<p>This sounds fun!</p>
<p>How about Hampshire, Columbia College Chicago, and/or Emerson?</p>
<p>Anyone have anything for Dickinson, Lehigh, William & Mary, or Colgate?</p>
<p>mnasy why would you want to ignore the rich kids at penn they throw the best parties (that is if you can get in...)</p>
<p><a href="http://dankpictures.smugmug.com/%5B/url%5D">http://dankpictures.smugmug.com/</a>
pictures of some great penn parties</p>
<p>Anybody wanna sum up the follwing school for a foregin student who is thinking where to go for a good time but knows when to work:
Harvard
UCLA
UPenn
Yale</p>
<p>if you want that kind of atmosphere go to UCLA or Penn...at Harvard and Yale social life is practically non-existant. Plus we have a ton internationals here at penn and we all party together (well at least the international from latin america and Europe)...the asian internationals tend to party with each other.</p>
<p>thanks alot, everyone seems to love upenn here (or is it just me), i love California, only been once but it was the most amazing vacation, you have also covered another concern of mine which was friends as hardly anybody from england as far as i know applies to the us especially as i come from a "common" school which has so many chavs (im sure how familliar you are with the term but they are truely vile) i take it that there are not snobby rich ppl alone and Upenn and ucla?</p>
<p>thanksTheDad re your comments</p>
<p>We just got back from Parent/Student Orientation weekend at UCSB. It was informative...and yes, I can see how a student can fall through the cracks there. It's big and the distractions are intoxicating.... Hopefully, our son will be focused, he's pretty excited about the club lacrosse and major he's chosen.</p>
<p>Colgate -- beautiful campus, beer, isolated, cold, nice acceptance letters</p>
<p>Anyone have anything to say about Rice? For reasons, that are unfathomable to me, it is incredibly appealing, despite completely not fitting the profile of what I originally thought I wanted.</p>
<p>I don't know about one-liners but Rice is an excellent value; both in terms of an education in science as well as some liberal arts. And for the price, it is well worth it. Rice is one of the top colleges in America and has an LAC feel to it..small class sizes, a lot of individual attention etc.</p>
<p>I have a friend who went to rice and his description would be: intimate, personal, intellectual experience. Great LAC vibe with the offerings of a city.</p>
<p>Hey, maybe Xmere's D should check out Rice?</p>
<p>Yeah, that's the feeling I got from it. I love it, the only problem is that it's so far from home (NY). If I decide I can deal with that, I'm definitely going there.</p>
<p>Am checking furiously. Honesty compels me to say that my years in Austin did not leave me with a warm and fuzzy feeling about Houston. Just hippie snobbishness, I think. A good friend went there, so it must be okay, though. He then went to Yale law school, so I guess the polls are still open on how he turned out. (Joke, just in case I have offended anyone.)</p>
<p>Really, this is all so daunting. What's so terrible about Big State U? I feel nicer about that every day, considering what an ordeal this is going to be. Is, actually, already.</p>
<p>Has anyone seen that funny Capital One visa card commercial? The guy who always says "no!" to the unfortunates who call? Swarthmore? NO. Willliams? NO. Amherst? No way, Jose. Kenyon? No. Fraternities? NO. Sororities? No.</p>
<p>And this is just from my daughter. Wait until the admissions directors get started.</p>
<p>Xmere, Very funny. As my co-op board used to say, we reserve the right to reject for any and no reason. What's she saying YES to?</p>
<p>Sigh. Wesleyan, Chicago, Wisconsin. Maybe Michigan if they shape up to suit her. </p>
<p>She hasn't even seen Wesleyan yet. I think she is thinking four-year cocktail party with intellectual diversions and teachers so cool that grades are a recognition only of lame societal mores. </p>
<p>I am thinking a gap year in an auto assembly plant for a reality check.</p>
<p>To theDad.............I laughed for a good 5 minutes on that "good morning class" scenerio!</p>
<p>Heh. Luliztee, are you a graduate of one of those colleges?</p>
<p>lehigh (my sister went there)- middle of nowhere</p>
<p>Florida International anyone?</p>
<p>The Dad.........</p>
<p>Wouldn't I have loved to have graduated from Weleyan.........no.......just thought it sounded right from the reading I've done about them.</p>