Oh okay @musiclover131 I just looked and there are 13 4-year campuses and 13 2-year colleges in the UW system.
Wow… That’s impressive! Illinois is boring. We only have 3 
@GrandBudapest I know SO MANY Rhodes alumni!
Wow you guys make me feel lucky for living in New Jersey where I can pretty much take a day/weekend trip to many northeast schools. A few weekends ago for President’s day I went up to Boston and visited Tufts, Boston College and Northeastern (love love LOVE Northeastern way more than I thought I would), and the next weekend I went back to Boston for a school thing and saw Harvard, which definitely made me want to apply there although I have 0% chance of getting in… but I got to sit in on a chem class and talk to a bunch of the students since I was there for Harvard Model Congress and the campus is just beautiful. I also went to California this past summer on vacation and saw UC Berkeley and Stanford, both of which I love. I also took day trips to Bucknell, Barnards and a few others, so I guess I am lucky I live so close to them.
Has anyone here been to Washington University in St. Louis? I’ve fallen in love with the school online and now I’m DYING to visit but it’s way too far to go to just see one college.
@ke3299 so jealous of you! I reaaaaly want to go to NEU, but my parents are like “too far away, never heard of it, you’ll never get a job, blah blah blah.”
There are five colleges in a 40 mile radius of me, and all of them suck! Once in Chicago, they’re better, but the ones in my suburbs aren’t really good.
Personally, I hate the Midwest. I want to leave. But WashU is amazing, breathtaking. Visit it, if you get a chance
@eyrar99 haha that’s insane!
@desideratum I discovered the MIT admissions blogs a few years ago and I’ve been obsessed with MIT ever since, so I was really happy when I got their mailing because it just reminded me of how much I want to go there! Also you guys should all binge read the blogs ASAP
I loved that MIT mail!! It’s honestly the first college mail I’ve received that’s actually made me want to go to that school. No boring, trite descriptions of my academic achievements and the profound learning environments the college can offer, but rather an amazing representation of MIT’s awesome culture.
Why oh why does college mail mean nothing? MIT is slowly passing Stanford as my dream school. This is not good.
Btw, did y’all hear that Stanford’s regular decision admission rate dropped to 3% this year? (Overall being 4.7%) That’s just absolutely ridiculous.
@neoking Somehow four people from my school got in this year.
Ahh Stanford’s dropping admissions rate makes me so nervous about next year It’s been my dream school since I was 8, so I know thar a rejection is going to hurt a lot (even though I know that there’s a 95% chance my decision will end up a rejection).
Seriously, though: Stanford is beautiful and all the students are wonderfully intelligent and it has good weather and it’s so amazing <333
@musiclover131 you should so visit NEU if you can, Boston is a great city and there are honestly so many colleges and things to see. Also, because of their co op program, which is half the reason I love the school, they have an amazing rate at getting people jobs right after they graduate because they already have their own connections which I think is really cool and the school is so nice, and they have underground tunnels so you don’t have to walk in the cold
@neoking I KNOW. That’s crazy! Twenty-six people from my school applied and one got in. Jesus…
@KE3299 that’s why I want to go so badly!! Lol I’m probably going to end up visiting Boston while I’m in college and just tour Tufts, BU, BC, NEU, etc. while I’m there 
I live in the Southeast with very few good colleges nearby, so my college trips have been super limited. Which is why I support the idea of all of us giving visit reports on this thread if we want. I’m going to visit Rice in a few weeks, so I’ll definitely share.
@KE3299 What did you think of Tufts? It is one of my favorite schools, but I know I won’t be able to visit before applying.
I’ve visited UNC-CH, NC state, JMU, Lehigh, and UCONN if anybody wants to know what any of those colleges are like.
I’ve visited Hopkins, Carnegie Mellon, UMD, and Stevens tech so far if anyone wants a visit report I’ll be happy to share. I’m also going to visit BU, Northeastern, and MIT over break.
AHH. Have fun, everyone visiting schools!
Sigh. I dunno, I’ve talked to people who have gone to Stanford for undergrad and many of them said that the opportunities/professors cater more to graduate students than anything else.
@desideratum Your comments on CC are always so sweet and optimistic! 
@iamnotironman tell me about BU and NEU! Satisfy my unhealthy obsession
I’ve visited Northwestern, UChicago, Universify of Illinois, and I’m seeing Miami Ohio and Indiana U this week
@MissRB0021 I’d love to hear about UNC-CH!
@iamnotironman I’m really interested in Hopkins, but haven’t heard great things. Did you get to visit while classes were in session? What did you think?
@musiclover32 Is UChicago as quirky as they claim to be? I’m sure we’ve all gotten tons of mailings from them, but I wonder if those are actually accurate. Thoughts?
Sorry for asking so many questions guys! But this seems to be the fun part of the process, exploring schools. Eventually we’ll have to actually make decisions…