<p>I really disliked Middlebury after visiting. I wandered around and asked for help from the students about where the admissions office was and they just looked at me like I was stupid and waved me in a random direction. It wasn't just one kid, I asked three seperate groups and got the same reaction.</p>
<p>When I went out to see UChicago and Northwestern, I went in thinking I would apply to UChicago and not Northwestern. Turns out, after visiting, I hated UChicago and loved Northwestern. Now if only NU will take me off their waitlist....</p>
<p>Cornell. I visited for like 3 days and it really wasnt what I thought it would be. Also Penn really was a let down b/c the campus was almost nonexistant (it is really city-like). I liked Hopkins though and it actually suprised me how nice the campus was especially since it was in Baltimore, but still was safe, quiet, and well kept (no to mention all of the new buildings built).</p>
<p>Syracuse, UMD, Bowdoin, Dartmouth, USC, and Berkeley.</p>
<p>I was happy to get into Cal after getting rejected from my top choice of UCLA, but I didn't feel as positively about it as I do now until I visited. It really made me want to go there more.</p>
<p>UCHICAGO?! It's Hogwartz~!</p>
<p>Georgetown for me. How you could go from D.C. to this nice, quite campus, look across the river, and it's hell again.</p>
<p>What's funny is I ended up NOT applying to most of the schools I visited. Granted, I didn't visit that many, but...</p>
<p>And it wasn't even due to bad experiences. I guess my preferences/priorities just changed.</p>
<p>My son didn't like Emory after visiting and didn't end up applying there even though it had many attributes he was looking for.</p>
<p>I think he pretty much liked every other school he visited, some on nice weather days, some in rain. They all had their charms. We only visited 8 or 9 though.</p>
<p>Thought Notre Dame would be like a convent, really didn't want to go until I visisted.......the campus is gorgeous</p>
<p>I thought Kenyon would be my dream school...until I visited. It was mid-August and one of the hottest days of the year, so granted I might have been biased. Everything was so old, but not in a pretty way. It seemed like they didn't maintain the campus. The classrooms were ugly and outdated, and the dorms were crammed and smelled as if someone had died in them. My weird tour guide didn't really sell the place either when he said:</p>
<p>"During my freshmen year, I lived in the same hall as two hockey players who would leave their pads in the hall every night which made it smell all the time."</p>
<p>Every student I did meet seemed just a litttttttle cooky.</p>
<p>Bottom line...the visit saved me from writing some nasty essays.</p>
<p>I thought I loved Brown and Columbia. After I visited I decided that I hated both.</p>
<p>i went to miami, and wasnt that impressed. maybe it was cuz of their dorms. dunno</p>
<p>i visited 27 schools, and liked about 4 of them enough to apply (luckily i got in ED to one, so it didn't matter). I remember I went to Colgate thinking it would be my top choice, and after the visit I concluded there was no way I would apply.</p>
<p>I was very impressed when I visited William and Mary!</p>
<p>lafayette- discovered that small schools were NOT for me. even though now almost done with freshman year, i think i couldve liked it at a small school but oh well</p>
<p>NYU- i love the city but i need a campus. didnt even apply after i got into BC</p>
<p>columbia- once again i love NYC but i just wasnt that impressed, the campus seemed really small and the surrounding area wasnt as good as NYU</p>
<p>Stanford just wasn't for me after I visited it.</p>
<p>Visting a campus definately changes how you feel about it. I thought that I was in love with MIT, until I visited, and decided that I wasn't quite nerdy enough to fit in =) Not saying I have anything against nerds... I am one. haha... And there were other schools that were only okay on my list until I visited them and then bumped them up several places</p>
<p>I thought I would fall madly in love with Amherst. My mother and I went to the info session before the tour we were scheduled for, and by the end of it, we were both thoroughly disenchanted. I don't even know exactly what it was about the campus, the speaker, or the student that made us react so strongly against it, but at the end of the info session, she whispered, "You know, there's no reason why we can't skip the tour". I responded, "Let's bolt!", and so we did.</p>
<p>I was actually very reassured by my visit to St. John's College in Annapolis. I loved the idea of the program, but I had been curious about the kind of students such an odd little college would attract- especially since I'm a relatively conservative person. But when I visited, they seemed pretty similar to the students I'd seen at all of the more conventional liberal arts colleges. Sure, there was more multi-colored hair, and a group of students playing a fantastic blend of country and Irish music in the quad, but these students were pleasantly quirky, not completely freaky.</p>
<p>I was relatively neutral to Stanford until I visited (3 times on separate, academic/business related occasions). Although the campus was superficially gorgeous, the buildings' insides, the kids, and the atmosphere really turned me off. I ended up not applying, which saved me from that monstrosity of a supplement Stanford uploaded to commonapp.</p>
<p>Upon initially visiting Notre Dame, I was sure that it would be an amazing school for me. When I stayed overnight after being accepted, though, the vibe bothered me a little bit. I was especially struck by the lack of diversity. It led to my eventual decision to pass on Notre Dame for Rice.</p>