<p>Enough with the Catholic debate already! Please make your own thread for that. This thread was fun until you guys starting splitting hairs over religion.</p>
<p>hear hear DougBetsy! S crossed Wesleyan off the list, I really canât remeber why.</p>
<p>Thank you DB!! This thread was really hijacked.</p>
<p>My kid:
Hated Brown (pretentious tour guide, too much construction, Providence seemed scary)
Rejected Washington and Lee (too Southern, though he likes the South)
Rejected TCNJâmind closed before he went there.
Thought Haverford was too small, though his school is almost as small. Boring town.
Hated UVA (because he loved William and Mary). Also, didnât like the idea of large classes.
University of North Carolina âUgh, noâ, though he wouldnât even look at it as we drove around campus.
NYUâno, in the city, no campus. </p>
<p>Loved William and Mary, U of Richmond (campus), Swarthmore.</p>
<p>âThis thread was fun until you guys starting splitting hairs over religion.â</p>
<p>DB, the Catholic debate was my fault. Sorry we prevented you from getting your daily allowance of insightul gems like this:</p>
<p>âS crossed Wesleyan off the list, I really canât remeber why.â</p>
<p>Schmaltz, DB was just trying to keep this thread about what it origianlly intened to be. She reasonably suggested you all start a religious thread. I just offered a boring comment to get things back on track. Snarkiness is just so holier than thou.</p>
<p>âSnarkiness is just so holier than thou.â </p>
<p>I will remeber that.</p>
<p>As another guilty party, I do think the Catholic school debate is an interesting addition to this thread.</p>
<p>It is relevant in the sense of âshould anyone cross a college off the list simply because it is Catholic?â</p>
<p>Some feel that a schoolâs historical association with the Catholic church isnât relevant, others that it does color student experience⊠which did spin off into a debate.</p>
<p>Good God, Fendrock, donât make them even more cross than they are. They want nun of that religious talk. Jesus, some people canât take a hint!</p>
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Same here, though I guess it must have seemed like purgatory to those who werenât participating. ;)</p>
<p>rm, db: nice tryâŠ</p>
<p>others: purgatory? hahaâŠnot reallyâŠ
but might not be a bad idea to start another thread as was suggested by DB and othersâŠ</p>
<p>âliturgical terrorismâ LOL</p>
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Probably better to let it go. The debate here has remained more or less civil so far, but past experience suggests that wouldnât last long if we gave it a thread of its own.</p>
<p>Back on topic, Iâm curious if anyone else has run into the ârevisionist cross-offâ phenomenon, i.e., the kid seemed to like the school and the location just fine when visiting, but weeks or months down the line insisted that they didnât like it at all. We experienced this to some degree with both Rochester and Clark.</p>
<p>^My parents think I did that! 
I genuinely liked Williams when I visited it, and was mostly fine with the location. But the more I learned about it, the more troubled I became by the drinking/athletic dominant culture, and ultimately I didnât apply.</p>
<p>^^^So you trusted rumors and innuendo more than your own eyes and ears?</p>
<p>VeryHappy, mini has linked plenty of articles to the Williams College newspaper to trouble me. </p>
<p>I thought my son liked Brandeis pretty well when we were there, but he insists that he did not. It seemed like revisionist cross out to me.</p>
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âRumors and innuendoâ is a pretty tendentious way of putting it, isnât it? What would you have prospective students doâcompletely ignore anything they read or hear about a schoolâs social culture? âYour own eyes and earsâ on a visit can tell you a lot of useful things, but there are also a lot of important things they canât possibly tell you.</p>
<p>As it is sometimes with oneâs fondness for certain people (or anything else, for that matter), we sometimes feel one way when we are at an ACTUAL college, and like the same college more/less when we are away from it because we are then evaluating the IDEA of it. (Plato nailed this distinction between objects and ideas of the objects; thank you required philosophy classes.)</p>
<p>mathmom: I can tell you uncategorically that Williams is being misrepresented.</p>
<p>I think itâs odd to jump to the conclusion that Keili trusted ârumors and innuendoâ⊠I expect she was able to talk to students and others who had experience and who shared her own cultural sense. You certainly canât tell everything from one visit, and thereâs all kinds of information available to be filtered in all kinds of ways. Intuition is an immense part of any college choice. </p>
<p>Iâm amazed with my own D who will offer some great reason Iâd never have guessed when I ask âWhy this?â or âWhy not that?â We both agreed to give up U of Richmond-- the mascot is a spider!</p>