<p>GoMiami - Chapel Hill itself is notoriously liberal. The student body is like many schools - failrly diverse, as is NC. I think it is a mistake for any tour guide to be divisive - they may represent the school, but not the personal politics of the entire student body.</p>
<p>As a twin my family visited so many schools because my brother and I have vastly different interests. My bro prefers science and math while I am english history. I tried to stay with schools near or in cities while my brother really did not care. I wanted a medium size school and my brother was unsure so he saw a wide variety of schools.</p>
<p>Cornell- the minute I heard dairy I ran in the opposite direction. Being a city with some internships and cultural opportunities I could not stand the town. Plus I hate the fact that it is so big, most colleges I want to go to need to be big enough that there is room to breathe but not so big that it takes a shuttle to get to class. What happens if you oversleep? Oddly enough, my bro (twin) loved the school and got accepted ED. Heâs just going to have to visit me!</p>
<p>Dartmouth- the town was way too small and the school seem to frat boyish. Was not my scene. Plus they mentioned skiing, something that made me run. Parents tried to convince me that I liked it by driving around and pointing to all the trees. As a result I hated it even more. My brother did not mind it though.</p>
<p>Tufts- the rape steps. The fact that someone thought of that disturbs me in so many ways. Plus it was too far removed from Boston. My parents thought the guy who ran the info session was a puppet. I also ran into three kids from my school (Tufts is a mildly pop college for my school) and I realized that I want to be able to start anew rather than keep seeing all these kids my old high school.</p>
<p>Swathmore- though I appreciate the concept of the schools its size and facilities were unimpressive.</p>
<p>Haverford- I felt I was at a boarding school rather than a college. </p>
<p>Bryn Mawr- although we only drove through, I immediately disliked the urban location.</p>
<p>Mt. Holyoke- spent a weekend there and the female environment was radically different from what I expected. The town was also a little too small though there were nearby campuses. It made me realize that I would rather be in a city with only a few other colleges than in a town with so many.</p>
<p>Johns Hopkins- the buildings seemed oddly creepy. Plus they lacked character completely.
Baltimore however was a surprisingly lively clean, safe area where I stayed.</p>
<p>ladyjane, you listed 8 colleges that you hatedâŠ</p>
<p>I am curious, have you liked any so far?</p>
<p>perhaps ladyjane is just following the title of the thread: colleges she crossed off the list after visiting. The ones that stayed on her list wouldnât be mentioned.</p>
<p>what are tuftsâ rape steps?</p>
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<p>From what I can tell after reading through the comments this is just an urban legend.</p>
<p>after seeing those 8 schools fall off her list, i too was curious about where ladyjane might apply. i looked up her history and read that she was accepted to uchicago EA. given her criteria, that school makes sense.</p>
<p>My son and I visited the following schools:</p>
<p>Southwestern University - He liked it alot. I did too. Very nice and homey. Loved the location too. Small classes! 
SMU - He loved it. He told me it was a perfect fit. I totally agree.
Laurence - It was just okay. I didnât like it at all. The campus is part of a town and it isnât a campus.
College of Wooster - We loved it. However, my son thought it may be too small for him.
Stonehill - I liked it very much but my son didnât like it at all. He didnât feel comfortable with the other students there.<br>
University of Richmond - Too big and spread out. We didnât like it.
Denison - My son thought it looked like Hogwarts. We both liked it very much.
Dickinson - My son loved it.<br>
Brown - We did not like it because it was too close to the city and it was crowded. The buildings were on top of each other. Not a campus.
Wheaton - He crossed this one off. My son had an interview and it was very impersonal and rushed. My son did not fit in with the other students there.
Middleburry - It is a very pretty campus and loves the rural area. It is absolutely breath taking and peaceful. However, my son thought it was too small.</p>
<p>I forgot these:</p>
<p>Harvard - My son did not like it. I didnât either. I like schools that have a campuse like Princeton or Notre Dame, which isnât part of the city.
