Honors weekend in March

Dungareedoll
Tue, 22 Mar 2011 12:41:21 +0000

Wow! I would have thought that this post would be buzzing with everyone’s stories from this past weekend.

We took our S to the honors weekend and it was just great!!! We arrived on Saturday and went downtown to show my husband around (he didn’t come the first time). We also rented a car so we could really check out the surrounding neighborhoods etc. Magazine street is precious. Its reminded my of a beach resort town that you might see in the north east. We checked out the Boot, The Palms, (figured we should see where our s might be spending some of his weekend nights.) they were pretty typical college bars. The area surrounding the school is beautiful and since safety was a huge factor, having a car made it easy to really see that its as safe as one can be at any given time in life. It was no surprise to us that the average price of real estate of $1 million in the area. As a matter of fact, its quite apparent driving around. We drove to the Fly thats beautiful, we checked out the resturants on Carrollton (ie. Camelia’s and we ate at O’Henry’s - pretty good)
As for the campus and the whole program I give it a perfect 10+. The students were all great. My S was hosted by a boy in Wall who was fantastic and even met us on Saturday evening for dinner. He told us everything about the school. We took advantage of all the seminar, luncheons etc and every professor, dean and counselor were absolutely amazing. The business school is wonderful. We loved everything that offer and the overall curriculum at Tulane is second to none. Its truly the only schoo that we visited that my S can switch from Business, to Premed, to Engineer, to accounting. The options are great, especially if your child is undecided or debating between 2 or more paths.

We left feeling really good about Tulane. As for the dorms, we actually liked Butler a lot. It was quiet but not nerdy.

Lastly, I want to say that I was extremely impressed by the general studen poplulation. Not only were the kids pleasant at all times and courteous but I loved the way they dressed. I would say 99% of the females on the campus were all in beautiful sun dresses and strappy sandals. The other 1% were in jogging shorts. The boys were also very clean cut looking. I didn’t one girl that had her chest hanging out of her shirt or shorts that were too short. It was really nice to see that everyone looked so presentable. In this day and age, as a parent, I appreciate when young people respect themselves enough to take of their outward appearance.

Again this was a perfect weekend… the weather was nice too…