Santa Clara University Visit Report by shoot4moon

Visit Activities:

Information Session: Yes - We attended the student panel, but not the info session due to plane arrival time. Students were clearly enthusiastic and engaged. Very easily answered every question. Clearly loved their school.

Campus Tour: Yes - Excellent tour of campus - every question asked was answered thoroughly and positively. Facilities beautiful and technologically advanced. The most beautiful campus we have visited to date.

Classroom Visit: Yes - Class not in session, but room beautiful and wired throughout. Guide said this was a typical room.

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Campus:

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Lots of SCU tshirts, etc. Every student smiling and greeting one another. Asked random person in parking lot "do you like this school?" Eyes widened - ohhhhh yeaaaaahhh...

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Everyone smiled at our tour group everywhere we went. General feeling of happiness pervaded.

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Incredibly beautiful. The library was jaw droppingly advanced - almost all books stored out of view and delivered by crane to the desk - great system.

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Beautiful and immaculate. Lots of effort clearly placed in maintaining all surroundings.

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Not able to see - all dorms are only accessible by students who live there.

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Police dept across street - blue lights all over - students laughed when they talked about crime. Santa Clara extremely safe.

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I can't imagine a more beautiful campus or a better spot to go to school.

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Off-Campus:

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Immediate area appeared to be a safe suburban area -

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Close to San Jose Airport - great for coming to school from other areas. Easy train ride to San Francisco -

Campus Visit Notes for Santa Clara University

Visit Description:

Everyone we have talked to about this school, both former students, people who live in the area, etc get misty eyed when they talk about it. Amazing school - some examples:
1. The library appears to carry NO books when you first walk in - most are housed upstairs and requested by internet, where a crane delivers them to the desk. The entire space is pods of computers and printers as well as rooms for study groups that can be videotaped and streamed to others who were unable to attend.
2. The campus requires three courses of theology (30 choices - most popular are theology of death and theology of marraige - how fascinating!) as well as a course of ethics directly related to your discipline. Whatever you study, you do a course of case studies where you discuss the ethics of choices directly related to your profession/interest.
3. The athletic facility is awesome and heavily used by a wide variety of teams at a variety of levels - didn't even smell like sweat!
3. The campus "chapel" is an original mission - beautiful beyond description. Tour guide told us there is a four year wait to get married there.
4. The career center has five full time people helping SCU students find internships and jobs, both locally and in other cities. Lots of discussion about how networked this center is to other colleges, etc.

We started the visit with my daughter saying this was her last choice of our schools to visit, and ended with it being bumped up to her all around favorite on her entire list of possibilities.

Hotel/Lodging Recommendations or Comments:

We headed straight to St. Mary's in Moraga - only stopped for fast food!

Other Comments (Transportation, local attractions, parking, etc.):

Close to San Jose airport - 7 minutes.