<p>UCLA lied when they said 95% of the campus is wifi accessible >:(</p>
<p>laplatinum, how is the 4-yr plan in your S’s college? No summer required at all? How many units per sem? With the UCs if your child has a lot of AP credits then 4 yrs. is doable.</p>
<p>Nothing important. But while staying at a college for a summer program (3 weeks). The food was meh… except during future (admitted freshmens’) parents week.
We were served crappy pasta and make-you-own sandwich bars most of the time. While the parents we there we ate awesome sandwiches had a yogurt/salad bar, got nice dinners, had think-crusted pizza made in-kitchen, had chopped fruit, and had actual desserts every day. According to the coaches and returning kids this happened every year. Needless to say after the parents left we were back to crappy food.
I’d imagine this doesn’t happen at large colleges, but other small colleges might make an effort to beef-up their food quality for prospective students. Just something I thought was funny.</p>
<p>When visiting Chicago w/D2, who was interested in a theater program for actign, we trekked down to U of Chicago because their website made much of their program. We got there, took the tour, and it appeared to be virtually non-existent (no real theater facility, tour guide unaware of any such program). When we returned to the admissions office at the end of the tour we asked for a catalogue, looked through it, still couldn’t find it. Had two admissions officers look, too, and they couldn’t find it either.</p>
<p>So, I wouldn’t say we were lied to, but we were definitely fed some over-the-top marketing hype by the website folks. Fortunately we figured it out that day, but it was still a day which we could have used for other purposes. </p>
<p>p.s. To all the posters whinging about “they only bring out the good food when they’re marketing to you or the parents are there” - that situation is as old as the hills, and can be found just about anywhere. Sometimes reality just bites.</p>
<p>At the all-male college my DS attends, the tour guides make a point to dispel the rumor that bus loads of women are shipped in each weekend. Apparently many enthusiastic alumni exaggerate a bit to east the minds of prospective gentlemen that women are never on campus.
They also make a point to talk about how hard the classes are. It is the kind of place that knows that the environment is not for everyone so they seem to go out of their way to mention the negatives.</p>
<p>“To all the posters whinging about “they only bring out the good food when they’re marketing to you or the parents are there” - that situation is as old as the hills, and can be found just about anywhere.”</p>
<p>Making a positive presentation to those paying the bills? Whoda thunk???</p>
<p>I don’t think it’s a lie so much as not seeing the truth, but campus tours when I joined UNC Chapel Hill dramatically downplayed the male/female imbalance.</p>
<p>for those curious now, according to collegedata, of the approx 18k undergrads, 58% are women</p>
<p>Doesn’t sound like a big disparity I know, but take into account that there are far more gay men than lesbian women, and there’s a noticeable slant in the number of straight men versus straight women.</p>
<p>So many colleges have that gender imbalance now.</p>
<p>To do her justice, MAIMIE Gummer now has her own series and has made quite a few movies. That doesn’t excuse Northwestern’s silliness.</p>
<p>My son was seriously considering one private university that had a major omission - that most freshman would be living in double rooms being used as triples or lounges converted into quadruples. We attended events on the campus on three different days and talked to students, and it wasn’t mentioned. The dorm tour was of a sophomore dorm. If you sent in your deposit before you got a financial aid offer, you could get a double, but if you waited until after the FA came out, you got stuck in a triple.</p>
<p>We didn’t find out about it until a post on CC.</p>
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<p>The colleges with high numbers of health care and education majors, and that do not have an engineering school, have particularly high percentages of female undergrads.</p>
<p>UD lied about prof accessibility and about ability to get required courses and registration priority. After the fact when I asked about it… they cited “systems problems” (explaining that priority was affected)… change in staff (apparently many profs within same dept left prior to the same semester therefore understaffed), also advisor not very useful (presented in open house as informed and helpful).</p>
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<p>What part of Chicago’s website do you mean? Maybe the following one?
<a href=“Arts Institutions & Programs | University of Chicago”>Arts Institutions & Programs | University of Chicago;
<p>There’s a link to courses from the above page:
<a href=“Arts Institutions & Programs | University of Chicago”>https://arts.uchicago.edu/content/courses</a></p>
<p>Did you not get to tour the new Logan Center?
