<p>One game I play when talking with students about finding the right college fit is the following….</p>
<p>Pretend that you have a good friend attending each of the USNWR Top 30 national universities. College Airways is offering you a free ticket to travel to any of the colleges ranked in the USNWR Top 30 national universities (note: I know that some of the schools are a 1-2 hour drive from the airport). Which colleges would you visit to have a good time? Select up to three schools that you think would be the most fun to visit over a weekend and any activities that you might engage in while there. </p>
<p>Atlanta: Emory
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins
Boston area: Harvard, MIT, Dartmouth, Brown, Tufts
Chicago: U Chicago, Northwestern, Notre Dame
Detroit: U Michigan
Hartford: Yale
Houston: Rice
Los Angeles: Caltech, UCLA, USC
Nashville: Vanderbilt
New York area: Columbia, Princeton
Philadelphia: U Penn
Pittsburgh: Carnegie Mellon
Raleigh-Durham: Duke, U North Carolina, Wake Forest
St. Louis: Wash U
San Francisco: Stanford, UC Berkeley
Syracuse: Cornell
Washington DC: Georgetown, U Virginia</p>
<p>Stanford is more San Jose than San Francisco.</p>
<p>I know-please try not to get too hung up on the travel arrangements. :)</p>
<p>Would you pick it as one of your top 3 colleges to visit for fun on the weekends?</p>
<p>**Which colleges would you visit to have a good time? **</p>
<p>Based from my recent visits to some US universities, I would pick these 3 schools:</p>
<p>Harvard, Berkeley and Columbia</p>
<p>Thought you’d include NYU in the list…</p>
<p>i visit friends at universities all the time. usually they’re bama, auburn, sewanee, and uga. visited harvard a couple times because i had a g/f up there. basically, vanderbilt is BY FAR more entertaining than any other top 30 school so i disagree with this whole scenario.</p>
<p>Michigan, UVA, UNC and back when they had a winning football team, Notre Dame.</p>
<p>Stanford (San Francisco)
Harvard (Boston)
Columbia (NewYork)</p>
<p>Well it really depends on what someone is in to. If they are a big sports fan, then they are going to pick a football school. Some of the schools also have reputations as party schools. There are also a lot of schools known for great cultural events.</p>
<p>I would personally pick Notre Dame if a winning season and football tickets were involved, Vandy if the right concert were involved, and Harvard/Boston area, particularly around St Paddy’s.</p>
<p>Penn
Berkeley
Chicago</p>
<p>Balletgirl, did you say Stanford? As in the one in Palo Alto? I’m surprised someone has mentioned Stanford, really.</p>
<p>I visited Stanford a couple of times coz I’ve been really wanting to do a postgrad studies there but I thought it was really a dull place be and the people are boring. (Though I have to give recognition for their courtesy.) I still thought Stanford is dull (monotonous) as a whole. Excellent reputation but does not offer very good college experience, in my opinion. I thought Berkeley was a pretty vibrant place and the mixture of people adds up to its cosmopolitan feel. I thought Berkeley is the place to be in the West Coast. But hands down to Harvard! I thought my visit to Harvard was amazing. And so was in Columbia. UPenn weather was awful.</p>
<p>If you can get a spot near the front on the line at Cameron, it would be Duke.</p>