This is very smart! I will be adding this onto my list of things to note during tours.
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My son absolutely refused to look at Baldwin Wallace, which checked every single box heâs ever has, because their mascot is a bee, and he had a bee phobia.
Yup.
He also refused to apply to High Point University because they sent so much mail and email (and even a giant box with a giant book, once) that he was convinced it was some stalkerish cult.
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Hmmm, he probably isnât wrong.
My son said he wouldnât look at any colleges with reputations for having a lot of really smart people because âthose people annoy me.â
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That reminds me of one of S24âs comments: âI want to go to college with real people.â
Me: âAs opposed to those colleges filled with Cylons?â 
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D24 has ruled out colleges because my DH âasked too many questions and was annoyingâ with the admissions office staff. 
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Some reasons are less stupid than others. 
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Back in the day, this thread helped me anticipate what sort of things my son might react to on campus - roads through campus, weird mascots, etc. But it turned out it was the campus bulletin boards that got a number of schools knocked off his list - too much politics, off it went.
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So far with DD2 itâs colors - âtoo orangeâ or âtoo purpleâ and theyâre off the list. Canât say that I blame her - I couldnât live with so much Tennessee orange without being a little on edge.
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Purple has always been my favorite color so I think I would have liked that!
I hear you on the orange though. Not sure why Orange makes me more angry than red
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Almost had this happen to us with Macalester because to D it âlooks and sounds like molesterâ. Itâs still on our list but she canât unsee it.
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Peruse the single-malt scotch aisle with her and see if you can overwrite that impression with something both more apt and more positive?
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We have a very general ânothing in the southâ rule with one kid. And the other S25, has zero requirements except that it has NROTC. Other than that, really thinks he does not care. We will be visiting schools on the list I made because he thinks it doesnât matter where he goes 
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My D also didnât want anything in the south. Her only reason was she doesnât like being hot. 
lol
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I have one kid who I donât think cared where she went to school. I really think she would have been happy anywhere, at any kind of school. She gets along with everyone, doesnât care if she is hot or cold, didnât care about fancy dorms (really, she lived in a cinder-block dorm from the 1960s), liked the little bit of sports her school had but could have lived without itâŠjust an easy kid. She did want to live on campus.
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Son nixed case western because they sent too many emails.
And no schools that are all brick buildings or too new. Collegiate gothic is VERY important to him
MIT because they donât accept common app.
No CA schools - too far left
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Mine wanted no red brick and ended up at a school that is entirely red brick.
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S24 eliminated one university because it had âtoo many stairs.â
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Child1 - âthis is what sorrow and depression look likeâ - referring to the campus and town of one school.
Child2 - âthis campus is too grayâ - about a completely different school where, yes, they do face all their buildings in gray stone. But they are really beautiful buildings! Just⊠gray.
Child2 again - NH and VT are too cold - which is totally valid. But now heâs interested in McGill⊠which is in Montreal. And is much colder.
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My D26 who is a potential BSN (nursing) major has added a âscrub colorâ column to her list of schools. It appears that maroon scrubs are only a D+ but navy blue warrants an A, and she absolutely refuses to look at a school that posted photos of their nursing students wearing old school white nurses caps!
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