[Reva</a> and David Logan Center for the Arts | UChicago Arts](<a href=“Arts Institutions & Programs | University of Chicago”>http://arts.uchicago.edu/content/logan-center)
[O-Issue</a> 2012: Inside Logan Center for the Arts – The Chicago Maroon](<a href=“Saul Bellow, dead at 89 – Chicago Maroon”>Saul Bellow, dead at 89 – Chicago Maroon)
[Logan</a> Center for the Creative and Performing Arts, University of Chicago / Tod Williams Billie Tsien & Associates | ArchDaily](<a href=“http://www.archdaily.com/40619/center-for-the-creative-and-performing-arts-university-of-chicago-tod-williams-billie-tsien-associates/]Logan”>Logan Center for the Creative and Performing Arts, University of Chicago / Tod Williams Billie Tsien & Associates | ArchDaily)</p>
<p>Part of it is self-selection – when the theatre professor told us that only 12 people out of a campus of 25,000 are accepted to the program, we chose to believe that our brilliant child would - obviously! - be one of them. When another adcom told us that only very motivated and talented students were accepted to a particular major, we knew that our brilliant child would be one of them. As in Lake Wobegon, students never skip class, have difficulties adjusting, drink to excess on Thursday nights, or end up in boring jobs after graduation.</p>
<p>When visiting a small state U in Arkansas, my D had indicated that she was active in her HS debate program and was interested in continuing that in college, so the admissions contact emailed that, on our tour, we would meet with “a faculty member involved with their debate team”. It was more than awkward to meet with their speech prof, who was as baffled as we were, because they do not have a debate team. Period. None. That’s an hour that neither the prof nor we will ever get back…</p>
<p>Got to say that I was incredibly impressed on a college visit recently when a department head shared the true philosophical leaning of his main professor of economics when he knew that would make the department less attractive to us. He was embarrassed, but honest. Love it.</p>
<p>^How would he know what your economics philosophies were?</p>
<p>I will say that I felt like there was a certain amount of dishonesty at Baylor University. Since it is last last choice for my children (they are applying there as back up school and that is it) we will probably not find out.</p>
<p>But basically, when we visited on the weekend, we received info from some students that were not reps. And the campus was empty almost. Later, when we visited for an official visit, the information given about campus life was different.</p>
<p>So I asked questions point blank such as “why do so few kids live on campus?” and was never answered even though I asked several tour guides and such. I asked where they live when they go off campus and how they would get to class. I was never given an answer to that. When I asked if they wanted to stay on campus all four years, again, I was never told if this was even allowed or possible.</p>
<p>There were a few other red flags.</p>
<p>I (and my D) were frustrated with the University of Hartford. She was concerned about being placed in freshman housing because she wasn’t really thrilled with the amount of partying that she saw in her own freshman dorm. I wasn’t there and she was partly concussed at the time – long story 
– so she didn’t recall who she had spoken to. It wasn’t until much later that I learned that she & her Dad has asked someone representing campus housing and someone else (not a student helper), and had been assured by both that she would be in upperclass housing. Over the summer, the automated app that she used to indicate her housing preference didn’t list the freshman dorms. She was shocked when she received her housing assignment in late August assigning her to a freshman dorm. She contacted housing and was told there was no mistake. I contacted housing and they said she didn’t have enough credits transferred to qualify as a sophomore, but could change housing after the first semester. Once she got to campus, it turned out that she actually did have enough credits to qualify as a sophomore, but by this time, she was already moved in. She was offered the opportunity to move (although this was only after someone in a different administrative office became aware of the situation, wondered what she was doing in a freshman dorm, and got in contact with Housing on D’s behalf.)</p>
<p>I don’t think she was lied to, exactly – I think someone in Housing just screwed up, and nobody that we contacted felt like changing it. What was even more frustrating is that there was plenty of room available in upperclass housing. But it one of those Life Lessons in dealing with bureaucracies…</p>
<p>Certainly not a lie, but I felt that it was somewhat misleading at the Rutgers info session how the admissions officer hyped so much that Rutgers is a member of the AAU (American Association of Universities). While it is a prestigious designation, in my understanding it is primarily granted because of graduate school research, so I don’t know why it was hyped so much to potential undergraduates.</p>