<p>“William & Mary-Is this a senior citizen hot spot or what.”</p>
<p>actually the town is sort of a nice retirement spot - history, relatively cheap RE, not too far from big cities, slightly milder climate than the NE corridor, plus, well, W&M. </p>
<p>I dont think that bothers the students much though.</p>
<p>@ Gwen Fairfax - Absolutely not! Just a different opinion. BBDad brings good points as well. If your students steps on campus and gets a feeling, they don’t like it, that’s hard to shake and usually not worth it to try to convince them otherwise. There are too many good schools!</p>
<p>not if you’re instate 
remember W&M is public. DD wanted a small school (IE like W&M) It didn’t have the fields she wanted - if it had, we would have needed VERY solid reasons to pass it up. :)</p>
<p>@ BBDad - Totally agree on that point. As I said, it was not on S2s list because it didn’t have his intended major. He had to go OOS for a safety because of major (he didn’t mind a bigger school for a match), but that’s a different thread. ;)</p>
<p>Smith - hideous and just pales in comparison to Amherst College and Mount Holyoke, both also in the area
SUNY Stony Brook - huge but essentially a concrete jungle, very disorganized orientation too</p>
<p>Dont mind me blue - W&M is still on my mind. DD comes home from gap year and starts RPI in the fall. I fervently pray Arch goes well. If it doesnt (which happens for a certain number of archies), I fervently pray she decides to stay at RPI and do Civil E or Comp Sci. If, heaven help us, she decides to switch to liberal arts and to leave RPI, W&M would probably then become choice number 1, or close to it.</p>
<p>The whole point of this thread (at least in the beginning) was that our kids often had what seemed to us very silly or idiosyncratic reasons for hating a place. My kid wouldn’t have gotten out of the car for GW if he’d known how much it was like NYU. (And no a satellite campus doesn’t count - in fact that was almost worse.)</p>
<p>My son rejected W&M on the basis of the clothing and haircuts of the kids on the website.</p>
<p>I was driving with my son through a great college campus that is in my city. I asked him to look around and tell me if he wanted to schedule a visit.</p>
<p>He simply said “Too close.”</p>
<p>End of conversation.</p>
<p>Hi Gwen! :)</p>
<p>Valid question you have, but I think I said that I have the nephew that’s a senior at Vanderbilt right now. He loves it! :)</p>
<p>Ahhhh, thank you! :0 Guess I should read more carefully!</p>
<p>We all disliked Wesleyan. They encouraged the parents to be with a different tourguide then the perspective student. Had we all been together, we would have left. Our tourguide was very full of herself. One of the perspective students, who seemed like a geek, surprised us by asking if the rolling hill was where everyone “relaxed with a joint in the later afternoon”. Couldn’t wait to leave.</p>
<p>NJIT – rubbed him the wrong way right from the outset. Students seemed unenthusiastic, staff acted overly impressed by him having taken a few different intro programming classes, and the way the CS and IT departments were set up would have made it difficult for him to pursue a CS degree with an emphasis (minor/concentration/dual major whatever) in game design. We had gone for an open house day, and left after about 20 minutes of visiting the honors college table and the CS/IS table. It just felt wrong all the way.</p>
<p>The only other school S eliminated after visiting was Daniel Webster – too small and a lower academic caliber than he was looking for.</p>
<p>So what’s a ■■■■■ and why was I called one and suggested to be ignored? I’m new and made my first post and was I surprised actually hurt. I read almost this whole link and found it humorous in this new and overwhelming process of sending our firstborn off to college. No one in our family has attended college before. I thought the point was to state the often surprising reasons kids took colleges off their lists after visiting even if their parents didn’t agree. I loved Vandy and think very highly of it. I would have loved my D to go there if she was accepted. But maybe it was too intimidating for my midwest kid who goes to a small public high school where most of the grads go to CC or at best the state flagship. Maybe we were reaching too high for a kid with tippy top stats. NMF, val, otherwise super sweet kid till the college visits started. Frankly I had never heard of Vandy or Tulane and couldn’t name more than 2 or 3 ives until last July when we started trying to figure this out. So thanks to those who defended me and please what is a ■■■■■? Is it a midwest mom trying her best to help her first born with an amazing intellect find a great education? All I can say is if parents treat each other like this, maybe my D instincts are right. Maybe being admitted isn’t enough after all.</p>
<p>Hi mommidwest:</p>
<p>I called you a ■■■■■. If you are a real mom, then I offer you a humble apology. Many times you will see on various threads people who have 1 post, who have made up names just to intimidate, antagonize or make fun of other people who are real posters.</p>
<p>If this is not you, then again my apologies. After being on this forum for several months, I have become a bit jaded and watched some “■■■■■■” say some “off the wall” things. So I tend to be a bit cautious around people who are posting for the 1st time…to figure out if they are “real” or a ■■■■■!</p>
<p>Welcome to cc and again thanks for posting your viewpoints.</p>
<p>I don’t think mommidwest is a ■■■■■. Welcome! I’m sorry your D didn’t like Vandy. It is an awesome school. My D is a grad student there.<br>
My D reacted very negatively to Lawrence based largely on the Green Bay airport.</p>
<p>Thanks for the apology. To be fair my D gets really car sick and was taking drammamine which makes her groggy and grumpy. It was a really long drive we went to Vandy on the way back after driving all the way to Tulane. In hindsight, Vandy, Tulane and William & Mary were my ideas from the college guidebook I bought not hers. Lesson learned. As for the TB test, I personally thought it was a very unique response only a 17 year old would think of. Q Why did you choose your college over another? Real answer: It gave me a scholarship, had my major, and required no TB test because I’m afraid of needles. (She did have the menningitis shot.)</p>
<p>Hi mommidwest. I LOVED your post. Thought it was very funny and perfect for this forum! I was actually surprised that chocchipcookie called you a ■■■■■. And, shame on me, I didn’t speak up in your defense because I thought I must have been too stupid to read between the lines to know that you’re really a ■■■■■! Glad you’re here. Welcome to CC. It is true that ■■■■■■ often strike on their first post – they make up a screen name and then post something ridiculous to see if they can snag people into arguing or showing some kind of shock. YOUR post didn’t seem ■■■■■-like at all to me. It seemed amusing and funny. Teenagers! You’re right!!</p>
<p>mommidwest–welcome to CC! I’ve been called a ■■■■■, too, because I wrote something that someone found hard to believe (true though it was). At the time I had had hundreds of posts and someone came to my defense.</p>
<p>D crossed Kenyon off her list after seeing cigarette butts all over the ground. Also, the tour guide kept stepping into puddles (walking backwards) because some of the walkways were not concrete.</p>
<p>boomer22-my d also hates cigarettes and crossed SUNY Fredonia off the list because there were so many students smoking everywhere. She liked the school otherwise.</p>