<p>Can’t help you with Penn, although I had a good Philly Cheese Steak there once.</p>
<p>Felipe is the hangout place indeed. I still missed those super cheap quesadillas!</p>
<p>Alu:</p>
<p>This seems to me like a great college trip. Your S likes a number of colleges, is not wedded to one, but will be motivated to work harder to get accepted in one of those he comes away liking. I would have been sad if he’d come away thinking Harvard or bust, or if he had only one dream college during the whole trip. </p>
<p>So happy travels!</p>
<p>Did not like Amherst - too much like high school. Liked BC campus, but it was Easter Sunday so we couldn’t see much else.</p>
<p>I guess so far it is a good college trip:).</p>
<p>Now at Duke. He is biased against Duke because he doesn’t like their basketball team. Like I said, I find teenage boys a little odd…</p>
<p>Alu:
is your son open to Princeton? did he like it?</p>
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<p>Boys odd? I’ve seen teenage girls reject a school because they didn’t like what the tour guide girl was wearing.</p>
<p>Odd? Mine had a rather lengthy list of schools that are well regarded in his major. To whittle it down he decided that if a school’s football team was victorious on a particular weekend in late September he would apply. This was not as easy as watching ESPN, as some of these schools have such little known football teams he had to really search for their scores!</p>
<p>hahahaha - yes, sports or clothes, which matters more?</p>
<p>Right now it goes like this.</p>
<p>Penn
Princeton
Duke
Harvard
Brown</p>
<p>UMiami is tomorrow.</p>
<p>Can I just say that the algorithm is unusual?</p>
<p>And does anyone know which schools excel at neuroscience? How do a lawyer and a businessperson/critic produce 2 neuroscience majors???</p>
<p>Many schools have excellent GRADUATE Neuroscience programs. Undergrad is a bit rarer. Look here for a list of undergrad neuroscience programs:</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.funfaculty.org/ugradprograms.html[/url]”>http://www.funfaculty.org/ugradprograms.html</a></p>
<p>Take a look @ Brandeis</p>
<p>Thanks for the info.</p>
<p>Expecting this list to go upside down and sideways many times before we are done…</p>
<p>Also expect to add the UCs.</p>
<p>Why no Yale on the list?</p>
<p>Isn’t Hopkins big on neuroscience? Don’t know how it would fill his sport-spectator cup, though. Although he could get into LAX and baseball at Camden Yards.</p>
<p>No Yale because he has enough super-reaches on the list:). And since he’s science-oriented, it seemed like the right one to cut back on. And we really only went to see Harvard because my dad appreciates it…Of course S liked it but who knew? He probably would have liked Yale too.</p>
<p>Hopkins would be good for the study stuff - it’s just hard to find a school that has his preferred unpretentious/highly racially and economically diverse culture and integration into surrounding community and also has extremely intellectual coursework available. And is around 5-10,000 students. Oh yeah and has at least one killer sports team in a sport covered by ESPN.</p>
<p>Luckily he liked UMiami, could see himself here, doing Marine Science, Broadcast Journalism and Music Production.(boys!) And they said he’d be a reasonable candidate for the full scholarship. Good for the old self-esteem.</p>
<p>I guess we have a list now. May add Rice - will visit as my college roomate is conveniently located in Houston:).</p>
<p>And mom must start haunting the cc boards of Penn. Oik. Thanks all for the discussion. Somehow did not want to have this in the open forum.</p>
<p>Is he dead-set against Stanford because it is close to home?
It seems to meet a lot of his other criteria.</p>
<p>Yeah. Stanford is actually perfect for him. Close knit dorms, sports, laid back atmosphere, fantastic marine science AND neuroscience.</p>
<p>But he wants to get out of the Bay Area and see the world.</p>
<p>Can’t blame him. However, I have told him he has to inform his future wife that he will have to be moving back to California so not to get too excited about having her family nearby if she is from elsewhere:).</p>
<p>So we have the mantra in my house - Stanford for grad school - and I cross my fingers.</p>
<p>good luck on the Penn boards – I’ve found them among the snarkiest here, and can’t figure out why. Most of the kids I know who go there are lovely. Still – don’t think it shows well here on CC. And as for the long-suffering Philadelphia sports fans – what can I say?! Enough exposure to Philadelphia sports should have him longing for the west coast! Problem solved.</p>
<p>Hey Alu,
I understand the mantra…I have sent each of my 2 kids to Stanford for a summer program…with the mantra of “4 weeks instead of 4 years!”<br>
I totally agree with the focus on grad school too for refining one’s interests… as opposed to undergrad for across the board knowledge and physical activity and fun also…<br>
It is crazed that a simple “where to go for dinner?” inquiry can quickly evolve into “what exactly is on his list?”<br>
Sorry for contributing to the deep dive… I had read elsewhere that your S has some track stuff going on…which is what is unique about my next one to launch…so, that is why I was curious… thanks for sharing…</p>
<p>not referring to organized pre-frosh tours…Harvard has random tourists wandering around the campus due to it’s fame.</p>
<p>^^It’s true that there are random tourists. There are random tourists all over Boston. But at Harvard it’s the organized tour groups that dominate The Yard, clog up the sidewalks, and snap pictures of real Harvard students on their way to class. And it’s also a lot of those same tourists who complain about all the tourists at Harvard, as though they themselves didn’t count somehow.</p>