And there are still schools that have a high male to female ratio, like all the service academies and many engineering school. My daughter’s school was only 27% female when she was there.
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Tulane and UVM (a state flagship!) are both about 64/36 male.
Not to brag or anything, but a picture of me leaning over a table talking to a professor and another student was front-and-center in my school’s viewbook for a number of years. [flips hair]
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Probably a 5 or 10 year huge admission spike !!!
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Curious about this bc IMO Chicago very much has a campus, both in terms of vibe and reality. It’s also not in the city proper. I mean if you didn’t like it that’s obviously fine, but it’s a far cry from NYU, BU or Columbia.
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Not sure where the above poster got the impression that Chicago doesn’t have a real campus. It’s a gorgeous campus. Maybe the poster was thinking about the business school. Even UIC, which is closer to downtown, has a real campus.
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Yeah that’s a head scratcher for sure.
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I think the poster had a list of city schools, then followed them with that parenthetical notation which was meant to refer to all of the preceding list, not just Chicago, indicating that their child preferred not-city, and especially didn’t like city schools without a campus - implying that not all cut city schools fell into that latter category. Chicago just had the bad luck to be the last named city school before the parentheses.
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Someone on the other thread posted about St. Olaf, and I responded asking about it’s walkability and also curious what other things they loved about it. I thought I was on this off-topic thread but apparently not as my post was deleted and suggested I start my own thread if I am looking for college suggestions. Since I am not looking for random suggestions and was responding about St. Olaf, I came here. Any other positive visit information about St. Olaf I would love to hear impressions. I have lived in the Twin Cities but never visited Northfield.
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@M_Fun posted about their recent visit to St. Olaf and raved. Here’s a link to their post: Colleges your child crossed off the list after visiting, schools that moved up on the list. Why? - #7082 by M_Fun
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Note-taking template? We start our whirlwind winter and spring college tours this weekend. Does anyone have a template they use to take notes about each school? We will report back here, of course, but I want to have a systematic way to maintain notes of each school so they don’t all start to blend together.
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I don’t have a template but make sure you capture the student’s feedback and I would do so in video - the minute you step off campus - likes, dislikes, the area, etc.
You pick up their emotion.
After you been to 20, they’ve forgotten and then it’s like - as you are finalizing - what did you like - well I don’t really remember, etc.
If you have the video to pull up, you can see - with emotion.
But I think:
Campus - did they like - including for some architecture
Did you eat there - good food?
Neighborhood - nice, safe, enough to do?
Info related to clubs or religion things you need?
Can you see yourself here for four years?
But really - get her on video!!! And right away - the emotions will be there (or not if not good).
Given your large list, it will be most helpful.
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No template, but while we eat lunch (or whatever) I go over things with D24 that stuck out to me and she does the same, and then she makes notes, pros/cons into a Google doc so she can look back at it later.
I think at each school has certain things that will stand out and the points just sort of come naturally. If that makes sense.
The video idea is great.
I use the notes app on my phone. I don’t say before the visit or immediately after what my opinion is. I ask the kid to name 3 things they liked and 3 things they didn’t like so much. Then I jot down whatever the kid says. Usually I end up asking Kid to expand on or explain what they mean, which brings out more feedback. And I note that down, too. And I add on my own thoughts. Do this on the same day as the college visit.
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Some families record impressions, couple comments with photos, etc. The key thing is preserving the info while it’s fresh. Not saying a template won’t help, but it’s not the only way.
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And after doing this on a few visits, it makes it really easy to compare 1 school to another later on when you’re trying to remember stuff. I put it in a Word doc or excel later on when we get home.
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Mine had a small notebook and jotted impressions down as soon as we got in the car after the visit.
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My daughters took notes on their phones in the Notes app. My younger daughter also took voice memos/recordings of her impressions. I made sure to have them both give their impressions before giving mine.
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We did a deep dive debrief after each visit the second we got back in the car. D would write down all her pros/cons for each school while it was still fresh (she took notes on her phone), and anything especially note worthy. She used those notes for the “why us” essays as we visited before applications.
We also made sure that D told us what she thought before we gave our impressions.
My spreadsheet included: acceptance rate, COA, rankings for D’s major, enrollment numbers, student:teacher ration, if there was a first year engineering program, 4 year graduation rate, % of women in engineering, average test scores, average gpa, job placement, if my d’s intended minor was offered, number of students in her major, and co-op statistics.
I went back and pulled my spreadsheet and had details about job placement outliers and trends, curriculum notes, credits required for graduation, and then my list of questions for tours.
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