How was Scholars Day???

eadad
Wed, 29 Mar 2006 19:53:57 +0000

They only had freshman dorms open for viewing including South Tower which houses sororities. We drove around and looked at the quad dorms (South and East) of which South is apparently going to become a Capstone preferred dorm for Sophomores. It is older but looks to be a nice option for sophomore year. Towers are pretty awful looking from the street…remnants of that fabulous fifties/sixties architecture that is so terribly dated on college campuses now.

Honors is in Maxcy and first 4 or 5 floors of Capstone next year. Remainder of Capstone is for Capstone Scholars with overflow in Columbia.

My overall impression of Columbia went up significantly after this visit. Our trip in July was getting in late in the afternoon in a hard rainstorm, grabbing dinner in the Vista at a place called Liberty (we ate there again this past Sunday since many places in Vista were closed on Sunday) morning info session and tour, quick lunch then on the road again heading to Greenville. We really thought that Greenville was quite nice after two nights there but had formed no real impression of Columbia other than USC clearly being an urban campus before this weekend.