<p>My oldest, an art major, drove me crazy by ruling out schools as soon as we walked on campus due to the shape of the buildings, ie if a campus consisted of mainly square and unadorned buildings, it was immediately taken off the list. Then we had to visit the art building, bonus points if it was in an unique location; one school had their main art studio in an old Coke bottling plant, another had little funky outdoor semiprivate studios for upper-class art students. One of her pet peeves was student guides who would say things similar to “see that big square building over there, that’s the library” and my child would lean to me and whisper, “can’t they tell that is a rectangle or whatever building?” Also the buildings couldn’t all be oriented the same way, she wasn’t a fan of the central common with the buildings around it, or the main boulevard with buildings all facing front. </p>
<p>Son, pretty much beyond his program, all that mattered was that he could do theater or improv without taking classes in those fields.</p>