<p>I thought I would love Notre Dame, Georgetown, and Cornell but I hated them.</p>
<p>I thouhgt I would hate Washington and Lee, Boston College, and UVa but I loved them. After an unusually successful admissions experience, I chose BC based on campus visits.</p>
<p>For where I'm going, I visited. And the second I came home, I sent in the deposit. :)</p>
<p>Creighton U. in Omaha...my family had a wonderful visit there. A very
livable campus. There is a next to campus and an art museum nearby.<br>
A separate (top) dorm floor for Presidential Scholars. When we saw this
dorm floor there were therapy dogs there romping with the students, to
relieve the students' stress during finals week! It was a spring visit and
there were students all over playing frisbee and curled up with their
laptops. I never heard of this place before his hs junior year.</p>
<p>I didn't like Indiana after visiting. Same with Maryland and NC State
Fell in love with GW from the start</p>
<p>I really disliked tufts after i visited it.</p>
<p>I disliked Wheaton College in MA a lot when I visited. I thought it would be a nice safety, but after touring I decided I'd rather take a year off than attend there. Probably because the library was really small and the campus was kind of ugly (although I did go on a rainy day).</p>
<p>On the other end of the spectrum, I had my ED app to Dartmouth ready to send out when I go the chance to visit Tufts. I LOVED Tufts soooooo much that I decided to apply ED there. And now that's where I am going!!!!</p>
<p>Middlebury!</p>
<p>Anyone visit Bowdoin College....any thoughts good or bad?</p>
<p>It wasn't my actual tour, but my information session where the lady explained Columbia's core that made me fall deep in love with the school. Although the building with all the cool classical names on the top (wow that's the worst description ever) also made me excited. I wasn't even interested in Columbia and now I love it. </p>
<p>Yale and Princeton pretty much confirmed my expectations. Loved Yale, hated Princeton.</p>
<p>Georgia Tech - Instantly loved it after I visited. I kept hearing how the campus was horrible but it really wasn't bad at all, it is very "compact" though, for lack of a better word. Everything seemed brand new, the exact opposite of UVA. Best tour of all of the colleges I have visited, though we met a financial aid person that wasn't very nice at all (an outlier, everyone else was nice).</p>
<p>Virginia Tech - Gorgeous campus, but it is almost too big. It's also in the middle of a field. All the buildings look the same too. Tour was very informative and organized.</p>
<p>UT Knoxville - My safety school. My aunt is a professor there so she showed us around. It's not for me, in just about every way...the highlight of my personal family tour was all the bars that don't ID you haha.</p>
<p>UVA - In one word: Old. No A/C in the dorms, which we weren't even allowed to visit. Everything seems to be falling apart. Tour was boring and unimpressive. I met one of the professors and he wasn't personal at all.</p>
<p>I was neutral before visiting UMiami, but I fell in love after visiting! The campus was so gorgeous, the students seemed friendly and inviting… I can really picture myself there.</p>
<p>I hated Umass Boston after visiting it (not that it was on my list before, but I went on a visit with my friend who was interested). We arrived on campus, walked about 10 feet, then decided to leave. It was dingy, lacked green space, and was just overall uninviting.</p>
<p>Georgetown- Dirty, small, boring, depressing. Looks really pretty from across the water, (didn’t apply)
UPenn- I don’t get why people trash its campus. I loved UPenn’s campus! It was like an urban oasis, cool architecture (#2 choice)
NYU- No campus, at all. Thought New York was awesome but my dad kept on saying “this place is weird” (didn’t apply)
Columbia- Sweet campus, looks very collegiate and prestgious. But wasn’t really my ideal collegiate atmosphere (didn’t apply)
Boston College- My dad loved it. It was very clean and nice. But I thought it was very dry and didn’t look collegiate or historic (didn’t apply)
Brown- Kind of an odd-disjointed place. Quirky architecture, didn’t really understand its appeal (applied anyway)
Cornell- Wasn’t even on my list but we were passing through Ithaca on the way to Michigan. Absolutely fell in love, can’t even describe it (applied ED- got in!)
UMichigan- Kind of an afterthought, not really all that memorable</p>
<p>D did not like Amherst or Williams ans hated Wesylean. I guess they were too small.</p>
<p>Visited American and it felt way bigger than I expected, was kind of unactractive and the area of D.C. it was in was a lot more busy than I expected. Thought the campus would be the “best of both worlds” type when it came to location and size, when it really didn’t feel that way to me. Doubt I’ll apply.</p>
<p>I remember not knowing anything about Wesleyan and then just visiting the phenomenal campus and letting my jaw drop at the beautiful view from and to the white marble and red brick library. Of course, that set the standard for my future college visits and I’m happy to say that Johns Hopkins was the school that topped Wesleyan for me as the ENTIRE campus was Red-Brick and White Marble Georgian Architecture, which I realized was what I LOVED. </p>
<p>I hated the Brandeis campus. At first, I enjoyed the Amherst College campus…but then realized that it was just very boring, stretched out, and too isolated for me.
Yale was ok, but after having visited Wesleyan, I couldn’t get into the Yale Collegiate gothic thing.</p>
<p>Uchicago was depressing. It was beautiful, but gloom seemed to emanate from every corner of the school.</p>
<p>Vassar was phenomenal. I loved the buildings, but found I loved the naturesque scenery the most.</p>
<p>Harvard was a major let down. I figured that with that much money, they might as well build an entirely new campus that’s not so disjointed, decrepit, and ugly. I felt kinda the same about Brown’s rundown buildings.</p>
<p>Georgetown was “blehhh” for me. I loved the actual oasis of Georgetown, but not the university. Some of the facilities looked rundown to me.</p>
<p>Notre Dame was very picturesque…though the campus was a little too big. lol</p>
<p>Columbia’s main quad was beautiful…though very very small. Didn’t like the fact that it was a few blocks from Harlem, NY.</p>
<p>NYU was in a great location with a stunning library. I didn’t mind the lack of campus whatsoever. I loved it.</p>
<p>Cornell. beautiful.</p>
<p>My S was in heaven at UChicago. Totally felt at home. Was waitlisted there and so he assumed he’d go to Michigan as most of his friends were. He HATED it within minutes of our tour. We felt like cattle being shuffled around, sports were way too overemphasized and our tour guide was not convincing.</p>
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<p>What do you mean, everything too crowded?</p>
<p>I decided to go to the University of Richmond after visiting. I was also considering Emory, Boston College.</p>
<p>My son visited Villanova and then didn’t apply.</p>
<p>Visited U of Richmond - it was great. Felt big. </p>
<p>Later visited Elon - another nice place that was bigger than Richmond but felt small (visited on a Saturday morning and it is a very small town). Everything is new - except some of the dorms and the music building.</p>
<p>Drove to Oxford (Emory) - nice, VERY small and remote. </p>
<p>Emory’s main campus. That place is off the charts. It’s the Varsity vs the JV, but don’t let anyone tell you it’s small. With the UG/Grads/a working Med Center - the place is jumping. </p>
<p>Belmont - fabulous. Hard to visit anywhere after Emory, but Belmont held up. Great music Tech studios, super new basketball arena/studennt center.</p>
<p>Transylvania in Kentucky. Way better than I thought. Small.</p>
<p>Stetson - the only so-so place visited. It grew on me though.</p>