@GnocchiB. At least in California it’s called Disc Golf. I always thought it was due to a war with Wham-O over sponsorship or patents but see
I live around the corner from a “disc golf” course and people are lining up to play before the sun comes up. The traditional golf course across the street costs at least 20 x more per round and is comparatively empty.
My kid calls it frolf 
We all thought the OOS kids were the rich kids because they were paying 5X what instate kids were paying.
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We didn’t ever see yurts on a campus. Yurts would be a big plus for DS. But, that’s because of XKCD Time, and it would be a big task to explain here why that makes yurts a plus. All I can say is that baobab trees and sandcastles are also big pluses because of XKCD Time.
On topic: He visits UNLV (U Nevada Las Vegas) every June for a math event. 110 degree temperatures made it definitely a place he wouldn’t consider applying.
Indiana U of Pennsylvania- school or one gigantic frat house disguised as a school? Too many hills gave me vertigo.
Montclair U- ugliest campus I’ve probably ever seen. More hills that gave me vertigo. “Close to the train station so you can go to New York!” - In that case I would just go to school in New York. Cell towers and dorms made me feel like I was in prison.
Drexel- a campus face fit for radio. We get it, you have a co-op program
Monmouth U - everyone seems to live off campus and has a car. Seemed like party central yet incredibly boring all at once, even if it’s close to the beach! Seems more like an old estate rather than a school.
Hunter College - you see those buildings, with the walkway between them? Yep, that’s it. That’s the entire campus.
Penn State- awful high rise dorms on tour. So many student clubs yet students seem to do nothing but drink in front of greek houses all day.
OSU- the walk from High to Morrill/Lincoln. No thanks! Also not a very walking friendly campus or city. Half of the classrooms are underground. Hot as the devil’s bumhole during the summer!
Bard College at Simon’s Rock- weird art, middle of NOWHERE! What if I need to buy toilet paper? Fun Friday nights here seem to consist of smoking copious amounts of weed and running around high from one end of campus to the other. Pretentious artsy fartsy Fisher Center.
UMaryland- concrete and brick, yuck. Unnecessarily long fountain. Not the best area off campus. I liked the resources for language geeks, however.
NYU- Visited WSP on a Friday night, and there was too MUCH to do. Seemed too distracting of an environment for studying.
GW- ugly buildings, no trees, no grass, Thirsty Thurston references during walking tour. Student body of internship zombies, who all happen to be from New Jersey. Weird obsession with Georgetown by info session leaders AND by multiple staff (professors!) we met.
Pitt- Carnegie Mellon’s campus was better, and they’re both terrible. Sat in on a class (it might have been in the cathedral but it may have not, can’t remember) and the seating was a little too steep for me, like an IMAX theater. That too gave me vertigo…
Rutgers- College Ave is hell on earth. Busch is a close second. God awful train station.
Georgetown- Too Jesuit, repressive homosexuality (a la Boston College and Notre Dame), more hills. Rather hideous campus just tall block dorms.
Michigan- visited after I got accepted. Incredibly friendly student workers, which shocked me. Was my dream school but left my visit disheartened. Ann Arbor was louder and more hustle and bustle than I had expected. Half the campus is sidewalk. More of a bus school rather than a walking school. Students party a little too hard for a top-notch school. Fattest squirrels I’ve ever seen in my life.
Columbia- Low Plaza. That’s it. That’s the entire campus. SO much smaller than I expected. All undergrads living on campus (obviously they would have to) still strikes me as weird - how do you take hook ups home? Do you have to sign them in? Decentralized social scene (all that ubering sounds expensive). All the steps and plazas and bridges and square pathways…can’t I just walk straight!
Princeton- Perfect. A little too perfect. Normalization of living in McMansions on Street struck me as bizarre and Stepford Wive-like. Students seem out of touch with reality. Athletes are the top of the food chain, as are legacies.
Cornell- prettiest campus of the Ivies, yet there seemed to me that there’s nothing to do. Liebe Slope is cute but what else is there to do besides scaling the multiple levels of the tall library? All the studying spaces seemed depressing and a little too quiet. Would be the ideal college campus had it been closer to civilization. Also, students aren’t able to enjoy Ithaca in all of its glory - prettiest days seem to be when school is not in session! Worst hills of any of the schools I’ve visited!
Penn- Lack of green space (high rise field does not count), rude student body, annoying flyering on Locust, campus is only one street yet buildings are still impossible to locate, the bridge, things start getting weird after 44th, weirdos at McDonalds after midnight, loose/missing bricks on Locust, aggressive squirrels, WIND TUNNEL. I now go here.
Wow you really got into the spirit of this thread!
