<p>Slipper,</p>
<p>Unlike Sybbie's daughter, I felt the same way your poster 'from-another-thread did about both Williams and Amherst (particularly Amherst); I didnt like either of them and scratched them right off my list. As your poster said, "something about it just didn't click with me. But thanks anyway."</p>
<p>I was, however, seriously considering Swarthmore and Yale...even gave a light-passing thought to Brown. </p>
<p>Williams, Amherst, Duke and Northwestern (never even considered NW) went right off my collegiate radar (although, having visited the first three, I could see the appeal, particularly in the case of Williams and Duke beautiful campuses it just didnt click).</p>
<p>My parents were pulling for Columbia (its very close to home) but I told them I would only consider attending its campus well into the future, at my funeral, for instance--something Columbias ghostly campus seemed more appropriate and suitable to at the time...that and a great education of course.</p>