<p>You have to cross the border but St. Lawrence is about an hour and a half to Ottawa and two hours to Montreal.</p>
<p>Oldest crossed off all publics except the elite 4: Mich, Uva, Berkeley and UCLA. It was very easy to detect that the bottom 25% at the other publics was a sad bunch. The quality control is lacking when you have to fill each year with several thousand students. The elite students there can shine anywhere, but you still have to share campus with the slackers who crawled in.</p>
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<p>Better watch it, @linden202. Your âoldestâ could end up working for one of those âslackersâ some day.</p>
<p>Are you sure youâre not actually a student yourself whoâs just â â â â â â â â ? </p>
<p>Oh yes, I do detect a â â â â â amongst us. linden202, go back under your bridge.</p>
<p>dm2017, stmarys14, laxripper = linden202. </p>
<p>You guys are good at recognizing the retreads!</p>
<p>Maybe linden is their parent:)</p>
<p>This particular â â â â â isnât exactly Mensa material.</p>
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<p>Absolutely. Iâve had friends and children of friends who have loved SLU. It just wasnât a good fit for my son, who wanted a somewhat more urban environment.</p>
<p>There are several kids from S2âs HS class who attend St. Lawrence and are very happy there. It wouldnât have been the right fit for my son either. Itâs good there are places that appeal to different folks.</p>
<p>Elite 4. Thatâs funny.</p>
<p>Canât believe those comments about the other top publics, nor listing only those four schools. Agree with â â â â â . </p>
<p>Seems like a lot of people had bad experiences at Lehigh.</p>
<p>We had such high hopes for Amherst. We were really disappointed by our visit. The admissions officer who gave the presentation to the group spent much of his time talking about other colleges (Williams in particular) and came across as quite smug. We left with the impression that Amherst had all the qualified applicants it needed and was indifferent about more applying.
Wesleyan: made it sound like it was more selective than HYP.
Yale: the student video that they made us watch with some guy singing about why he chose Yale set the tone which proved too much for us. Also New Haven was a bit too urban.
UPenn: The talk took place in a vast packed auditorium and tours were frantic. The impression we got was Penn was a large impersonal university in heart of a major urban area.</p>
<p>We were also disappointed with our Amherst visit - it was really too bad.</p>
<p>Instead of reading through 312 pages, what did you guys think about UF / UCF?</p>
<p>^^^ Use the search function on the thread.</p>
<p>University of Rochester - </p>
<p>DS LOVED it when he attended a summer program there during HS (Rochester Scholars). He did not get the same warm, fuzzy feeling when he visited (again, on his own) during the school year:</p>
<p>(1) Cab driver from the airport to the college drove him past UR and all the way downtown (twice the distance), then drove him back again (now itâs three times the distance!), and then tried to charge him for the full fare! Ended up ânegotiatingâ (read, threatening him) down to twice the actual fare!</p>
<p>(2) Once on campus, DS went to an academic building to sit in on a class. Asked a professor he met in the hallway where he might find Classroom X. The response? âWhy are you bothering me? If you donât know how to find it yourself, thatâs not my problem! Itâs not even in this building . . .â (Yes, it was.)</p>
<p>The cab incident bothered me more than it bothered him, but the latter incident, combined with a failure to âclickâ with his student host was enough to seal URâs fate.</p>
<p>Weâre deciding whether to visit Amherst or not tomorrow. The fact that they donât accept reservations/registration concerns me some, now I am thinking Conn College may be a better choice for tomorrowâŠ</p>
<p>OHMomof2 Lehigh does not accept reservations either. We thought it was odd but we visited the school twice and it was never an issue. It somehow seems to work. </p>