@eh1234 My Ds also wouldn’t look at any schools in the south - and considered Virginia to be in the south.
My D17 didn’t want to (and didn’t) apply to any schools in California, where we live, because why make our lives easy. If she hadn’t gotten into her ED school, I swear she’d be about to attend Bowdoin, Bates or Colby just to be even more perverse.
Ursinus - mailers went directly to trash can. Not gonna tell people she attended Your Sinus. Frankly, I would have a problem with that as well.
Anyone remember Beaver College in Pennsylvania? It changed its name because prospective students didn’t want to go to a school with a name that would be laughed at.
Then you had the football player about 10 years ago who choose one school (Clemson?) over all the others because it had a Chick-Fil-A in the student union, and the others didn’t.
My son has categorically stated he will not look at any colleges with a reputation for having “smart” students. Smart people are annoying and if they are anything like his sister, no thanks. Meanwhile, he has suddenly got it into his head that West Point is cool. No smart people there, right? Help me.
I have a student who visited University of Wisconsin - Madison and is refusing to apply there because she doesn’t like the “W” in their logo. According to her, she wouldn’t be able to survive four years of a W whose middle peak was higher than the two outside lines of the letter. Seriously!
Computers at some high schools would not bring up Beaver College’s website due to filters designed to exclude porn sites.
Macalester college was in the running - accepted, decent aid, loved the location - but shortly after her then, and still current, BF was accepted to the University of Minnesota, Mac dropped completely off the list. “I do not want to go to college across town from where [BF] is going to school! He’ll probably want to keep dating.”
I didn’t see that one coming. You raised her right :))
My kids: Colgate - can’t apply to school named for toothpaste. Tufts - sounds like tufts of hair. Unpleasant and hard to say. Will never get a chance to reject them; they did it first.
@TomSrOfBoston I guess they can’t follow the sports teams of MIT and Caltech (and others), then? “Nature’s Engineer”
I can remember vividly saying " I am not going to anyplace that describes itself as a small liberal arts college in the…(usually followed by midwest or NE). DD18 is looking now and has said I will not go to a school that has fewer students than my high school. Then has 2 of 3 about the size of her HS
My DD16 chose not to consider Otterbein because she wasn’t “Being an Otter”
My daughter ruled out a women’s college because it was “too horsey”. The equestrians talking about their horses “the entire time!” annoyed her. I told her that since she wasn’t part of the “horsey crowd” it wouldn’t really matter, but she thought their level of enthusiasm was indicative of a psychiatric defect.
There are students out there who are thankful that some others wouldn’t apply for whatever reasons so they have a better chance!
I like the UW letter logo, it’s upbeat.
Assuming he gets past the admissions process and is admitted, he’s likely going to be eating those words while being ordered around/yelled at by the “not smart cadets”.
One early tour got off on the wrong foot because the kids went around and introduced themselves – and my daughter found out that she was one of only a couple sophomores in the group. Most were juniors. Embarrassing!
Son finally ruled out any predominantly red brick colleges because that architecture made him feel uncomfortable, wouldn’t look in Texas because he needed to be out of the state.
“Nope - mom went there.”
Son ruled out Florida and gulf coast schools due to hurricanes, Texas schools due to perceived Texan arrogance, tornado alley states for tornados, Arizona due to heat. I told him he should choose based on what color and mascot he likes best, haha.