Campus Ivy Tours

esobay
Thu, 20 Jan 2011 11:25:00 +0000

Back in the day (D is a jr at Dart), we did almost that exact tour. Didn’t actually do Dart that trip, but did Brown Princeton, UPenn, Columbia, Yale, Harvard and … seeems like one more that I can’t pull up.

We flew into NYC, did Columbia, slept, then rented a car. Driving, if you are from the west coast where milage isn’t intimidating was certainly an option. As I recall (it is all somewhat of a blur) we headed east and then looped back and left from Boston. We did 2 tours some days but don’t recall how they stacked up. I didn’t go ON the tours usually, D brought a friend and they went together. I think that works. By then, we had done enough colleges (and I frequented cc enough!!) to not have many “admission” questions that a parent usually asked anyway.

It was really interesting to me to see the campuses; I usually hung out at the library and / or the student centers. Got a real feel for the “vibe” which wasn’t the same vibe as D felt, but was interesting to see the huge differences.

Columbia had the BEST COFFEE!