Off-Topic Discussion from "Colleges Crossed Off List or Moved Up After Visiting"

[NiceUnparticularMan]

Hogwarts Score

A poster in another thread mentioned they had been assigning Hogwarts Scores to colleges they visited: That is off topic in that thread, so I am starting a thread where it will be on topic. Based on what I have seen, I think Yale and particularly its more Gothic residential colleges would merit a high Hogwarts score. Obviously not a coincidence since there is a common DNA in English collegiate universities and the boarding schools in England that Hogwarts was meant to resemble. I’d also suggest the University of Richmond is sort of like what if Slytherin had its own liberal arts college. I don’t mean that as insulting, but there is very much an ambitious, goal-oriented, resourceful, preppy vibe at Richmond, and then a really stunning Gothic campus. And I mean, come on, their mascot is a spider, and it is like everywhere.