<p>Well ALL the dorms at ND are single-gender - and they come with strict parietals if you like that too. To me, it is not very much like the real world.</p>
<p>My S has wanted to move off campus for awhile and finally did, this year, as a senior.</p>
<p>UPenn - Columbia rejects who were obnoxiously pretentious.<br>
UVA - Too âold moneyâ. I donât want to go to school at Tom Buchananâs summer property.</p>
<p>^^^
Funny, but I would not put Columbia above UPenn. Both are really terrific schools, but if you are on the pre-professional path I think you would choose UPenn over Columbia.</p>
<p>^^We had the same reaction to UPENN tooâŠobnoxiously preteniousâŠvery apt description, imo! We crossed off UPENN for S1 because of their âbetter than thouâ attitudes and crossed off Union for S2 because the engineering dept. was too small.</p>
<p>Also - everywhere else obviously tried really hard to be engaging in their info sessions and tours. UPenn was just like, âWeâre UPenn. Iâm wearing a blazer.â.</p>
<p>S1âs school has one dorm for women only and the rest are co-ed by wing or floor. I went to the same college and one dorm went co-ed my freshman year - by wing, with a huge steel door on each floor separating the men and women. Why bother?</p>
<p>Surprised at the comments on UPenn. We had a really great experience and the only one wearing a blazer was my Husband!</p>
<p>Missouri S&T has pretty much been scratched off my list after visiting. It is overwhelmingly male⊠I know itâll be like that in my classes at any other college, but at least the rest of the school will be closer to 50/50. The city of Rolla really wasnât my cup of tea either.</p>
<p>I agree, having grown up in the suburbs 20 minutes west of Penn and spent many a night at Pennâs campus (when I was young) myself, and having a high school senior who spends time on the campus we both find the kids great and for the most part not pretentious. Smart yes, but not usually obnoxious or no more then many 20 somethingâs on any college campus.</p>
<p>I disagree austinareadad. Kids want to live in coed dorms because they like being around students of the opposite sex. Thatâs hormones not political correctness.</p>
<p>Crossed off Boston CollegeâThey were very pretentious and apologized for their Catholic beginnings. I am not Catholic, but I thought that was off-putting. Also said dont bother applying here unless youâre rich. </p>
<p>No to The College of NJâlooked good at first, and many of our friends love it, but when we came to the dorm, it was disgusting. The mattress was thrown half on the bed with a big slash on it, like someone knifed it and the walls looked like they painted over mold. Didnât even try to make it look decent. Plus, the tour guide kept saying stuff like he ended up at TCNJ because he had no other options. Did not sell it at all!</p>
<p>Stockton was a no also. I liked it, but D felt it was too secluded. </p>
<p>Haverfordâfelt very creepy to us like a scene in a horror movie where someone would jump out at us any minute. Bathroom at admissions area was so smelly and disgusting, we left before the tour started. I am sure many people have received a different impression of the school and love the college. The person at the admissions office was very nice.</p>
<p>Liked Rider a lot but a bit too small. Will keep this on the list for other kids.</p>
<p>MillersvilleâThe brochures looked very well done, so we thought we would check it out. When we got there though, it just didnât match up to what we expected. Did not get out of the car.</p>
<p>Was pleasantly surprised at Messiah Collegeâwe only went there because there were so many positive posts here at CC and they had a direct nursing program. (Thanks CC people!) Applied. Accepted. Waiting on 8 other schools.</p>
<p>cakeisgreatâ</p>
<p>Your impressions of BC are correctâthe rest of the college population in Boston is sick of the full-of-themselves attitude of the BC kids.</p>
<p>Re: BC. Our tour guide was excellent, but yesâstressed the school was not religious at all. They also made it very clear that FA was almost non-existent, and so only the rich need apply. We sensed a disproportionate emphasis on football over all else, which we didnât like. Finally, the BC coach of my Dâs sport never responded to her e-mails, and it was not because of Dâs ability either. BC and UNC-CH were the only coaches who did not respond, and were lower-ranked in the sport than schools that did answer. (UNC-CH suffered from the same problem of over-emphasis, only for basketball not football. Big turn-off)</p>
<p>I had to laugh when I read, âHaverfordâfelt very creepy to us like a scene in a horror movie where someone would jump out at us any minute. Bathroom at admissions area was so smelly and disgusting, we left before the tour started.â </p>
<p>Really? You drove there and just because the bathroom was smelly, you left before the tour even started? Then, how did you know it felt creepy if you didnât even take the tour? </p>
<p>There are schools that donât âfeelâ right to some people the minute they arrive on campus. But I still think that if a family took the time and money to look at the school, then they should at least take the tour. </p>
<p>I wouldnât judge a college by the admissions building or even its bathrooms because it may be the only time you would ever have to walk into that building again.</p>
<p>Yes, if there is a smelly bathroom outside the admissions office, maybe you should judge that parent who just came out of it before you discredit the whole college. </p>
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<p>Boston College says it meets 100% of the need of all US students. I donât know if they are need aware or not in admissions. As of 3 years ago, I didnât have my son look at it because they had an extremely restrictive policy in accepting AP credits.</p>
<p>So itâs a reflection on Haverford that some nervous kid did a #2 in the bathroom before his interview? </p>
<p>This thread is about impressions so obviously, your mileage may vary, but Haverford is a wonderful school and in a completely different league from others mentioned in the same post.</p>
<p>Too funny about the bathroom.</p>
<p>BC is known in these parts as being expensive and not terribly generous with financial aid. They may claim to meet 100% need but itâs their definition. My son really liked BC but there were several things - in addition to FA - that were offputting. The meal plan is pay as you go so I could well see my S running out of food in March. When I asked about it, the tour guide laughed and said âOh - he just needs to find a girlfriend and then he can eat her foodâ - really? Who says that in this day and age??? Apparently BC. I also didnât like the fact that most freshmen live at the law school campus which is 1-1/2 miles away and that they donât guarantee housing for four years.</p>
<p>OddâŠthe only current BC student I know personally is from a devout Catholic family and went there because it gave her the best fin aid package. (Kid is white, first generation American, not an athlete.)</p>
<p>Odd, because they made a point of communicating about limited financial assistance in the info. session. </p>
<p>Georgetown did not emphasize it, but they also did not keep quiet about the fact that their FA would likely be quite a bit less than that offered by the Ivies and other peer schools.</p>
<p>UmmmâŠfirst, this whole thread is filled with people who toured and did not like one âsillyâ thing about the college.</p>
<p>SecondâŠI summarized. We felt is was creepy because we drove around the campus before arriving and did not like the grounds, the new building design, the old buildings, the amount or lack of people on campus/cars, the very country feel, and more. Before the tour, we went into the store (or whatever it was), listened to conversation between student and teacher, looked around the admissions building, not just the bathroom.</p>
<p>The bathroom was the last deciding factor. And frankly, when you tour 15 other schools who put a lot of $$ into their admissions office building to be presentable, that told us a lot about the school. </p>
<p>It all added up to a creepy feeling for us. OhâŠand for the other family who came and we never metâŠthey left too.</p>
<p>I also prefaced it by saying other people could like itâŠit was just our impression. GeezâŠ</p>
<p>Is that a better description?</p>