<p>Will any of you be at the Admitted Student's Day, this Saturday?</p>
<p>Cheers,</p>
<p>WF</p>
<p>Nope. Visited 3 times already, the 5 hour drive isn't terrible...but still a hell of a long ride.</p>
<p>Came once Jr. year to check it out
Again this fall when my friends were visiting
Again a couple weeks ago to try for some scholarship</p>
<p>Yeah...the drive can be painful. An admission officer was telling me a couple tricks to ease the pain, a couple of whitman traditions (finding a person outside in the town right before walla walla, while driving -- almost impossible!) and what not, but it's still a long ride.</p>
<p>Will you be there in the fall?</p>
<p>Yeah I'll be there! my AIM is RussDeLaBuss if you want to chat or anything, hit me up.</p>
<p>Hey there! I might be going in the Fall too. It's either Whitman, Bucknell, Boston College, or U of M, but Whitman is in the top two choices. I might see you guys there! Can anyone tell me, though, anything that you've noted about the campus, professors, students, weather, dorms, food, overall atmoshphere, and anything else that comes to mind? I still haven't visited and I need to know more about the place than just what I've read online and in books. Thanks!</p>
<p>Check out the archives of this forum at:
<a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/archive/index.php/f-82.html%5B/url%5D">http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/archive/index.php/f-82.html</a>
There are a bunch of posts from students talking about life at Whitman and whatnot.</p>
<p>Also, check out this link, in particular the Student Journals thing was sorta cool:
<a href="http://www.whitman.edu/admission/2010/%5B/url%5D">http://www.whitman.edu/admission/2010/</a></p>
<p>Let me put it this way: somebody told me, during my visit, that "Whitman is not a college, it's a cult." To be quite frank, there may be some truth to that; there is a "special culture/ feel" to the school, as it seems to attract a specific type of student. Somebody even told me, "it seems that they filter all the wrong people during admissions; everyone is so nice here."</p>
<p>Good luck with your choice, all are great schools. But I seriously doubt you will regret choosing Whitman!</p>
<p>Cheers,</p>
<p>WF</p>
<p>P.S. Oh yeah! I remember one student complaining. He told me, "I don't buy that we have the 2nd happiest students, with Stanford's being 1st; I visited Stanford and they are not all that happy!" I thought that was funny:D -- he was pretty serious.</p>
<p>Both of you, thanks a TON. Just this thread has helped enormously. Where are you guys from? I'm from San Francisco. I desperately wanted to go to the admitted student day thing on the 15th but couldn't make it. That's so crazy that we might be going to college together.</p>
<p>My D visited Whitman last Thurs-Friday. She visited once in the fall, but classes weren't in session so she didn't get a good feel for campus life at that time. This time, she stayed overnight with a freshman who graduated from her high school last year, she went to some classes, and she had lunch with another couple of girls on the swim team -- one of whom is a friend of a good friend and in a sorority (something she is interested in), and one of whom started in January, which my D might have to do. To her surprise, she really liked it, and it has made her rethink her front-running choice (Denison) and some of her expectations about college life. She did comment on how nice everyone is, but she also mentioned an "openness" -- something that made her feel that she would be more free to be herself at Whitman. She hasn't been able to articulate this too well yet, still thinking about it. </p>
<p>Also, she found a prom dress in Walla Walla -- which she took as a sign. :)</p>
<p>Not sure whether she will end up choosing Whitman or Denison. (Her first choice was Occidental, but she wasn't admitted there.)</p>
<p>Are any of you going to the Whitman event in Burlingame on Weds.?</p>