My first college visit ...

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<p>to Georgetown, George Washington, and maybe Johns Hopkins.</p>

<p>has anyone visited any of these places ? and what are some good questions to ask and some key things to look out for?</p>

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<p>bump10char</p>

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<p>Visited George Washington because they kept sending me stuff (they’re not a good school for me, though). Hated it, there was no campus, they just own the buildings in a few city blocks.</p>

<p>See if you get brought into the Business school (I didn’t want to, not liking business). Written up some marble steps they have: “Who says business is all about money? George Washington University.” Made me really laugh.</p>

<p>Wish I had visited Georgetown, didn’t have time (GW was on the way to where I was going), but hopefully I will soon (I applied). Also visited CUA, which had a real campus, and I liked better.</p>

<p>Edit: I’ve also visited the University of Florida twice, but just for national debate tournaments, never for tours or anything like that.</p>

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<p>You will learn to hate these visits…</p>

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<p>Haven’t visited a college yet. Eep. :&lt;/p>

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<p>noimagination: why would i hate the visits ?</p>

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<p>I visited Georgetown.</p>

<p>Every college visit ends up being the same and blending together. Take notes on things you really like and raelly hate at each school to keep them separate and try to ask a series of questions that are unique to you, but ask the same questions at each school and record the responses. That was what I did in order to keep track of all the schools I visited.</p>

<p>Seriously, if you don’t write it down… they’ll all melt together.</p>

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Because a significant percentage of every visit is a) boring and b) identical to every other school’s visit.</p>

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When I visited CUA and GWU, each claimed to be the ONLY school in DC with a metro stop on campus. The girl at CUA said GWU’s wasn’t really on campus (it was, not that you can tell what is/isn’t campus there), and the guy at GWU said he knew but they still told him to say that.</p>

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<p>Basically… as I live around the corner from the first two… they’re almost identical to me.</p>

<p>Georgetown just looks nicer… and GW looks like a heap of buildings.</p>

<p>John Hopkins… I dislike Baltimore so when I saw it, I was eh.</p>

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<p>I’m possibly visiting Vanderbilt this summer and that’s about it.</p>

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<p>My dad’s taking me to see Duke, UNC, and Vandy.</p>

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<p>i’ll never go to vanderbuilt just because of tenessee .</p>

<p>im thinking of duke but i dont know .
and maybe LOOK at one “ivy” to satisfy my parents. not that i’ll be applying…</p>

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<p>I went to Georgetown, and I may be going to Johns Hopkins next week.</p>

<p>Georgetown was very nice. The info session does a good job of giving a sense of history as well as the essentials of what you need to know. The tour was different than any other I’ve been on, but in a good way. We didn’t see a dorm, nor a dining hall, but rather walked around the campus while the guide described the student experience (class sizes, housing opportunities, tickets to basketball games, etc.). The buildings are mostly old, ornate and rather impressive, even if the library (<a href=“http://farm2.static.■■■■■■■■■■/1145/1374651807_82b93383aa.jpg[/url]”>http://farm2.static.■■■■■■■■■■/1145/1374651807_82b93383aa.jpg&lt;/a&gt;) is impressively ugly. The only negative part was a distinct anti-football bias from the tour guide, who made several disparaging remarks about the GU team.</p>

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<p>^ That may be the ugliest library I’ve ever seen. Glad I’m not going to Gtown</p>

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<p>I kind of like brutalist architecture. I think the U Waterloo library still has an edge: <a href=“https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/27fUwYv1zDwBaBe_5Wdvmw[/url]”>https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/27fUwYv1zDwBaBe_5Wdvmw&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>when you visit johns hopkins be careful. baltimore is probably the most dangerous “college city” after New Haven. seriously. it’s really ugly too…</p>

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<p>I like it too. I’m typically in favor of bold statements, no matter how ugly. There’s just something so powerful (and kinda creepily erotic) about huge concrete monoliths.</p>

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<em>facepalm</em> What’s wrong with Tennessee? Don’t cross a school off your list because you don’t like the state. That’s stupid as hell.</p>

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<p>I think all forums would be better if everyone just downloaded Firefox and took advantage of its automatic spell-check feature.</p>

<p>^ Also, you corrected “tenessee” but not “vanderbuilt”?</p>

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