<p>I will say that Wash U probably does have a more preprofessional feel than some other schools might. For my son, when we visited, he didn’t like that people talked so much about what they were majoring in. He is totally a learning for learning’s sake kind of a guy, whereas my D likes to see a practical application to what she learns. She applied and he didn’t. (my S also was happy going to school “in the middle of nowhere,” my D wasn’t!)</p>
<p>But, again I didn’t get the sense that it was a buttoned-down, we’re in school to be masters of the universe, preppy kind of environment, because that wouldn’t have been right for my D either! I did get the sense that you could be who you were, not fit in a mold.</p>