Bucknell University Visit Report by ricegal

Visit Activities:

Information Session: Yes - Great information session! Very enthusiastic, friendly, and helpful admissions officer. The presentation was informative and interesting. Better than many I have seen.

Campus Tour: Yes - Campus is beautiful! I didn't seem the dorms, but my son did. He says they are better than average, but not the best he has seen.

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Campus:

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Students are friendly, but I got the impression that it might be a bit cliquesh. Many of the students seem impossibly good-looking and athletic.

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Awesome! The admissions office was very helpful, even gave my son free lunch. We were able to meet with the dean of engineering at short notice and even talk with a professor on the spot.

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Campus is beautiful. Lots of wide open grassy spaces. Red-brick buildings.

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Everything seemed clean and well-maintained.

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Off-Campus:

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Lots of student housing off campus. Neighborhoods seemed safe.

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Lewisburg seemed friendly and very student-centric. Everyone we met was nice from the hotel clerk to waiters.

Campus Visit Notes for Bucknell University

Visit Description:

I loved Bucknell and my son definitely says he is going to apply. He hasn't got a first choice school yet, though. Bucknell seems like the kind of place where, if you feel comfortable with the students there when you visit, you will like going to the school. Everyone there looks happy and comfortable. The administration is a cut above what I have found at other schools. Lewisburg seems to be a very safe college town, unlike some of the dumpy small towns or inner city neighborhoods where some colleges are located. We looked at the computer science and economics departments and took the engineering tour. Computer science seems to be pretty good, although not as good as Carnegie Mellon. They have all the right courses, but the depth of each course is not as great as CMU. The economics department offers a variety of courses.

Hotel/Lodging Recommendations or Comments:

We stayed at All Suites Inn. It was dumpy looking from the outside. The building where the rooms are located is a prefab. However, the room was spacious and clean. Nice to have a kitchen.

Dining/Restaurant Recommendations or Comments:

Everyone recommended that we eat at Bull Run Inn so we did. It was fine.