<p>My D just got accepted. She loved the school when we visited. She is very happy. I was just wondering how students from the East Coast like the school. Do you fit in? Does the campus empty out on the weekends or do most students stay? When you come home on break are there other Dayton kids in your area to hang out with?</p>
<p>I would love to hear from freshman with their first year experiences. Did you visit on the East Coast admitted student weekend before you decided? Do you think that would be worthwhile for my D to attend?</p>
<p>I like Dayton and I like the East Coast, but for different reasons. I loved the school.</p>
<p>Most students stay on campus for the weekend. There’s always something to do on/around campus on the weekends.</p>
<p>There is a decent amount of East Coast UD students, but more students are from the Midwest. If you break the US down into 4 regions, my estimation is the Midwest has the most students, followed by the East Coast, then the South, then the West Coast. That’s my unofficial guess.</p>
<p>There’s a great alumni presence in most major East Coast cities. For example, there are usually more UD fans at the UD-Fordham game each year than Fordham fans.</p>
<p>UD used to host an extremely large group of east-coast Catholics each year. Now, that number has dwindled some, but in turn has been replaced by a spike in in-state and midwestern interest in the school.</p>
<p>Still, the school is a great environment for the east-coast student. The large contingency of such students is still present on campus, and I’m sure your daughter will feel very much at home. Being one of the happiest schools in the nation, your daughter will not feel like an east-coast student: she will feel like any other student.</p>
<p>Obviously, the midwest and east coast have their differences, but I’d hardly say that there would be culture shock. Really, Dayton is a fairly cosmopolitan place, and actually looks and feels very similar to Philidelphia on a smaller scale, bizarrely enough. </p>
<p>There’s clubs downtown, a wide variety of theater, a great indie movie cinema, a popular “arts” district (and a popular “arts” 'burb - Yellow Springs), Brown Street and all of its college-related business, a great park system, two bustling malls and a lifestyle center, and all of this is accessible easily from campus by bus (yes, we have “cooler” electric trolley buses covering a fair portion of town). </p>
<p>So, there’s still a good, healthy dose of east coast excitement all in a nice outpost of midwestern coziness. What more could you ask for?</p>