<p>Ohio state? or Ohio U? I get them confused. Ohio State is a huge huge huge party school from what I know.</p>
<p>I'm going to apply as a transfer to IU. But the out of state costs are heavy.</p>
<p>Ohio university.... it is a much bigger party school than ohio state.. out of state costs are heavy everywhere except in the south</p>
<p>Has anyone visited Lehigh? Haven't abeen able to visit, but need a safety engineering within a university with liberal arts.</p>
<p>does anyone on this board visit state schools or non-ivy league schools??</p>
<p>i posted about ohio univ-athens, purdue univ. and IU-bloomington</p>
<p>We have visited (and reported on) Lafayette, American, George Washington, UToronto, Rutgers so far, and nary an Ivy among them -</p>
<p>LOL, these are more of my type of posts... which university has more slutty girls as well as better parties!</p>
<p>Ohio U, #2 party school in US, and #45 for academics, not sure what list i read that on, but i read it at the dentist office four days ago. i live like 3 hours from there, and yeah, "octoberfest" down there is know all over, even in california ive asked a few people for the hell of it if theyve heard of the party at athens for that and they have, and they say its as big as marti gras, so if you go there, have fun lol.</p>
<p>This is a parent -not student review:</p>
<p>Brown--blythe89, Brown has old buildings --many with Ivy as well as some ugly modern ones and some attractive modern. Dominant style is "Georgian" so lots of bricks. The surrounding area of Providence = College Hill is famous for its many beautiful colonial houses-both wood and brick--most streets are pleasantly tree-lined.</p>
<p>Brandeis-- many have said it's "ugly" . I think it suffers more by comparison to the many charming old New England institutions. We have visited in Spring and in Summer-- campus was built up in 1948--many buildings are individually quite attractive but there's not much unity or harmony among them to form an an atrractive campus. There are hills, one lookout point with an attractive view of the Boston skyline on the horizon. We didn't notice it was "dirty" on either visit but I grew up in New York City, so maybe that doesn't strike me so much. Freshmen dorms were the least appealing structures- plain and boxy. Plenty of trees, which give the campus a pleasant feel when they have leaves but feels a bit drab when they don't. Overall, few students would choose Brandeis on aesthetics but it has a great deal to offer by other criteria.</p>
<p>Skidmore-- all modern but attractive buildings, large spread out campus with plenty of trees, attractive views and meticulous landscaping. Attention to detail and comfort in the architecture-many window nooks to sit in in the library with comfortable seating.</p>
<p>ohio university is the most amazing school..... amazing parties... good academics... supportive and reachable professors... true college town.... screw ivies what can b better than that</p>
<p>Ohio University?</p>
<p>yes ohio university</p>
<p>nine pages in:</p>
<p>Bates: I liked the cohesive feeling of the campus, all of the brick buildings gave it a nice feel. Lots of gorgeous big trees. Interesting setting in a kind of aging-industrial town in central ME. The students definitely didn't give off the preppy vibe, but more of a slight-alternative feel.</p>
<p>Bowdoin: Beautiful trees all over the place. Nice old buildings, mixture of brick and Gothic and other styles. Brunswick is kind of quaint, with a town green and some shops/cafes. People definitely are preppy - it didn't help that the entire summer lacrosse team in full prep gear walked by the admissions office while I was there. Dingy, old dorms that remind me of my tiled-hallway middle school. Ugh.</p>
<p>Brown: Pretty campus with lots of brick buildings built around quads with a few trees. I felt it was too cluttered, without enough open space. I guess I'm not a city person.</p>
<p>Cornell: Absolutely the most beautiful campus I've visited. Granted, I didn't go when the snow was all over the place, but I loved it! From the library window, you look out to this gorgeous lake and to blue hills beyond. The campus IS large, but exercise is good for you! Plus, you walk by gorgeous buildings (and gorges! OH SNAP!) I got a very inspiring feeling from the school.</p>
<p>Haverford: lots of gray stone, very pretty, somehow able to make the campus feel very secluded and beautiful, yet they're situated in the philadelphia suburbs. Lots of jocks. There's a pond with ducks. I liked that. OOh, funny tour story: tour guide was walking by this group of guys playing baseball. One cried out, "Hillary! It's okay! I talked to the doctor, it's not contagious!"</p>
<p>More to come.</p>
<p>OHio University seems to have a great reputation and the students there seem really happy. I was reading the comments about student satisfaction on <a href="http://www.studentsreview.com%5B/url%5D">www.studentsreview.com</a> and they are overwhelmingly strong for the institution. That's great.</p>
<p>does anyone know anything about Rochester University?</p>
<p>I've got some experience with both U of Ohio & U of Roch. Former student at U of Ohio loves it...good social life, is in engineering and doing very well. Had a girl (who had a higher class rank) in his same class go to Leigh in engineering and has had a much more difficult time. So my conclusion is that it is a good academic school but with the average SAT of 1100 and professors generally teaching to the average student, the classes are not going to be unreasonably difficult. My nephew is in the PHD program in engineering at U of Roch. Started out in premed, but soon changed to biomedical engineering. Does alot with DNA research. The school is I think 4th in the country in getting private business colaborative grants for research. The financial aid, etc. has been good to him. He isn't a real party type kid and playing football there was really the majority of his social life , I know they have fraternities.</p>
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<p>In my LI district alot of high caliber kids apply to U of Rochester thinking that it will be a likely admit. (lets forget about safety as we now know anything can happen in college admissions). These are the kids that apply to Cornell, U Penn, Amherst etc. and are top 10 % and 1400 + on SAT (old format). Some wind up at U of R. but most do go to a school that was higher on their "wish list". But the caliber of students applying is very high. We visited the campus- it is extremely nice, student enrollment about 5,000 (not too big -not too small). and if this school were not in upstate NY (with pretty crummy winters) I think it would be a much more desireable choice for most kids. Check it out--it is a wonderful school.</p>
<p>csdad:<br>
Do you know anything else about the girl at Lehigh in engineering? By a "hard time" do you mean it was academically harder? Did/does she like it there?
Thanks!</p>
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<p>Academically hard...she had to get intensive tutoring in Calculus after her professor deemed her skills to not be adaquate in the first semester calc course required of all engineering majors. Now the student at Ohio U had the same HS courses (and about the same grades in them) as she did but exceled in college. Again the difference as I see it is the 2 students had around the same SAT scores but are at schools with a 200 point average difference...professors teach to the average.. if the school is a "reach" and you get in you're probably going to have alot harder time than at a "safety" school?</p>
<p>Thanks csdad, the infomation is helpful.</p>