<p>Interesting, at least to an old fogey. Few if any on this thread mentioned anything about the quality or types of students they found on a visit, other than the don’t-like-preppies comments. What sold me on what became my alma mater, other than the ridiculously beautiful grounds (UVA), was the quality of the students I met when I visited. This became even truer during my four years. Far and away the greatest part of the experience, and the majority of the real learning, was gained through the good, talented and brilliant people I went to school with. Admittedly that can be hard to glean from a single visit, but it’s interesting that “a place where I’d feel like I didn’t fit in” or “a place that didn’t seem to have many people of my same intellectual level or interests” hasn’t really been mentioned.</p>