<p>they don't want to apply to any other schools or don't want to listen to anymore advice. :)</p>
<p>I'll start. My kid is interested in big schools with strong school spirit or schools located in or near cities.</p>
<p>Univ of Pittsburgh
Univ of Wisconsin
Univ of Washington (He did visit but didn't think the school had enough school spirit).</p>
<p>Earlham. My D is interested in Japanese and Theater, and even spent two weeks at Earlham the summer after her freshman year. They've kept in contact ever since, even sending her a handwritten holiday card. She won't apply, and can't really explain why, since it is similar to schools to which she did apply (Gustavus Adolphus, Beloit, Knox, etc.).</p>
<p>Oh well. Her call.</p>
<p>Oh, drat! I think this is just his for '11ers. :(</p>
<p>Wellesley.</p>
<p>Nice campus, good reputation, near an interesting city, top department in my daughter's intended major (economics), great reputation for faculty-student interaction, and an oddly non-drinking campus, which I thought would suit my daughter, who finds the whole idea of alcohol repulsive.</p>
<p>I got the "Forget it, Mom" look the moment I suggested it. Apparently, after four years in an IB program with a 2/1 girl/boy ratio, going to a women's college would be unthinkable.</p>
<p>Wouldn't have minded one a little closer to home (i.e. Villanova, Swat or Haverford) but DD knew she needed to get away. I think she would have thrived at any of these.</p>
<p>Deadlines have mostly passed cur. You can add your stories.</p>
<p>cur, I think that you can join in the fun. I loved a thread last year, I think it was called, "colleges I wished I loved". It was a classic.</p>
<p>I'll add some comments in the past tense. </p>
<p>I wish S had applied to some LACs, or even gone to visit a few, but he would not even look at any school with a smaller enrollment than his high school. So nothing under 3,000 in size, which basically left out some very good potential choices for him for what he's interested in, including Pomona, Reed, Colgate, and the reachy NE ones. </p>
<p>Also, UChicago. We should have gone to visit the campus and talk to people there before he got a hold of guide books with that stupid "where fun comes to die" comment. Those are my personal woulda, couldas, mind you. He is happy where he is and not second guessing one bit.</p>
<p>D's a senior so this is progressively becoming past tense. I would have liked her to check some smaller New England state uni.'s and a few various other schools.</p>
<p>University of Connecticut--great state uni., but when we visited it, it didn't make a good impression on her, for some reason
University of Vermont
Goucher--she thought that it didn't offer enough variety of courses
Tufts
Syracuse</p>
<p>Sigh. I could not get D to apply to these wonderful schools:</p>
<p>Tufts (she thought it was too preppy)
Bowdoin ("too small." In my next life as a teenager, I'm applying to Bowdoin)
Oberlin (she read the Fiske description, and for some reason she decided no)
Boston University (too "businesslike")</p>
<p>Chapel Hill-too big
UVa-too big (made her apply anyway as we live in VA)
CMU-too geeky, doesn't have her intended major
ANY school above the Mason-Dixon line-too cold, doesn't like the politics</p>
<p>I really wanted my son to apply to Skidmore, but he wouldn't look at it and couldn't give me a reason why not. The summer before his freshman year in college we took his high school girlfriend to look at Skidmore and had the nerve to tell me that he wished he had looked at it more seriously for himself. But, he does love where he is now.</p>
<p>Carleton....</p>
<p>I wanted my S to apply to Georgetown, but he absolutely refused to. Said the campus made him claustrophobic. He was accepted by Boston College - then refused to go. Said he had been hoping to not get in so he didn't have to tell us he didn't like it either.</p>
<p>Ah, the memories, the memories.</p>
<p>University of San Diego. We're from Mass. D said "Too far away".</p>
<p>I wanted my D to apply to Wellesley and Brown, but nope . . .</p>
<p>I wanted my D to look at Wesleyan and Brown, but nope. PS--she transfered to Wesleyan the next year. And loved it.</p>
<p>I wanted my S to look at Carleton. And to look at Wes more seriously. Just not an LAC guy, I guess, but I'm not sure now it wouldn't have been better if he had been.</p>
<p>Georgia Tech - it's cheap.</p>
<p>He was "done doing applications." :(</p>
<p>Wisconsin and Michigan (too far away for my son), and now U of Delaware, because Dean Harker (Wharton) has gone over there to be president and it could give the place a boost.</p>
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<p>My D said the same thing when I mentioned to her recently that U. Wisconsin was still accepting applications until 2/1.</p>