<p>I toured Delaware a couple of weeks ago with my daughter and was very impressed. The campus, imo, was gorgeous, much nicer than many others we’ve looked at. The adcom stressed that it is not so much a state university as a state assisted one, receiving only 20% of its budget from the state. She said the school is very financially sound(lots of money from DuPont and Gore–as in Gore-tex) and nothing is on deferred maintenance. The main green has gorgeous buildings on either side, there seemed to be 3 main classroom buildings quite close together. Main street was right off campus, an easy walk with lots of nice eateries. On the downside, the dorms we saw were pretty depressing inside, but some apartment style dorms off campus were being torn down and rebuilt. The school didn’t feel overly large and anonymous to us. I’m not sure if it’s considered a party school or not. A lot of kids from my area have gone there and I haven’t heard of any who haven’t been extremely happy with their choice. There were many posts on CC in the past by a Delaware student, Mark UDel. You can maybe look them up. I know my daughter is more interested in Delaware after the tour than before.</p>