<p>Son preferred colleges in the mid-west, says students aren’t as tall. He said this after touring UConn and URhode Island.</p>
<p>jym, my son wanted a CFA too, but unfortunately after he accepted admission to a school in a town with not one but TWO of them the anti-gay position of the company started making news…leaving him pretty conflicted about giving them his business.</p>
<p>
</p>
<p>We broke up before school even started. But yes, I’d absolutely make the same choice. I loved my four years at UW.</p>
<p>
</p>
<p>I laughed at this b/c as a transplanted midwesterner in the east, I feel so tall relative to everyone else. Where I grew up, girls were routinely 5’9" and boys were mostly 6’ (function of Norwegian/Swedish/German ethnic background). Was your son hanging around basketball players at UConn?</p>
<p>NJ Sue - He doesn’t play college sports but had in high school, so I guess that’s part of this persona. He chose a school in the MAC conference ~ maybe they’re not as tall as the Big East, eh?</p>
<p>The Chick-Fil-A thing is funny!! If people tried that up here in Michigan, Oakland University would be flooded since the only CFA in the state is located there.</p>
<p>When we visited Bowdoin the coach mentioned to the boys that Bowdoin had a rock climbing wall. One of the boys seemed excited about the prospect of a rock climbing wall on campus. The coach came over to the boy after he saw how excited he was and told him not to pick a college because of a rock climbing wall.</p>
<p>I went to Iowa State because my brother did. My brother went because his girlfriend did. We both hated it and it was an awful fit for both of us.</p>
<p>@LasMa There are dozens of colleges one could have chosen for skiing. BYU, Plymouth State, MI Tech, UBC being some of those; was that guy in-state for UWA?</p>
<p>S’15 won’t look at school w/o a football team.<br>
Doesn’t want to live in place that’s too hot or gets too much snow.<br>
Want strong engineering program.
Must have men’s swimming program that he can participate in (trying to convince him that a strong club team would be OK and probably less stress than NCAA).</p>
<p>I grew up in Arizona and I have to admit on my visit to a mid-west LAC I was entranced by all the squirrels. I ended up going there and I still like watching squirrels–thirty years later.</p>
<p>My H claimed that he went to Ohio Wesleyan because he liked their baseball field.</p>
<p>Perhaps not surprisingly, he ended up transferring twice.</p>
<p>He was from Michigan and was in at U of M. Why he didn’t just go there I do not understand.</p>
<p>As a HS soph., my S was set on Duke because he loved their basketball team. He doesn’t play basketball. Then he went to a soccer camp at UCSB, where they stayed in off-campus dorms in Isla Vista. They were allowed to walk around IV at night and he had a blast- came home saying he wanted to go to UCSB because IV is so much fun. For those of you who know IV, it would be quite an experience for a 15 year old. Fortunately, he matured before it came time to apply to schools and he has been very realistic about what he wants from a school.</p>
<p>IV is a parent’s worst nightmare.</p>
<p>I grew up near Santa Barbara, and as older classmates headed off to college there, we would go up on weekends to visit, attend concerts, etc. This was in the early 70’s, and my parents did not do a lot of supervising. While overall, I was a pretty responsible kid, I can tell you that I would never let my kids do the things we did then in IV. It was a lot of fun!</p>
<p>And I should’ve added, a college student’s dream 
It looked like a lot of fun. Too much fun.</p>
<p>I originally wanted to go to NYU Abu Dhabi because of the exotic location alone.</p>
<p>I originally wanted to apply at Tufts at the PhD level because the son of my father’s boss went there for dental school. </p>
<p>I only found out weeks later that I actually had a legitimate reason to consider that school: they had cosmology.</p>
<p>
</p>
<p>We both were. My college choices were UW or WSU.</p>
<p>I applied to case because the application was free and I heard cleveland has really cute boys. well i got in and got a half scholarship. hahahahahaha oh well. however i did some research and I honestly think I will like it there if I have to go.</p>