<p>Potential negatives about Notre Dame: Religious student body, not diverse, conservative leaning, Indiana</p>
<p>LOL !!Purdue means "fart" - that means our Governor's name is Sonny Fart (I live in GA)</p>
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I can see why BU and NYU are disliked...most people don't think it's too much to ask that a college have a chunk of grass upon which to toss a frisbee. </p>
<p>Playing softball at BU is something like 1st base is a rusty stop sign, second base is a pile of steaming dog doo, third base is a McDonald's trash can; if you get hit by a speeding trolley, you're automatically out. When winter rules are ineffect, the rules are the same except the dog doo will be frozen.
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<p>There's a field right behind West Campus, not to mention plenty of people play frisbee on the BU Beach.</p>
<p>"Potential negatives about Notre Dame: Religious student body, not diverse, conservative leaning, Indiana"</p>
<p>I agree someone could easily hate Notre Dame for those reasons IF THEY HAVEN'T BEEN THERE. Once you see the place, I can see thinking it's not your cup of tea, but hating it? It's as beautiful, compact, clean, safe, cohesive, and famous as any school in the country...I guess all that is trumped by geographic and religious stereotyping. </p>
<p>Yeah, the religious student body that won't force its religion on you (unlike the folks at "open-minded" schools who will fight and shout to keep the opposing viewpoint from even being heard); the un-diverse student body...some people actually come from diverse places and don't need a college to have a strong Affirmative Action plan so they can meet their first underrepresented minority); conservative leaning (oh my, the kids get so much conservative brainwashing in elementary, middle, and high schools these days, they have to go to a liberal college or else they won't be exposed to liberalism at all!); Indiana...what could be worse than being in the Midwest??</p>
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Once you see the place, I can see thinking it's not your cup of tea, but hating it? It's as beautiful, compact, clean, safe, cohesive, and famous as any school in the country...
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<p>Yes, because that's what college is all about, right? Superficial looks and prestige?</p>
<p>yeah, you don't think all the students go to the Ivy league for the bad weather and ugly girls, do you? CC is the epicenter of superficial and prestige obsessed people.</p>
<p>"Superficial looks and prestige?" </p>
<p>One man's "superficial looks" is another man's "well-funded, carefully-maintained, epertly-managed." I stopped by ND once during the summer a few years ago, and there was an army of craftsmen fixing every square inch of the campus. What I got out of that scene is that the administration really really cares about the campus, and they are effective at getting things done. </p>
<p>Kyle, if you want to twist that into something negative, be my guest. Anybody who has ever been in charge of a place knows how difficult it is to coordinate an effort like that.</p>
<p>And ND shouldn't have to apologize for being prestigious and famous. It's a small non-Jesuit Catholic school in a gritty town in a flyover state. Nothing even remotely glamorous is nearby (Chicago is quite a drive away). In contrast with Georgetown, it is unapologetic about its Catholic roots. It should be praised for maintaining such a high profile nationally with these things going against it.</p>
<p>TourGuide446: you missed my point. The thread is about schools you would NOT go to; your justification for liking ND is its looks and prestige. I don't think that's much of a justification.</p>
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<p>LOL a college in the middle of the united states. ie kansas state or something</p>
<p>Manhattan, Kansas is supposed to be quite nice.</p>
<p>I would never go to University of Calgary, mostly because I wanted to leave home but also because there are many other schools that are a lot better, especially for the programs I'm interested in. </p>
<p>I would probably hate going to a school in the middle of nowhere. Cities are great. :)</p>
<p>I stayed at UCalgary. Damn nice dorm rooms :D</p>
<p>Never ever UBC.</p>
<p>Because I live right next to it. I'd never go to SFU either, basically any schools in Vancouver I'd steer cleer of =P</p>
<p>I would never go to the community college at my town for college.</p>
<p>kansas isn't that bad..</p>
<p>Carnegie Mellon....to boring</p>
<p>Brigham Young University. </p>
<p>Honestly, I don't know why ANYONE who's not Mormon would go there. There's such a strict honor code in place and it's in Utah (and not in Salt Lake, so it's really not anywhere that great). For me, it's just not a fit. I rather go to Devry or a local community college than pay the 30 grand it takes to go there. </p>
<p>Either way, I can pretty much bet the university would totally kick me out within 2 seconds.</p>
<p>My friend was applying to BYU the other day, and on the application they ask if the applicant believes in plural marriage. </p>
<p>Anyway, I too would not go to BYU...unless maybe it was BYU Hawaii, and even then.</p>
<p>I would never want to go to Cleveland St U. Downtown Cleveland (the Browns! YUCK!) - and sickly green and gold for their school colors. What could this school possibly have to offer ANYONE?</p>
<p>Other non-choices: Chicago State (that's an education?); Temple (it's scary there), West Virginia U (they burn furniture there when their teams win). In addition, I'd be very hard-pressed to martriculate at a religious college that was overtly NOT my religion. Also, I think I would be a drop out at Berkeley and Reed.</p>
<p>Lots of bad mouthing of community colleges here and some obvious elitism. Unfortunate but not unexpected.</p>