Accepted Student Day-Are you going?-Why or why not?

pamom59
Thu, 12 Apr 2012 12:34:00 +0000

Just adding to feedback about accepted student day visits.

We attended yesterday and were disappointed in the visit. As others said, the"information session" is not very informational. It consists of two students telling their personal stories about UD which may or may not be relevant to any particular student. The presentation seemed to stress the “campus feel” of UD as the overriding factor (according to their “food pyramid” type graph). Topics that we were more interested in, like quality of academics, class size, advising, etc. were not really mentioned. I mean, we all know that its fun to be a “blue hen” and all, but there is more to college than that. One of the students mentioned that the highlight of her study abroad in Africa was seeing all the cute baby animals…let’s just say, it was not impressive.

Our tour group leader was more informative, but our group of students/parents overall seemed fairly unimpressed/unenthusiastic. The tour took us mostly the same places we had already seen on our first visit for Discovery Day last summer. The difference this time was there were actually students around, and we got to eat lunch in a dining hall. The lunch was good and I give kudos to the UD Creamery Ice Cream! The student body appears to be largely white/middle class- a happy but homogeneous student body.

We took the opportunity to sit in on a lecture class prior to the 11am tour. Unfortunately, this lecture class did not reflect well upon UD as the prof was TERRIBLE and merely read off his powerpoints. Many students in the room were playing video games or on facebook.

The dorm we visited, Harrington, is traditional dorm style with double rooms and hall bathrooms. There is no A/C in the dorms. Floors are coed. There is a large construction site on the East Campus where new dorms are being built. As opposed to other schools we have visited, dorm security at UD is very lax (you just use your swipe card to get in, so you could swipe in any number of guests) and there is no visitor policy or sign-in. Perhaps this reflects the fact that UD is fairly safe…but it still left us feeling that security was lax.

On the plus side, I will say that UD is one of the most beautiful college campuses I have ever seen, and with many flowering trees in bloom the campus showed off well.