have 1) "hung out with", 2) partied with, and, 3) "talked to". What's the matter with this picture? :) </p>
<p>On 2/13/06 Slipper wrote:</p>
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<p>No I went to some parties plus hung out with a bunch of kids. I felt like kids were just pretentious and unfriendly, especially compared to all the other places I have been. Seemed cliquey between athletes/ jocks and hipsters, and the people I talked to affirmed this sense. Maybe thats slightly exaggerated, but not very much.<</p>
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