<p>I just wanted to know which college you didn't like, whether it was from books, actually going there, etc...</p>
<p>for me its Harvard. For some reason, it seems like only snobbish and rich people go there. But dont get me wrong, its an AMAZING university, but i dont think i would want to go there...</p>
<p>northwestern, i just... dont like it at ALL. and they are named the wildcats... along with a billion other schools. i also thought their essays topics were annoying and uninspiring.</p>
<p>Of the hundreds (literally) of universities I visited, there are two I didn't like. It had nothing to do with academics (both are amazing academically), or their students (both have very friendly students) or even their campuses (both have gorgeous campuses). It hads to do with the setting/location. Yale and Dartmouth simply don't do it for me.</p>
<p>The University of Michigan and Cornell University!</p>
<p>KK, those are my two schools! LOL I personally didn't love Cornell either...but why didn't you like Michigan?</p>
<p>LOL That post looks suspiciously like a troll against you Alexandre.</p>
<p>And you are just loving it aren't you...you Buckeye lover you! LOL</p>
<p>"northwestern, i just... dont like it at ALL"</p>
<p>-Lol, I really don't have anything against Michigan, other then that a rival in the Big 10 to Northwestern. Cornell just did not impress me, in fact, I found it rather depressing. I also found this at the University of Chicago.</p>
<p>Boston University</p>
<p>It doesn't even have a campus...it's a bunch of buildings! Ugh, no thanks.</p>
<p>KK, you are confusing Alexandre with Alex3187. I love Northwestern. Not as much as Michigan, but it is an awesome school.</p>
<p>I agree about Cornell.</p>
<p>Ah, indeed I am. Silly me :)</p>
<p>I don't really like NYU, Gtown and ND. </p>
<ul>
<li>NYU because they don't have a campus at all, just a bunch of randomly scattered buildings with purple flags. </li>
<li>Gtown just depressed me, the students seemed to be depressed about ivy league rejections.</li>
<li>ND because it is too rural, the academics are way overrated, and the people just seemed slimmy.</li>
</ul>
<p>NYU (too much a part of the city for me) and American U (just plain ugly and depressing)</p>
<p>The worst experience we had was at Tufts. We initially had difficulties getting through to set up our info session/tour and were relying on the website directions to find our way. We took the T from Boston College, which required a transfer, and were practically racewalking through town to arrive on time. We noted the beautiful campus, fine athletic fields, lovely setting, etc., and were incubating a positive feel for the place as we sped up a pretty tough hill to get to the designated entrance - only to find it gated and padlocked. No signs, no alternate directions, just a big old lock on a wrought iron gate. The map I'd printed out from the website indicated there was another entry way a bit farther on - also gated and padlocked. We then noticed the extensive scaffolding in the area and the major construction project going on just beyond the gates.</p>
<p>By this time we were disoriented and had only about 3 minutes to find the admissions office. My d cannot arrive late for anything - she's just made that way - and decided that it was pointless to continue wandering around a school she was merely wondering about. On our rather dispirited walk back to the T station, she observed that it's hard to miss the symbolic significance of a locked gate. Tufts was apparently just not meant to be for her.</p>
<p>A sign giving alternate directions, a word of caution from the admissions person who scheduled the tour, a note on the website - all these would have been nice.</p>
<p>I didn't have a really good experience when I went to tour UVA. Of course, it could've been because it was pouring rain and we'd already looked at another school that day, but I was just not impressed. The admissions guy just rambled on and on and the campus just felt big...there wasn't anything about it that really struck me as "special."</p>
<p>I didnt like MIT, Johns Hopkins, or the University of Chicago. They felt so insitutional to me. At Chicago I wanted to leave the tour. On the opposite side, I LOVED Yale and Dartmouth (my school) because they felt so academic and community oriented. I also really liked UNC, Brown, Vassar, and Stanford.</p>
<p>The Claremont Colleges are terrible in my opinion. There are 7 schools in an area about 10 feet by 10 feet. There are only about 5 students and they all look the same. The campus doesnt look like a college campus. It looks like a wealthy neighborhood. Many of the buildings are actually converted houses. I have been to that campus about 50 times and there is literally nothing to do there. I would go crazy and die of boredom if I had to be there a few years. Many people like it though and there is nothing wrong with that. </p>
<p>Caltech is also a pretty boring place. The student body seems to be mostly men in their 30s. The bookstore is the size of a shack and has only about 50 different books to choose from. Pasadena is a really nice city though so Caltech is not really that bad. Also, nearby Pasadena City College makes the place a little better. Again, for some people, this is the ideal place to study and there is nothing wrong with that.</p>
<p>When we toured with our D, the worst was Tufts. Our cute female tour guide got sick in the middle of the tour and disappeared into the bathroom. She was unable to continue so we were all left to our own devices. My D reminds me that it was also in the middle of a record heat wave in Boston (July 2002). Lovely day!</p>
<p>Funny, the first time I went to Tufts was during that horrendous snowstorm two years ago. The day before was the first time they had closed in...years, if at all, as I remember it. Still, I loved it. Was my top choice until we got to Cornell, which I instantly fell in love with and now quite happily attend.</p>
<p>What didnt you people like about Cornell?
As for the worst, I personally couldnt stand Bucknell or Yale. They just had these feelings that I couldnt shake...almost like I was uninvited. Penn also had a bit of a "I'm-Too-Cool-For-You" attitude when I went. It wasnt that bad in that I didnt want to apply, though enough to place it lower on my list.</p>
<p>I hated Princeton with a passion. Loved Brown and am loving it as a student!</p>