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<p>Thanks, Consolation. I didn’t realize it was basic HTML. I appreciate you taking the time to help!</p>
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<p>Both my D’s rejected Dickinson after the visit. They felt it was trying too hard to be Swarthmore and in the end they couldn’t tell what it was about. I liked the place myself but was wary of the finaid. Drew lasted about 15 minutes for my first daughter, seemed run down. Second daughter turned down Trinity, scary neighborhood, and Clark, too much like high school, on the same day and Skidmore, too artsy, the next. We stopped at Union on the way back home and she loved the campus and the kids. We never got it together to go back for the interview and she never applied. My first D also visited Wake Forest, unfortunately, the day after she visited Elon - easily the most attractive campus we visited at that time. Wake Forest melted after the info session, looked like something from the fifties.</p>
<p>Lawrence (with daughter). The people were nice, but it is a very regional school and it wasn’t for her.</p>
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<p>D and I flew across the country to visit University of Maryland College Park and we both hated it. Boring looking and in a weird neighborhood. Visited Miami of Ohio and wouldn’t even finish the tour, and that was her dad’s alma mater</p>
<p>What did she or you dislike about Miami?</p>
<p>The dorm we saw at Haverford was incredibly bad. Daughter crossed the school right off her list.</p>
<p>mantori.suzuki - she thought the atmosphere was very preppy/greek, it was too small for her, and she didn’t like the campus. She was much more impressed with Indiana. For what its worth, she chose Boston University, which is about as different from Miami as you can get - she decided an urban campus was what she wanted.</p>
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<p>Funny speedo - my d crossed Elon off her list after visiting Wake Forest! She thought Elon was too ‘new’ and ‘contrived’. She never applied to Wake either, but she liked it. </p>
<p>I know a lot of kids that love Elon though.</p>
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<p>elizabethh, those were my impressions of Miami as well, many years ago when I was deciding for myself. Sounds like it hasn’t changed much. I and both of my brothers applied but later passed on it.</p>
<p>Another vote for the Tufts guy! My daughter and husband loved him; unfortunately the weather was marginally snowy that day, so they ended up leaving the tour as it began to go back uphill. My daughter probably would have applied to Tufts if she hadn’t had to write just that one more essay…
On the other hand, she disliked BC and Brown. Never got straight reasons from her, but my husband thinks she didn’t like the fact that the BC freshmen live so far away. And Brown (and Providence) just didn’t click with her.</p>
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<p>Pomona. Someone stole my wife’s jacket while we were in the dining room. That was bad enough. But then the staff we spoke to in the dining area and in admissions made it worse by letting us know that they couldn’t care less.</p>
<p>And one of the student guides was an idiot.</p>
<p>I thought of one more - American. They seemed to have a great communications program but they were eliminated immediately, crappy lunch. Yet Shippensburg University, a state school in Pa, “Come to Ship” was on the list - best food of any college I or my D ever visited. Only problem was - most of the students looked like they were 300lbs.</p>
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<p>We had a pretty good lunch at American, not as good as Tufts or Caltech, but quite good and many, many choices.</p>
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We aren’t easily offended, but I guess it’s different strokes for different folks. We loved the painted walls. </p>
<p>I was very sad that when they restored the south dorms they got rid of a lot of history.</p>
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[Caltech</a> Wall Art](<a href=“Dave Zobel”>Dave Zobel)</p>
<p>Ours was a box lunch at American. College was quite impressive though, but who cares if the lunch is bad. it’s funny after all the effort, the driving, the arrangements and the expense how something small can alter things. I took my elderly mother on one college visit, she’s sometimes a little off, and right in the middle of a large group presentation by the President, my mother said very loudly, “A lot of Jews here!” We left very soon after that.</p>
<p>I guess boys and girls will get attracted to a college differently. My son likes modern buildings, newer facilities. He likes green areas but thats about it.</p>
<p>McGill was at top until son visited</p>
<p>^^ I don’t know if it has anything to do with gender, but I (a guy) personally despise old/embellished buildings. Simple and clean will win every time. I would actually be happy with something that “looks like an office park”, to quote a previous poster.</p>
<p>don’t go to Trinity College in Ct then. It looks like someone took the building from Oxford and transplanted them into the middle of a horrible slum.</p>