Yes, the title of this thread is “What school was unexpectedly your least favorite when you visited?” Your opinion of the school you visited was:
“Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken New Jersey is for Hobos. It was a dump.”
You do realize that there are many students who attend the school and that their parents are paying all the expenses, don’t you? The point is that you can say specifically about the things that turned you off upon visiting a particular school, but to say about the school the way you have, with no specific reasons, is just insulting and extremely immature.
@cleoforshort Funny! My brother went to BC (in the 90s) and I think it’s a lovely campus! My daughter could not fully articulate why she didn’t like it, but I was not about to argue with her. Girl is opinionated and ended up w/ a great mix of safeties/matches/reaches (though I would have loved to see her at a small, rural LAC, she wanted nothing to do with those…)
"You do realize that there are many students who attend the school and that their parents are paying all the expenses, don’t you? The point is that you can say specifically about the things that turned you off upon visiting a particular school, but to say about the school the way you have, with no specific reasons, is just insulting and extremely immature. "
I think it’s something in the air today… There’s another thread discussing early admission results where a poster wrote that by definition the school couldn’t be getting a large group of the best and brightest top level students in their early decision pool because those students would of course have applied SCEA to HYPS, which precludes them applying anywhere else. When asked about this claim, the person doubled down and explained that the tippy top students - the ones who everyone considers the leaders and who are told they are the best - would not prefer any school over HYPS and that the only ones that might be applying early to other than HYPS were the ones that didn’t have the confidence in their ability to get in to HYPS so were settling for a less prestigious alternative.
I’m not sure it’s necessarily an immature claim, but it is pretty insulting to students who applied EA or ED to literally any school in the country other than HYPS.
@milee30 Reminds me of a conversation I overheard a few weeks ago (before ED answers came out): “I’m afraid that my daughter will only get into a lower Ivy and shame our family”.
I love that phrase! Succinct and hugely effective. Conveys exactly what a snobbish jerk one truly is while also managing to insult the majority of other humans; rare for a two word phrase to be quite so comprehensive.
@MomOutWest BC has a beautiful campus, I agree! I’ve been really impressed with D17’s experience, the school takes care of their kids. I am grateful that she is there. D14 swore she would never go instate and called from accepted students day at UConn saying “write the check.” I have two more in high school, I’m just going to have them throw darts at a globe. LOL
@slimmy- Of course, there is no accounting for taste. Stevens is a mixture of a lush green park in the midst of a populous cosmopolitan gentrified city and city streets accessing a mixture of architectures ranging from 150 year old classical to current ultramodern. Many more regard the campus as eclectically beautiful than hold your opinion. Again, tastes vary widely, which is expected but when you make a pejorative remark like that- which is actually an overworn cliche- without anything to support it you simply come across as uninformed and unastute.
I sincerely hope you avoid overworn cliche langusge in your college essays.
@Tigger, you don’t need to refute Mr./Ms. Slimmy. Those parents paying their childrens’ Stevens tuition (I might add that 93% of Stevens students receive scholarships) as well as the students themselves are secure in the knowledge that they will be among the highest paid and most fully employed or graduate/professional school accepted college graduates in the United States (Bloomberg Business Week/Payscale survey “What’s Your College Degree Worth, 2017”, 16th in the nation out of 1,130 schools for ROI on tuition). What they may have thought of the campus esthetics is far from their minds.
Please hold-off on any additional public service announcements. However, I will be giving a state of the thread speech later this month. For a small donation I’ll mention Stevens in my speech, and for a slightly larger contribution, I’ll wear a Stevens hat.
At the giant risk of naysayers, Brown isn’t all that. I think a lot of people like it because well it’s an ivy, so it confers bragging rights. It has a beautiful campus with manicured lawns and open curriculum, course shopping and pass fail options. But the students (tour guides) sounded so plastic. They rattle off that they do a hundred ECs and if they actually do, they can’t being doing 100 things all well. It just seemed so fake. It seemed to get in you had to prove that you were achieving the impossible. Lost a lot of respect for Brown.
@Engineer 80 It sucks to have your school slammed here but lighten up Francis. One (admittedly brutal) comment and you pop off about how successful you are. I’ve seen my alma mater take a few shots here (some without any reason whatsoever) and while it irritates me I don’t come back with ”I guess you aren’t smart like me”. If you don’t know how bad that sounded you lack more than a sense of humor.
@prodesse I’m picturing you with your mouth agape, doing the math on what the trip cost you.
For us it was the Coast Guard Academy. Son said as we were driving in - after 6 hours and a million dollars in tolls - “oh they’re marching. Yeah I don’t march”. It was all I could do to not just leave him there.