Moved Down: UVA (didn’t like the tour guide or the “pretentious vibe”) UNC Chapel Hill (“too many hills”), University of South Carolina (he was looking for a college town and this was more of a big city. It was also VERY hot the day we toured and he just wasn’t feeling it); Clemson (liked the campus and the cool lake but the town was just like a block or two and that’s it and he felt that it was very much in the middle of nowhere);
Moved Up: William and Mary (beautiful campus, fun tour guide and he loved hearing about all the cool campus traditions and incredible study abroad); Auburn (loved the campus, the dorms, the people, the town, really just everything; Virginia Tech (loved the campus. we didn’t have an official tour, but we strolled around and he ended up getting into a football game with some students on the green. things like that really impact your overall impression)