<p>Juniors (or anyone younger I guess) what schools have you visited or looked into and what did you think? Do you have a pretty finalized list already?</p>
<p>I visited Amherst and UMass Amherst and basically UMass was just huge and seemed so impersonal. Amherst seemed too small though and all my tour talked about was how we should go there over Williams…basically didn’t really like either.
Visited Yale and LOVED it!</p>
<p>I’m planning more visits for spring break but my list now is basically</p>
<p>Reach: Yale, Dartmouth, Duke
Match: Colgate, Vanderbilt
Safety: Connecticut College, Gettysburg, Trinity</p>
<p>Visited: MIT, Olin, Northeaster, UNH, WEBB, WPI, Upcoming near term visits: RPI, RIT, Skidmore, Cornell, Clarkson URI. </p>
<p>30 schools scanned liturature/list/websites. 20 schools virtual tours. </p>
<p>Summer visits are pointless - students and professors are gone. In the engineering world, real application deadlines are so early that fall visits are kind of after the horse is out of the barn.</p>
<p>this is a great thread idea 
when i went to boston over the summer i visited BU & NE. except i don’t really remember too much cause technically it was a tour for my cousin’s friend who was going to be a senior & came from abroad. so i didn’t take any notes, but yeah 
from what i remember, BU seemed really cool & it was in an awesome area. NE may be a bit to preppy for me…in the group tour pretty much all of the kids were really well-dressed & appeared to be quite wealthy. whereas i was in sweats, so i felt like a hobo :/</p>
<p>I’m not actually a junior but I think I’m at the same stage as you… applying at the end of this year for class of 2014, right? (I’m international so the age/school year confuses me a bit)</p>
<p>Not managed to visit any yet but my list is pretty finalised I think:</p>
<p>Yale (applying SCEA), Princeton, Brown, Harvard, Johns Hopkins, Pomona, Amherst, Williams, Colgate</p>
<p>I’m toying with Oberlin, Middlebury and Chicago. I don’t know why but while I do like them, there’s something that just isn’t jumping out at me about them.</p>
<p>“Summer visits are pointless - students and professors are gone. In the engineering world, real application deadlines are so early that fall visits are kind of after the horse is out of the barn.”</p>
<p>I agree, summer visits are definitely pointless. Also it is not the best idea to go during April and May if you are a Junior because the grounds are packed with Seniors making decisions. Good luck to everyone starting the process!</p>
<p>So far I’ve visited…</p>
<p>UC Davis - definitely more impressed than I thought I would be. I mean, the location obviously isn’t fabulous, but I don’t think I’ll have a hard time getting in and it would be a financial safety.</p>
<p>Stanford - definitely impressed by something things, such as the research opportunities available. Otherwise, maybe my expectations were too high, but it wasn’t exactly what I was expecting…
And on a random note, I frankly do not see what everyone likes so much about the architecture! My mom commented that maybe it would have seemed more enchanting if I were from the east coast…perhaps she’s right?</p>
<p>I’m looking at University of Chicago, Vassar, and Penn. I plan of visiting University of Chicago during their Junior Day on March 30th, so I’ll be sure to post back and let everyone know if I liked it. Has anyone else looking at the schools I’m looking at?</p>