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<p>I actually got the opposite feeling when I visited Princeton, my tour guide was very enthusiastic. There were some very elitist people at Princeton but overall it was a good visit. I can tell my friends at Duke about one encounter I had. </p>
<p>The Best: Brown, Princeton, MIT (chose not to apply there bc it wasn’t common app and I thought there was no way I would have gotten in)
The Worst: U-Penn, WashU</p>
<p>SUNY Buffalo and University of Maryland- College Park-- all of my items were received on time, yet I’m STILL waiting to receive decisions! It’s ridiculous. I got into far better schools than those yet it’s ludicrous that it’s April 22 and I’ve yet to hear from them.</p>
<p>I have a few…</p>
<p>NYU kept sending my friend packages an admitted student would expect: a course catalogue, a dorm application and a viewbook listing all of the dorming options, and a couple of calendars of upcoming events on campus. So when she’s rejected, she’s a little confused and pretty upset. About 2 weeks after she was rejected, she got invited to an event for admitted students. This understandably ****ed her off. Her mother ended up calling admissions to see what was up and they profusely apologized for incorrectly mailing that letter to her.</p>
<p>Then there was Mt. Holyoke who after rejecting my friend, decides to mail her a course catalogue about a week later.</p>
<p>Then there’s Duke. Invited a friend to an event on campus about a week before decisions were out. My friend goes to visit, loves the campus, and has now changed his first choice to Duke. He then gets wait-listed a week later. He eventually got off the wait-list, but still…What nerve!</p>
<p>I applied to William and Mary. They only asked for the FAFSA, so that was all I sent in. I got a letter from them saying, please send in your 2007 tax forms as soon as possible so we can send you your financial aid package and so you can have the most information with which to make enrollment decisions. I sent those papers in, yet I was waitlisted.</p>
<p>Our visits to Conn College and Clark U didn’t go well.<br>
The admissions office at Conn smelled bad (cigarettes, perhaps?) and the dorm room they took us to smelled REALLY bad. Plus the tour guide waved her arm around the quad and said “How could I not love it here, it’s so beautiful” and all we saw was a really big empty grass field. Not a tree or planting in sight. </p>
<p>The kiss of death at Clark was the hookah in the quad.</p>
<p>To each his own</p>
<p>Tulane:</p>
<p>All the mail they sent me addressed me as “Mr.” when I am a girl. Not only that, they misspelled my name X_X.</p>
<p>Well, needless to say, I did not apply.</p>
<p>George Mason University.</p>
<p>I spoke with an admissions representative from that school in the fall of my junior year, at a college fair. It was actually going quite well at first. I have an aunt that teaches at the university and family in the area, so I was initially more interested in it than most of the other colleges I saw. I liked what I was hearing about academics and student life, and I was thinking “Maybe this could be a really cool safety…”</p>
<p>And then we got to talking about sports. I mentioned that I’m not at all athletic, but I’m a huge basketball fan. She then proceeded to brag about (as if I needed reminding) GMU’s win over UConn to get into the Final Four that previous spring.</p>
<p>The idiot was right in the middle of Connecticut! She’d just heard that I was a basketball fan! What was she thinking, that I’d be psyched to hear yet again how that school had beaten my favorite team ever? I was totally ready to overlook the athletic thing completely and look into the school further, but I was offended, and stunned that someone trying to represent a school could make a blunder like that. Needless to say, I didn’t spend much time looking over George Mason’s literature after I got home.</p>
<p>Hofstra- The school is so far away from the city and i had a difficult time getting my transcripts in. I sent it once in December only to find out three months later that they never received it. They couldn’t even have the courtesy to call me and let me know they are missing application materials. I had to check up on them to make sure. I sent another transcript twice via fax because they never received the first fax and I wasn’t going through mailing it again. In the end, I was admitted but Ultimately rejected their offer with pride and dignity.</p>
<p>St. Johns University- Academics/faculty/social life suck at St. Johns (didn’t apply)</p>
<p>UMass-Amherst- Waaay too large. Theres a reason for their nickname being “ZooMass”. The large amount of parties they throw will definitely distract me and not to talk of the fact that getting into graduate school will be hindered.</p>
<p>MIT/CalTech- As much as I want to focus on my academics, I also want to have a life outside of schoolwork and I don’t think these two schools will let me have that. Also MIT’s ugly campus is a complete turn-off (didn’t apply)</p>
<p>In the end, I am definitely happy picking Syracuse over the colleges I was admitted to.</p>
<p>University of Maryland: College Park- They forgot about my application, and rejected me after we called numerous times about when my decision would be coming. My “rejection” came 3 months after it should have (I applied priority). I was so ****ed. I know so many idiots that got into that school.</p>
<p>We were at a huge college fair. Walked up to the Morehouse table and the rep was basically yelling at the woman in front of us “you gotta meet the minimums.” Jeez, I thought, that was brutal.</p>
<p>It came to our turn. I asked about their legacy program. Some schools require you apply ED for this to count. Some schools only count parents; some count grandparents, etc. Meaning it varies and I wanted to know the Morehouse policy.</p>
<p>The guy looks at me like I’m nuts. “Why should it matter if your father went here?” he asks me. I politely tell him that most (if not all) private schools have some sort of legacy policy and I just wanted to confirm that of Morehouse. At which point he starts to yell at me “You gotta meet the minimums.” He doesn’t know my son. He has no idea whether this kid is a NMS or barely scraping through school. What is this guy’s problem? Needless to say Morehouse is off of DS’s list. Their loss-- he is a great kid. and a great student OH-btw the “minimums” were 950/1600 SAT and a 2.5 GPA.</p>
<p>After I was admitted ED at Princeton, it took them until April to withdraw my application, and mind you AFTER I was accepted there. I called them 5 times in the previous months to remove my applicant file. They failed utterly, and I was in shock when I received an acceptance notification in the mail. I called again, and like the previous times, the people in the admissions office were so inept and clueless that it took the better part of an hour to get me in touch with the Asst. Director of Admissions. Not only that, but all the secretarial workers spoke broken English. Finally, after I talked to the Asst. Director, he freaked out and called me back immediately after everything was taken care of to let me know that I was completely withdrawn. Holy cow what an ordeal, and for that reason I nominate Stanford as having one of the WORST admissions offices in the nation. Period.</p>
<p>bump 10char</p>
<p>“The kiss of death at Clark was the hookah in the quad.”</p>
<p>LOL! Thanks for the laugh.</p>
<p>Earlier this year, I had a problem with schools not receiving teacher recommendations. I e-mailed and called all my schools to confirm receipt. I e-mailed William and Mary in late January to confirm that my application is complete. Two months later, in late March, I received a reply that yes, they had received them. It was 2 weeks after I had received my acceptance letter.</p>