<p>We're doing a last-minute East Coast spring break college visit trip - it's a whirlwind trip for a bunch of reasons and our time on each campus is limited. So in visiting:</p>
<p>University of Pittsburgh
Brown
Yale
Vassar</p>
<p>...any advice on "must-sees" or any other commentary/comparisons would be greatly appreciated! </p>
<p>Our daughter is a senior, planning on majoring in cognitive/neuro-science or something similar, and won't know if she's in at Brown, Vassar, or Yale until we're on the trip. She's got great stats etc., etc. so hopefully she'll have the opportunity to choose from some of the schools above plus some others closer to home (Midwest).</p>
<p>Thanks in advance for any advice!</p>
<p>Take the official tour and definitely go in the Cathedral of Learning. If you’ve never been to Pittsburgh you may also want to go up Mount Washington (by car or incline) to take in the view.</p>
<p>^ I would second the Cathedral of learning! It looks like Hogwarts!</p>
<p>Contact the neuroscience department and they will let you sit in on a class and perhaps meet with a professor. The Cathedral is awesome - check out the view from the Honors College floor near the top.</p>
<p>This may sound mean…but I would skip Vassar. Yes it’s a very selective Liberal Arts school…but it’s in Poughkeepsie NY, not the the best representative of a City in upstate NY. It’s a tiny school (2400) so unless small is what you are looking for, the other three will have a lot more to offer. As far as Pitt is concerned, be sure to walk around upper campus and try to see Sutherland, as if your DD is applying to those schools she’ll probably be honors college eligible and therefore able to live there as a Freshman.</p>
<p>Thanks for the advice everyone!</p>