my son was accepted to OU in the liberal arts college for Economics. After the tour of the Price College we walked over to the admissions office and asked them to change his acceptance to the college of business. Two minutes later and he was now accepted to Price. No application required - of course that might be different if he decided to transfer after his first semester of work in the liberal arts college.
University of Minnesota. Of course, we were there on a beautiful summer day! Will have to recheck in January.
University of Washington - Seattle campus. I generally expect flagship campuses to be large and utilitarian, not architecturally beautiful, attractively landscaped, and with a surprise view of Mt. Rainier. Too big for D, but I’d go there in a heartbeat.
@mamaedefamilia, it looks like the mountain is out today!
For my daughter, it was Harvey Mudd. Ultimately she did not choose it, but she was shocked at how much she loved the campus.
Macalester – although maybe that shouldn’t have been a surprise. Loved everything about it, was bummed D chose to attend elsewhere.
I love UDub too, @mamaedefamilia. That view is breathtaking. Although, to be honest, every flagship campus I’ve ever visited was at the minimum lovely (UDel) to pretty spectacular (Penn State, Bama).
Georgia Tech.
Completely not what we expected (the only reason we had flown in was to visit Emory…and swung by Tech since we were there anyway).
Green and beautiful. And a great walking campus in the middle of a very large city.
Has anyone had any recent visits they would like to share and get this one going again?!
I’m going to chime in with Reed College, a tiny school in Portland, OR (famous for being the school where Steve Jobs attended for one semester before dropping out). We had plans to tour other schools up there and my daughter did NOT want to go see Reed, thinking that it would have the same vibe as the small charter middle school she had attended years before, but I convinced her we should at least check it out since we were going to be up there anyway and had a free afternoon. Well, the minute she set foot on the campus and observed the students she decided that was the school for her, and that’s where she went! Going to school there confirmed that she was a prototypical Reedie after all!