Art Major - how much do rankings matter?

Awesome! Like I said, I loved and continue to love UCLA. Walking between Royce and Powell is always inspiring for me. Aside from touring the campus, you might consider spending a few hours in Westwood, which is an integral part of UCLA. Maybe have a cookie sandwich at Diddy Reese and see a movie at the Fox or Bruin movie theaters. (These are old-school, ornate theaters where movie premiers are or were often held with very savvy, enthusiastic audiences–it is or was a different experience than seeing a movie at your standard suburban cineplex.) I don’t know if you have In N’ Outs in Maryland, but there’s one in Westwood. I could constantly smell it from my apartment junior year, which did not aid my already poor dietary habits.

Coincidentally, my mountain child will be spending a month at BU this July at its pre-college art program. We’ll see how she likes actually going to school in a city. She’s visited San Francisco and Tokyo many times and has never been wild about either. But I think actually living in a city with (prospective) friends may affect that.

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