<p>i just got back from visiting colleges and i thought it'd be a cool thread to start if other people had visited too... which schools did you visit and what did you think of them?</p>
<p>Well, I won't reveal the name of the school because my review is negative (it's a tiny, tiny private school I had never heard of), but I did have a funny experience. I looked at tons and tons of Christian schools online over the summer, and if by looking around the website it interested me and seemed to fit me well, I set it aside for consideration. I got on the mailing list for the schools I really liked and after a couple months of that had narrowed it down to eight I wanted to apply to pending visiting.</p>
<p>Last week I journyed westward to take a look at three of those eight. I had positive experiences at the first two and jetted from them to the third, 3,000 miles from home. My flight landed in the city at 7am and the hotel wasn't going to have our room until 2pm. We drove around the city and I started falling in love with it. My mum and I decided to trot over to the campus and take a drive around.</p>
<p>First, the campus was so tiny we missed it. We circled back and spotted the sign the second time around. We drove onto the campus, and the roads were extremely narrow. We were greeted by the sight of the admissions office, which was about a third the size of my house and looked like I could quite possibly kick it over. Around us, similiar admin buildings gave the same impression. The only real buildings we saw were student housing. Those buildings were all over, so we knew the academic buildings had to be somewhere! </p>
<p>The next day we came back for the tour, and we found the academic buildings; they were at a part of campus that could not be accessed by car, and were converted trailers. </p>
<p>In other words, I flew 3,000 miles to see a school that had worse facilities than my tiny private school. Oy vey! Really, though, starting when we first drove off the campus, we were able to laugh about it.</p>
<p>What came out of the experience was really the desire to not apply not ANY schools I haven't visited! I used to be dead-set against summer visiting, and I still think it really can't tell one enough to make the right decision in most cases. But I've resolved myself to the fact that I will have to do some visiting this summer, and I'll at least know if I could handle living on the campus for four years.</p>
<p>ohh man that sounds awful!!! what other schools did you visit that you didn't like besides that really small one?</p>
<p>You should tell us the name. It'd be more helpful for students. Have you made a report in the 'college visits' section?</p>
<p>The most memorable college visit was to Cooper Union for me. I was considering applying because my brother goes to NYU so I would get to hang with him in the Village while getting a free engineering education. Well, when I visited we had expected it to be small, but it was fairly hard to navigate (like most schools in Manhattan the campus seemed disjointed and spread about) so we went looking for a tour to go on. Now this is where it got funny: they had a tour only once a year. Seriously. We had not even considered this idea until we got there, maybe if we researched a bit more we would have caught this detail, but to hold your tour once a year is ridiculous in my opinion.</p>
<p>Anyways, then and there I decided Cooper Union was a bit too small for me.</p>
<p>Kyle, I would be happy to PM anyone the name. :) I just don't feel comfortable writing a very negative review from one visit and then naming the school. I will say the school is:
tiny (less than 2,000 kids)
Christian
in the west</p>
<p>If anyone is interested in schools with that description, I would be more than willing to message over the name. :)</p>
<p>Wila, I actually enjoyed both Taylor U and IN Wesleyan U.</p>