<p>Yup....as time goes on...the more and more i dont like Colgate at all.</p>
<p>If you went to Colgate, you probably wouldn't like the strong anti-Cornell sentiment. Cross it off.</p>
<p>LOL...really??? AT Colgate??? Anti-Cornell sentiment? wow...i never heard of this...why so??</p>
<p>Colgate is awesome. But- have you considered Indiana?</p>
<p>Oh G-D....not Indiana again, lol...this is the 100th time....no, no indiana, sorry, no no no. Forget it. Thanks anyway.</p>
<p>Colgate isnt awesome for an anti-elitist, anti-upper class, liberal :)</p>
<p>to prevent an outpour of anger.....Colgate has many rich kids....stuck up....LI ppl, conservatives mostly....as far as what my research tells me</p>
<p>We visited Colgate with S and did NOT find the kids to be stuck up at all. They were friendly and there was a mix of liberal/conservative. It is a fairly small and expensive school, so you will get more than a fair share of wealthier students. The academics are great and it has D1 athletics, which is important to some.
(I was only teasing about Indiana, which is my alma mater by the way).</p>
<p>I think you should stick to schools in NY. Driving to and from some of the other major cities you mention (Hopkins, George Washington) would really be a bear if you had to do it frequently. Even the trip to and from Boston can be rough. I really hate driving in heavy city traffic though. Somehow driving from rural NY to Brooklyn sounds easier. Just my opinion...</p>
<p>lol, you know...as time goes on, the more and more will i realize that staying in NY is the only way, or at least in the tri-state area. Hopkins is in Baltimore, im skeptical of that. And i obviously eliminated GWU and Georgetown for the travel and distance and city of DC reason. I think half of my list is NY state schools, but since im almost definately eliminating colgate and vassar in the long run, it will be less. </p>
<p>Im not gonna drive anyway. Ill be taking a commuter bus, like a Ithaca-NYC or Boston-NYC coach bus. But i dont know, its May, school is over in exactly one month and ill be going away to Florida after that for a little while to just relax and have this off my mind. In July, ill be active again, and by then, i anticipate my list to become evermore realistic when it comes to where i really would want to travel to. But its not like i want to come back home every weekend. I dont. Its just it would be nice to come back to NYC once in a while.</p>
<p>There's a rivalry between Colgate and Cornell. It might be one-sided (on Colgate's part). I don't know. Haven't spent any time at Cornell. I think it's mostly due to the fact that they're both very good schools in the same area (some of the only two) and have very good hockey teams which play each other annually. I thought it was just athletic rivalry, but I went to a play at Colgate where they slipped in anti-Cornell lines. </p>
<p>As far as the students go, most appear to be elitist and rich and so forth, but if you talk to them as real people, they're mostly very nice. However, it does sound like you're looking for a bigger school, and if you don't like the atmosphere, definitely don't go. It's for a specific type of student, and those who aren't often end up transferring.</p>
<p>Why not Boston College?</p>
<p>Too conservative/catholic...i eliminated fordham for the same reason</p>
<p>B2C,</p>
<p>I would keep Vassar and dump Colgate. Vassar is incredibly close to home, has a great community, is liberal, etc.</p>
<p>Vassar is too small.....OK....lets review my list:</p>
<p>Please remember that my school has a limit of SEVEN Private school applications per student (cus its so big):</p>
<p>-Cornell ED
-NYU
-BU
-Brandeis
-Rochester
-Tufts
-Brown
-JHU
-Lehigh
-Union
-Syracuse</p>
<p>If you had to pick 7 out of these, which would they be? Include around 2 reaches, 4 possible, and 1 safety...if thats the best way?</p>
<p>Here are some good schools to look at:</p>
<p>UC Berk
Harvey Mudd
UCLA
U. Puget Sound
U. Washington
U. Iowa
U. Michigan</p>
<p>Cornell, Brown, BU, Rochester, Lehigh, Brandeis, Syracuse</p>
<p>A good way to narrow it down is to consider how you feel about an urban campus. Some kids thrive in that type of setting while others require the typical wooded fenced in environmnet. Lehigh reminds me of Cornell, has mountian biking and skiing/ boarding, but no city life at ALL. Lots of drinking. While NYU and BU are city schools and attract kids that want an urban lifestyle/learning/college life. What works for you? JHU is Baltimore. Does that city appeal to you? Brown has a different culture than many on your list. What do you like about Brown vs., say, Syracuse?</p>
<p>New Yorkers don't abbreviate their city "NYC", you prententious liar</p>
<p>you're kidding me right? wow.....that is completely absurd and ridiculous....im just appauled......speechless too</p>
<p>CC ppl, can u believe what he just wrote to me...read YellowDart's last comment. Im still in shock....the utter STUPIDITY!!!</p>