Vanderbilt- Great school but too Greek for my daughter. The interviewer kept insisting that my D join a sorority and would not stop- even after my D told her 3 times that she had no interest. I guess she should have done a better job investigating Greek life before applying.
Kenyon. AO asked where we were driving from, and we said we were coming from Denison (which had been a great visit.). To which the reply was "We never lose students to Denison. " That comment, followed by a tour that involved dodging construction profects, pretty much put DS on a path to shatter the AO’s “never”.
@gardenstategal we had a very similar experience at Davidson. On the way out of the info session my husband chatted up the AO and mentioned that he was a Washington & Lee alum. Her exact words in response were “we don’t consider W&L a peer school. Our peer schools are Williams, Pomona and Amherst.”
Um, really?
LOL- My daughter loved CMC but didn’t think Pomona was snobby as much as maybe a bit too introverted for her. Lots of dinner discussion from this as she is a double legacy at Pomona. I love CMC too- so lots of support for jumping to the rival.
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I find it outrageous that the Kenyon AO said that!! Awful ambassador for the school
‘But, to name names, I did not like Smith. The campus is oddly cramped and the town of Northampton seemed like Karl Marx meets Murder She Wrote. There were to many homeless men leering at the young women, an odd juxtaposition with Smith.’
@WISdad23 laughing hard about that—I took D there last spring to show her where I had spent a happy semester on exchange from Claremont. Instead of taking her to the Ivy style quad and dance facilities,the tour guide showed her the houses in town and pointed out all the quirky weirdness that Smith has to offer. It was a hard ‘no’ in spite of a wonderful interviewer and lovely walk around Paradise Pond boathouse. When I showed her the other side of campus on my own she loved it, but commented that ‘the mere fact that the guide was unconcerned by what might appeal to me is an indication that this is not where I want to spend 4 years.’
@gardenstategal Kenyon and Denison kids definitely “dis” each other (though coming from an AO, that is a little distasteful) – we’ve met a bunch of Denison kids who feel they dodged a bullet by choosing Denison over Kenyon – it is all about fit!. I imagine it was particularly satisfying when Denison won the national championship in swimming and diving, something Kenyon seemed to “own” for quite some time.
Georgetown. The campus was kinda ugly, and all the kids on the tour looked very high brow.
The worst part was this couple and their daughter who would answer all the trivia questions about Georgetown before anyone else had a chance to even hear the questions, and then would subject us to various mentions of what buildings used to look like and what they used to do in college #:-S
Amherst. Wanted to love it before visiting. Tiny uninteresting campus and very snobby admissions staff and tour guides despite obvious strong points. Implicit message to visiting students: “this is an elite club and we will only accept a small number of you; in general, you are not good enough to be part of our club.” Answer: “Umm, yes I am. No thank you.”
Hampden Sydney College in VA. Exterior was beautiful country setting with stately old buildings and fairly well landscaped. Upon closer look, paint peeling and the saddest dining hall I’ve ever seen. I had tears in my eyes as we sat and ate, because I just imagined my son stuck here in the middle of nowhere, where the details just seemed lacking and something was just off. So glad he ruled it out after getting accepted into his first choice school elsewhere.
@Snowfairy, I don’t know your dad, but Im a middle-aged guy, and whenever a stranger offers me crack, I take it as a hint that it might just be time for a haircut & a wardrobe upgrade.
Anybody get a nasty look for pronouncing the “h” in Amherst?
@YonceKnowles, you are an overachiever.
@moooop haha my dad needs whatever the opposite of a haircut is. I think he was dressed fine, although the sweatshirt he was wearing cause it was cold the day before could have been it.
My older D is at Scripps, and she and I toured both Scripps and Pitzer when she was in HS. Then with my younger D, she wanted to attend the info session at Pomona too (but we skipped the tour other than visiting the art gallery). With a kid at Scripps, and having heard the adcom pitches at Scripps and Pitzer, Pomona’s was really kind of a turn-off. The other Claremont schools make a big point of talking about how they’re different from the others (Scripps is the women’s college, Pitzer focuses on social and environmental justice, Mudd is the tech college, CMC is known for economics/political/leadership studies). But Pomona’s attitude seems to be that they’re the best one of the five so they don’t need to distinguish themselves . . . resulting in my D feeling like there was nothing special about the school at all.
I was also a bit taken aback that the whole “you can major in something that’s only offered at one of the other 5 C’s” rule that applies at Scripps and Pitzer, apparently doesn’t apply at Pomona. So if you get into Pomona and you want to major in engineering at Harvey Mudd, you’re out of luck – but if you went to one of the other schools, you could do that.