MIT - My son did not like this either because it wasnât a campus.</p>
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<p>OMG, this post had me laughing hard! It took me back to a small LAC I visited in MD with my son (now graduating from Tulane this May). We had visited GWU, which he liked very much, but I had convinced him to visit this school since they offered significant merit aid and it wasnât that far from DC. It was seemingly in the middle of nowhere - when we got there we decided to eat lunch at a very odd pizza place that seemed to be populated by unemployed middle aged men. When we got to campus, everything seemed so small, old and creaky. Our tour guide was most proud of the cafeteria building, which made my son visibly blanch (my husband is a chef and my son grew up eating pretty well) when he smelled the food and saw the ladies in hair nets, just like his HS cafeteria. The dorm rooms were minuscule and everything seemed so old and musty smelling, from the admin building to the classrooms. We drove away, looked at each other and burst into laughter. I honestly do not even remember the name of the school!</p>
<p>ladyjane- I wouldnât describe Bryn Mawr as urban. Itâs in an upscale suburb. UChicago is certainly more urban. Did you mean SUBurban?</p>
<p>So because I have just finished my Sunday night glass of wine (oops, just had to edit, I thought it was Saturday - see what one glass does?), I will chime in and tell you about my D (not the guitarist, his sister) and our visits last summer. She did like many schools, but a few she did not:</p>
<p>Duke - overall too big for her, but her whole impression was not helped by the admissions rep describing the three best things about Duke and one of them being âtentingâ (camping out for Bball tickets)⊠she said, why would I want to sleep outside just to watch other athletes, is this really a top three thing about Duke? What about the rest of the student body and all the things we have to offer the school? Are we less important?</p>
<p>Also the father who kept passing gas in front of us on the walking tour was ⊠well, unbelievable. She heard the first one and she whispered to me, I thought she was hearing things, but then, loud as day, he produced two more fine ones. We stopped in our tracks and the folks in back of us piled into us, like a movie. We still laugh everytime we think about it (we didnât hold that particular thing against Duke, however)!</p>
<p>Swarthmore â ugh, she killed me on this one. I loved it, she couldâve gotten an athletic âtipâ but she doesnât wasnât feeling it. Clearly the athletic facilities arenât Swarthmoreâs strength, but everything else about it I though was perfect! She loves her sports though, so it was off the list.</p>
<p>Williams â âget me out of these cow pastures!â </p>
<p>Cornell (my alma mater) - too big for her. She didnât want to have to catch a shuttle bus to get to class (although I didnât think that was necessary, but for an athlete she is pretty lazy about walking places).</p>
<p>Johns Hopkins - she liked it overall, but the 1000+ students in the info session was pretty overwhelming. The grad student was murdered there the night we left last summer, just blocks from where we stayed. Also the coach was not nice.</p>
<p>Hamilton - too small physically, uninteresting town (everything was closed) too far from anything interesting. She liked Colgate a lot (same remoteness issue), though, so not sure what the real reason was⊠maybe the bad interview?</p>
<p>She also couldnât even look at any school in Vermont because everytime we vacationed there over the years (we are skiiers, and have family there, so we were there at least 10-12 times while she was growing up), she got really sick. We have determined that she is allergic to Vermont.</p>
<p>Daughter thought the Georgetown campus was completely unappealing. We both thought Brandeis was nice.</p>
<p>My D found Rice too perfect looking. Actually so did I, lol. It unnerved us both.</p>
<p>Is there any college NOT mentioned in this thread?</p>
<p>RPI? Smith? Wellesley? Yale? Cornell?</p>
<p>^All mentioned as schools that at least one person hated upon first sight. :)</p>
<p>Aw man! Didnât see those posts!</p>
<p>Hopefully I donât feel the same way, those are my top five :)</p>
<p>This is a very entertaining thread
S hated Wesleyan immediately upon sight. No reason he could give, just hated it. He liked Amherst, but said it looked too much like his boarding school (not that thatâs a bad thing, but he wanted something different.)</p>
<p>CPUscientist3000, itâs like dating, or househunting, or your favorite book/movie/album/song/tv show. Thereâs always someone out there who hates something you love. Makes no difference, as long as youâre happy.</p>