Emphasize the Positive about Some College You Like

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<p>This is a great idea. As a parent of someone looking at colleges, the input from actual students (or parents of students) with experience at a particular institution is very helpful.</p>

<p>The biased information from high school students researching schools is not as helpful. We can all get the same information about a school from the school websites, marketing brochures, or other internet sources and rankings.</p>

<p>Actual information and experience (like the post from boysx3) may be very helpful to prospective applicants!</p>

<p>This has much more credibility and value to others than the constant negative posts about schools that a poster can’t get in to, won’t attend, has no interest in attending, or got rejected from …;)</p>

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<p>UNC-Chapel Hill: Excellent academics, great weather, amazing sports programs, beautiful campus, hot girls, and a great location. What isn’t there to love? :)</p>

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<p>CLAREMONT MCKENNA COLLEGE </p>

<p>top notch academics, especially strong in econ/social sciences (gov/IR) w a Washington Program and an emphasis on public service and leadership, CMC is not the typical liberal arts school. Everybody is fanatic about politics and loves discussion, esp as the school is very well balanced in political views. the Claremont Colleges allows the school to not feel too small, and there is plenty of in class discussion and interaction for students. subsidized tickets to plays, concerts, trips are available through admin. who doesn’t love having their college pay for disneyland tickets?</p>

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<p>What a great thread, it is nice to read anything positive these days. I had the pleasure of seeing some great schools for the first time over the past 12 months. I can honestly find a positive thing about every school but these were the highlights for me:</p>

<p>St. Olaf: I had never been to Minnesota and loved Minneapolis, a truly underrated city. St. Olaf was a very pleasant surprise. Outstanding academics, beautiful campus, great community feel and some of the nicest, down to earth students and faculty we met in our travels. D is big into the whole green scene and St. Olaf is huge on sustainability, evidenced by the huge wind turbine that greets you from a distance. Their new science building is absolutely amazing. Even though it is a long distance away from home, I would have no problem if D chose the school. In fact, it would be my first choice for her but it is her decision. </p>

<p>Kenyon College: The campus is magnificent and there is so much for students to get involved with. It also has one of the best admissions process from the initial tours to follow up.A real class act. I can see this school making anyone that attends it a much more rounded and stronger individual. The students were nice, the faculty were also welcoming and they had some very nice, modern facilities. I loved the gothic buildings, campus and little village. It has, without a doubt, the best athletic facility we have ever seen for a college any size. It is massive by any standard.</p>

<p>Furman University: This is D’s favorite. I never heard of it until late last year. The campus is stunning, like a 5 star resort. The academics are equally impressive, particularly the close collaboration between students and faculty. They also have a tremendous Psychology program. Nearby Greenville is a great little city. </p>

<p>There are so many other great schools we visited but these stood out.</p>

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<p>Wake Forest University offers a unique blend of elite academics, school spirit, and campus life set on the lush canopy that is its Winston-Salem campus. Dedicated to providing an intimate learning environment, Wake Forest University provides the academic and professional resources of a larger university. The Wake Forest experience is defined by a tight-knit community where students learn to succeed academically and are well-equipped for the wider world.</p>

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<p>Cool thread.</p>

<p>Anyways…</p>

<p>UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN</p>

<p>…need I say more?</p>

<p>I also used to have a real nice post on why the University of Dayton was, like, the best university on the face of the earth, but I can’t seem to find it now. Oh well, it’s still awesome.</p>

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<p>To me, the most fascinating colleges are the ones that are much easier to get into than they should be, given their academic quality. Therefore, most of these make great safety schools:</p>

<p>U of Colorado…beautiful school in exciting town.</p>

<p>Fordham…beautiful school, highly regarded among Jesuit schools, diverse and vibrant neighborhood.</p>

<p>Clark University (Massachusetts) unique combination of small elite liberal arts college and small research university. Would probably be on par with Hamilton, Colby, etc. except it’s in a rather rough neighborhood. Very compact and with an interesting history (Goddard, Freud, etc.).</p>

<p>Santa Clara…already described above.</p>

<p>U of Oregon…already described above.</p>

<p>Kansas…people from the coasts confuse this fascinating place with more mundane big state schools in the Midwest.</p>

<p>Iowa…the smallest public in the Big 10. Iowans take their educations very seriously, and this place, like Kansas, isn’t just another big school amid cornfields.</p>

<p>U of Mississippi…love the small size, the history, the beauty, the bigtime sports, and the fact that it’s always mentioned as one of the least intense schools in the country academically…not everybody wants to spend his 4 years of college pulling all-nighters, and this seems like a place built just for them.</p>

<p>Alabama…sort of like Mississippi but you apparently have to open a book once in a while. Great no-frills old-school football uniforms.</p>

<p>Miami (Ohio), academics and campus similar to the U of Virginia, but much much much easier to get into.</p>

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<p>Great thread! I’d love to hear more, so bumppp!</p>

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<p>Yeah, this school is underrated, yet it is still spiraling downward. I don’t get it, especially since everything there is nice and new. Kinda depressing, really, especially since I’ll likely be screwed into going there for college.</p>

<p>Maybe it needs to stop being so much like UVA and lose its notoriously bad snobbiness.</p>