<p>S1 wanted a body of water on or adjacent to the campus and club or intramural hockey.</p>
<p>S2’s entire non academic criteria was a Chipotle restaurant on/next to campus.</p>
<p>Both got their wish and both are happy!</p>
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One word of advice: Mountains. If you go somewhere in the Midwest, you’ll get cold winters. But summers will still be hot and very humid.</p>
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This shouldn’t be very difficult to find. I’ve seen this offered a lot at different types of schools.</p>
<p>EDIT: Apparently, my school only has “Old Testament as Literature” as a course. I guess Jesus isn’t a worthy literary character (kidding, of course).</p>
<p>For my daughter, it had to be walking distance to Broadway.
Narrowed her choices down a bit…</p>
<p>Lol^, what college is within walking distance from there though NYU? </p>
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<p>Mine are:
-in Texas (I live in Kansas now and miss it so much)
-proximity to Panera
-somewhat liberal student body.</p>
<p>It narrowed my choices down a lot.</p>
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Technically, Columbia is within walking distance of Broadway since it runs through campus. :P</p>
<p>Though, if she meant the Theatre District, that would limit it to NYU or Cooper Union. She knows that NYC has subways and taxis, right?</p>
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Especially that last one! :O</p>
<p>Broadway does not run through Columbia. Barnard is on the west side of the Avenue and Columbia on the east.</p>
<p>Broadway in that context means the theater distict. Fordham’s Manhattan campus is practically in the theater district at Lincoln Center and an easy walk to Times Square. Denzel Washington attended their program.</p>
<p>Hunter is just cross town.</p>
<p>FIT is not a bad walk and neither is NY Tech. And there are others.</p>
<p>I meant Parsons and School of Visual Arts instead of FIT.</p>
<p>NYU is not particularly close to the Theater District and neither is Cooper Union. They’re down town, obviously, not midtown. You could walk if you really wanted to, and my D did walk from Barnard on very rare occasions, but only in very comfortable shoes.</p>
<p>Hey, that’s what the subway is for!</p>
<p>Re Jamba Juice…could be fibbing, but also could be that Jamba Juice has expanded since he said it, which was four years ago. BU was the first school she saw, which I think makes it four years. OR he was misinformed/fibbing, which certainly worked to DD’s advantage since she now loves the school. I suppose Alls Well That Ends Well, as someone once said :)</p>
<p>By moderate, he does not want a school that has 9 months of cold weather/snow or intensive heat.</p>
<p>Trader Joe’s and good public transportation.</p>
<p>So MACCLASS–that pretty much leaves everywhere in the country to look–makes it easier :D.</p>
<p>She goes to Fordham University, Lincoln Center campus.
She loves the location! She walks back and forth from shows in the theater district because she is usually so full of adrenaline and excitment. She will take a subway if it’s pouring or cold or she’s in heels that hurt. Otherwise, she likes the walk. Usually she calls me while she’s walking back to her dorm, telling me about the show, who she got to sign her Playbill, etc…</p>
<p>She looked at NYU, but loved Fordham.</p>
<p>LeftyLou: Sure, walk from Fordham, as I said. I meant subway for Columbia or NYU. Yes, Fordham Manhattan is in a great location.</p>
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<p>No to the latter. My kids grew up on Jamba Juice in New York City years ago and were very happy to find a store here in Minnesota when we moved here 9 years ago. According to Wikipedia, it’s a California company that was operating under a different name until they bought out Zuka Juice, a nationwide smoothie seller, and started opening sotres under the Jamba Juice name in 1999, beginning in New York City.</p>
<p>I think the tour guide was either just trying to sell a whopper, or was just terribly misinformed. It could be the latter. There aren’t many Jamba Juices in New England, and there might have been only 1 in Boston at the time. It could be that this kid had seen them all over California but knew of only 1 in Boston and extrapolated from that limited data to conclude that the 1 in Boston was the only 1 east of the Mississippi. Some people are that provincial . . . and that bad at inductive reasoning.</p>
<p>Relatively small or could give me a small feel
Not a large quantity of potatoes (many years of sleep away camp have turned me off)
International feel/diverse
Low on Greek life and parties</p>
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Sorry. I wasn’t aware that it separated the campuses. </p>
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That was a joke. Sorry if that wasn’t clear.</p>
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Wasn’t familiar with that, sorry.</p>
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I consider ~2.5 miles (using Google Maps) to be “walkable,” but I guess that’s a matter of opinion.</p>
<p>My younger S has the ultimate trivial reason. He refuses to go to our State school because he hates the color red. Seriously, that is the only reason.</p>
<p>DD wants: good vegetarian/vegan food with flexibility in the hours;
Not a big school, but urban
Religious studies (preferably Jewish studies with Hebrew, but any religious minor would be OK with her)
The ability to do theater (which she has done semi-professionally since the age of 8) without being a theater major</p>
<p>LOL at the squirrel thing. I cannot convince the child that squirrels are rodents and disease-carrying pests, she still thinks they are “cute.”</p>
<p>Sadly, the final limitation is within a state covered by our HMO. Our contract does not extend to a child away at college unless it’s in one of the ten or so states listed. She has major health issues that make the typical 80/20 student policy something that would be prohibitively expensive. We are also hoping for a west coast city that has a relative living nearby (i.e., Seattle, San Francisco, San Diego). She does not want anywhere with a significant winter although would have considered a couple of the D.C. schools if we can get coverage (the HMO covers Maryland and Virginia, we can’t get a definitive answer about the District).</p>
<p>She could care less about Greek life or sports, but having an active Jewish presence on campus is important to her. And she loved the fact that, at Pitzer, students are committee members on all aspects of the campus, right up to professor hiring, etc. She is active as the only teen representative on committees at our synagogue and would like to keep up that sort of leadership role.</p>
<p>Most important for me, besides the health insurance issue, is that there is significant support for LD and health-challenged kids.</p>
<p>(A Chipotle would be nice!)</p>
<p>Beamom712–doesn’t your 80/20 plan have an out of pocket maximum? Do you have other options? HMO’s and college kids are tricky even under the best circumstances.</p>