<p>from page 1 … 2011 grad degrees … Masters 520 … PhDs 26 … looks to be masters dominated to me</p>
<p>(whoops … this points back a couple posts … this post is about Clark)</p>
<p>I don’t think Elon splits all tours. I think they only do it at Accepted Student Days, and perhaps at Open Houses. But if you just go on a random day for a general tour, they are usually together. (Parent of an Elon Senior).</p>
<p>Didn’t care for Ole Miss.</p>
<p>Just finished a small college tour with D4- We hit the south and will go back but so far.</p>
<p>College of Charleston, Loved the location, tour and the city. Did not like the girl to guy ratio 65 yo 35 boys. Other than that its a go…
UNC, no too big and didn’t like the mandate of instate students vs. out of state, too high.
Duke, pretentious Admin officer told us about her college experience and all the important and special people she went to class with, was a bit over the top. Had a great tour guide but D didn’t like how spread out the campus was and didn’t like Durham.<br>
UVA, boring info session, think D started to drift off…tour great, good guide liked the campus, she still thinks its a bit too large and out in the middle of nowhere.
William and Mary, Loved it, pretty campus, liked the area around it and the traditional feel.
Overall was a good first trip, she has decided (for now) that she likes a midsize school and would prefer a city but would take a town but does not like sprawling campuses or schools that she perceives to be in the middle of nowhere. In the Northeast now and may take a few trips this week, will let you know any updates.</p>
<p>Good, I’m not the only one who thinks UVA is too big and in the middle of nowhere.</p>
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SecondToGo also liked mid-sized schools … and I agreed with the apeal. One idea for urban mid-sized schools would be to look at the Jesuit schools … most are mid-sized and many are in cities.</p>
<p>My daughter has wanted to go to Oxford since she was 12. In Britain, you can only apply to either Oxford or Cambridge, so we knew she had a choice to make. We went first to Oxford and found the university reps standoffish, arrogant, and dismissive. The attitude was, “apply if you want, but we doubt you are good enough.” It was quite a shock.</p>
<p>We then went to Cambridge and found exactly the opposite: they were welcoming, curious about her interests, open (she got to talk with a prof for a time), and encouraging. There was no sense of arrogance, only excitement and effort to prepare oneself for the multi-step applications process. She was immediately smitten and applied to Cambridge instead of Oxford.</p>
<p>We had a fairly uninspiring tour this week at DH’s alma mater, which is the state flagship. Our tour guide *began * the tour by telling us he was a 5-year business major. It pretty much went downhill from there. </p>
<p>Tour guide was knowledgeable but seemed bored by the entire process and by the group. He talked about football. A lot. We are football fans, especially of this team, but we’re not sending our kids to college so they can attend games. </p>
<p>We left the tour halfway through and headed over to the honors college, which didn’t go much better.</p>
<p>Much to Max’s horror, DD will be applying to his alma mater’s rival.</p>
<p>I went to a conference in Cambridge and stayed in a dorm at Jesus College. It was very cool. How difficult is Cambridge to get into?</p>
<p>We just took a tour of Ithaca College and of course my D did not get the tour with the exceptionally handsome undergrad. It totally effected her appreciation of the school. Sounds ridiculous but it happens. We ended up with a really ditzy girl who honestly was awful. The school is a really good fit for her and she may be able to play tennis there. Since the tour we have been able to convince her to keep an open mind. I plan on taking her back again to see a musical to get a different experience.</p>
<p>There is a “Jesus College”??</p>
<p>Society of Jesuits ^</p>
<p>[Jesus</a> College Cambridge](<a href=“http://www.jesus.cam.ac.uk/]Jesus”>http://www.jesus.cam.ac.uk/)</p>
<p>Not a Jesuit institution.</p>
<p>My D seems to be having the opposite issue - she likes every school she visits. The only parameter she has set so far is that she does not want to look at schools that are isolated. She wants a decent sized town or a city experience. </p>
<p>We visited Northwestern and University of Chicago thinking that she would apply to one or the other. Nope, she really liked them both and wants to keep them on her list. We visited schools with open curriculums and ones with stringent core requirements thinking that we could define our list along those lines. Nope, she wants to apply to Brown as well. At this rate I fear her final list will be endless.</p>
<p>Crossed Santa Clara University off the list. Tour was pretty average, but college just wasn’t a fit. Seemed too much like high school - and DD didn’t like that they downplayed their Catholic affiliation. About 1/2 way thru the tour, we walked by a Pizza My Heart - all of a sudden we were starving and had to bolt out of the tour!</p>
<p>Interesting (meant to say Society of Jesus btw). I know SJ schools here are nicknamed Jesus colleges.</p>
<p>HarvestMoon1, no worries. When my D was looking at schools I used to joke that her top choice was whatever college she had visited last. In the end, she went ED to… drum roll… the last college she visited. She’s a rising senior now and LOVES it.</p>
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<p>Too funny…mine would be the one who DID get the tour with the EHU and decide to apply for that one reason alone. :)</p>
<p>We did 4 tours this summer; U Richmond, Duke, Elon and Furman. D ended up liking Furman and Duke best for now, but none got crossed off entirely.
All 4 were beautiful campuses.
U Richmond had a great cafeteria! We weren’t too impressed with the Richmond area. The tour was good.
Duke had the best info session BY FAR. The woman giving the talk was great; informative and engaging ( they rotate who the speaker are, so YMMV). I thought it interesting that they were the only place that asked for feedback (on a card) on what our tour experience was like. The student tour guide we had was less impressive, but not bad. We would like to have gone in some of the science buildings, but we seemed to do a lot of standing outside and talking ABOUT the buildings. The mailings and the tour guide seemed to put a lot of emphasis on sports which holds no interest for D, so that’s a bit of a turn off, but Duke does offer a lot in the way of research and the sciences so Duke is definitely still on the list.
Elon was another beautiful campus. I really liked the feel of it. The student tour guide was very good, and relaxed, and even took us into the science building that didn’t seem to be on the pre set tour. D said the school felt like a big highschool, and didn’t care for that…I didn’t get that feel, but OK. There doesn’t seem to be much around the school. We didn’t have time to explore much but there seemed to be just a street or two of ‘downtown’ Elon with a few shops right by campus, but not much else around. I think Elon is probably off her list for now. I was actually more impressed with it than I expected to be.
On to Furman…After the tour, D said she could see herself there. That kind of surprised me. You just never know, do you? lol Furman was probably the best blend of LAC, small classes, and strong science that we’ve seen so far. The info session and first tour guide were the worst of the 4 schools. info session just boring and the tour guide talked fast, while facing forward (away from the group) most of the time, so we couldn’t hear much of what she said. Furman has a 2nd part of the tour on golf carts, and that tour guide was better, and it was nice to get the riding tour. Beautiful campus, nothing to speak of right by the campus, but downtown Greenville is very nice and just a few (5-10) minutes drive away. D liked their dorms the best of the 4. The upper classman dorms are very nice, apartment style. The freshman dorm we saw was a sample dorm, that from what the tour guide said wasn’t a very good sample because so many things about it are not like the regular dorms. So, I found that frustrating.
We didn’t get to see the dorm bathrooms on any of the tours…made me wonder what they didn’t want us to see (It was summer, so they weren’t in use). Several things were being renovated/under construction since it was summer. I want to take D back when there are students there, and I bet that campus is absolutely gorgeous in the fall!</p>
<p>K2 eliminated U Del after the visit.
Too sprawling.
Very Run down dorms (forced triple- on tour)
Didn’t like that almost every eatery was junk food.</p>