<p>Can anyone help me compile a list of colleges with discovery weekends?</p>
<p>Just add on!</p>
<ol>
<li>Swarthmore</li>
</ol>
<ol>
<li>Amherst</li>
<li>Williams</li>
<li>Wellesley</li>
<li>Wash U</li>
<li>Bates</li>
<li>Conn Coll</li>
</ol>
<p>U Delaware has a good one, i went and liked it.</p>
<p>thanks guys, does anyone know any others?</p>
<p>Can we get links to the WUSTL one?</p>
<ol>
<li>Middlebury</li>
</ol>
<p>Are these FALL or SPRING Discovery Weekends? The former can be applied to, the latter are usually invite-only for admitted students. And are you talking about the paid visits for minority students, or just “Fall Visit Day”-type things extended over multiple days?</p>
<p>Wrt to Fall diversity weekends, I know of Amherst, Williams, Swarthmore, Bowdoin, Smith, Oberlin, Grinnell, Carleton, Macalester, Wesleyan, and Scripps. The deadlines for some of these have passed already, and many don’t have web pages.</p>
<p>D just got one for Sarah Lawrence.</p>
<p>The Open House weekends at Wesleyan are a bit of a hybrid; they are open to everybody, but, do contain a significant travel and expense subsidy for people who apply. The application deadline for travel subsidies for the first weekend (Oct 12th) is September 21:
[Wesleyan</a> University : Admission](<a href=“http://www.wesleyan.edu/admission/tap.html]Wesleyan”>http://www.wesleyan.edu/admission/tap.html)</p>
<p>Rhodes College. [Rhodes</a> College | Admissions](<a href=“http://www.rhodes.edu/admissions/]Rhodes”>http://www.rhodes.edu/admissions/)</p>
<p>^ That Rhodes link is just to the main admissions page?</p>
<p>We don’t have the schedule for the fall/spring campus programs yet. If you PM me I can ask when the next Discovery Days will be and let you know.</p>
<p>Keilexandra, Don’t go there unless all expense are paid.
You won’t like their library. I have ever seen trashy popular paperbacks/chicklits alighted so perfectly in reading area of any other college libraries I visited.
Too much carpeting with fussy designs and stick-on stars on domed latex painted blue ceiling / ravenclaw common room minus magic.
Dorm smelled musty and chemical cleaner whiff of old motels.
Admission lobby has tacky multi screen thing with very staged students activity on four of them, few were news network, and last one was continuous Food network- barefoot Contessa making homemade granola. WHY?</p>
<p>@bears and dogs -</p>
<p>Sorry you didn’t like your visit; just goes to prove that not every place is a fit. Did you guys visit during a Discover Day, or some other time?</p>
<p>My thought is that you can tell a bit about a place’s priorities by looking at where its investments are. The library with its domed starred ceiling and crazy carpet was built with a single $38 million gift and is the largest, most expensive building on campus. Part of our Vision is to inspire students, and part of how we do it is making the core academic building the most impressive thing we can muster. You might also like to know that, to my knowledge, we never turn down a faculty request for adding new material. We don’t even bother with department-based acquisition budgets any more.</p>
<p>The other major investment you saw but weren’t impressed with was the Burrow Center for Student Services. We spent about 3 years and several million dollars reengineering the way we deliver services to students. We reorganized everything by putting students’ needs at the center of the processes rather than traditional office structure and convenience. That’s what we chose to do with the old library building that the new one replaced. It also allowed us to get a lot of staff out of the original main building at the center of campus so we can get the academics back there together where they belong.</p>
<p>The comment about the dorm smell made me laugh, though. I spent my freshman year in Glassell Hall, and I have to say, I’m pretty sure that strong chemicals are all that would manage to rehabilitate that building after freshmen get done with it every year!!! There are some newer dorms that don’t have that special, uh, “aura” about them, though ;-). The funniest part is that one time PR included us in a top 10 list of “dorms like palaces” lol.</p>
<p>You are good sport, Lynx.
Trouble is my interest area is in studio art, obviously not the “core” to you and the facility shows ‘this ain’t really our thing’ it is said could be supplemented by next door MCA, which is lovely with the park and zoo and all that, but it was an awful hot day and trek to from there was a nightmare.
Besides, the GATE! When questioned, our guide just smiled with most beautiful white teeth and did not tell us why and when they started gating the campus but told us how safe now because of the security. It was very inconvenience to get in and out from only certain corners.
One thing I forget to mention that turned me off the most… the amount of suicidal earthworms!! They came out from surrounding grassy area and dried up and dead on the pavement with all different sizes and shapes. So MANY of them! I saw maintenance folks trimming grass but they had no mind to do something with those dead bodies.
I am sorry but I am scared of Memphis.</p>
<p>MCA is a neat place, and for students interested in art I think it’s a huge advantage to be on the same grounds as the Brooks Museum. </p>
<p>I don’t know what your medium is, but have you seen the sculpture from Prof. Butler (<a href=“http://www.benbutlerart.com/[/url]”>http://www.benbutlerart.com/</a>)? I admit I’m not normally a huge art fan, but his work is just the most fascinating collection of things I have seen in three dimensions. Absolutely love it.</p>
<p>I think that the fence went up sometime in the early 90s. Anyone who wants can still just drive up and say they want to walk around campus, and a lot of the community members have memberships to the gym. But, having the fence does let the safety officers look someone in the eyes before they come on campus. I won’t say it wasn’t controversial when it went up, but I think it’s an appropriate safety measure for the 1250 kids who live on campus. </p>
<p>We’ll have to look into that unusually high earthworm mortality rate. Luckily we don’t have to report that in the Clery campus safety report ;-).</p>
<p>Wow those works are something. If you get chance, can you ask him why did he photoshop some of the images? That killed it…man.
I am afraid it is now way off topic and better stop. I will PM you if you care about more of my Memphis woes.</p>