<p>@soozievt, I may actually take you up on your offer to put me in touch with your D; I’ll be finishing up my last year at Tufts, which is but a few T stops away!</p>
<p>Also, there are various types of vertical studios, but the general premise is to get together all students (whether it be arch. students from all years, or arch., landscape, and urban) and collab/compete with one another in a studio option.</p>
<p>@yulin, it’s incredibly hard to generate a blanket statement for any given school. To say that, say that Auburn U is more concerned about sustainability or design/build issues than…aesthetic or technical ones would be far from the truth. To be honest, most universities have somewhat similar doctrines.</p>