When one of the recent Ohio State football coaches dared utter the word, “Michigan”, it made headlines because it’s a tradition not to say it. It’s referred to as, “That school up north.”
GoBlue
UVA, beautiful campus but stuck up kids
There’s an old joke in the SF Bay Area.
When asked why a student chose Cal (Berkeley), the Cal student answers “Because I didn’t get into Stanford.”
And then there’s the www.stanfordrejects.com website, which redirects the viewer to the Cal website. It’s all good fun.
Time to get back to the purpose of this thread!
Will delete any more OSU/MI rivalry posts.
Linfield College. It was a top pick for me pre-visit, but everything felt underwhelming and the tour guide gave me a non-answer when I asked about diversity. There was just no wow factor.
Northwestern. I was ready to love it, but we spent 20 minutes of the tour in front on an ugly spraypainted rock talking about some kind of tradition (boring). I kept waiting for something like a quad which never appreared.
Also Boston College. Very blah presentation - word salad with no meaning. No life to the campus - maybe we just hit an off day, but twins and I were not feeling it.
@maitotoxin I disagree. My daughter is headed there in the fall and chose UVA over Cornell, WashU and UMich because she thought the people she met at UVA were really welcoming and nice. In fact, before her final decision, she spent a weekend at UVA and at Cornell and found the UVA kids much more down to earth and inclusive than those at Cornell.
Forgot about Cornell. We weren’t on a tour so tried to head to the admission office first. Asked the students at the parking booth where it is, and they pointed us to a building (a considerable distance to walk, as the campus is huge and there’s no shuttle) which proved to be completely empty when we got there. Luckily somebody walked by who told us the admissions have moved elsewhere. Made our way to the new location, only to have the admissions people offer us some generic brochures. When we asked what to see on campus they seemed puzzled by the question but did point us to the welcome center where we finally found two students who were also tour guides and actually knew their campus (which turned out to be gorgeous when the rain finally stopped).
Although it’s been 5 years, neither my daughter nor I liked Rutgers. They use buses to shuttle students around the various campuses, some of which are miles apart, and it is disjointed. She did not apply
its okay to have a differing opinion… that was just mine. congrats to your daughter, she should be proud
Again, let’s please stop going back and forth with rivalry posts.
I think the problem in a thread like this is when people throw out stereotypes without any substantial backup. Saying that a building wasn’t up to par, in general the campus didn’t seem vibrant, the guide was boring ,too many shuttles, etc. sounds quite different than claiming that all kids were “arrogant” at a school you had not even been to or “stuck up” with no explanation. Just seems like
it is getting too personal. And , yes , I am referring to the UVA comments that I did not respond to but others did . That’s when it definitely gets tempting to respond . Probably same with descriptions of kids on campuses all being described as weird or quirky. Rivalries are a whole different discussion, but most people view it mostly in good fun! Let’s be kind out there!
" Let’s be kind out there!"
Normally I’d be with you but this is the snark thread and has been so since the beginning. It shouldn’t be taken too seriously and that is okay, IMO. 
That’s pretty funny, @barrons. I’m seeing my Virginia Tech kid tomorrow for the first time in a couple of months. I’ll be thinking of this! My UVA kid would probably think it’s funny too.
@doschicos , I agree, the snark is fun, in general.
Snark thread here, move along if you’re too serious, you have the whole rest of this website.
Heading out to Bowdoin and Colby this week then Emory, Clemson, Davidson, Wake Forest, and Elon. I am anticipating hating Elon. I’ll let you know how that works out.
This wasn’t really a snark thread. It was started as which school unexpectedly was the least favorite.
@cleoforshort doesn’t expect to like Elon, so that wouldn’t be a candidate to be listed. I unexpectedly didn’t like Duke. Thought I would, just didn’t. Doesn’t make it a bad school for someone else, I just didn’t like it.
My son, husband and I had the same reaction to MIT. He was always so excited about the idea of attending MIT until we visited. It was robotic, impersonal and the people seemed so stressed. So glad we visited. There seemed to have a major lack of life balance among the students.