<p>"* Schools cousins attended and had much esteem from family. "</p>
<p>Oh, I thought this was the thread for what schools we liked – not what our cousins liked.</p>
<p>Sheesh, Pizzagirl, it’s possible to have a soft spot for schools your cousins attended! 
Are you just kidding? </p>
<p>I like the University of Wisconsin on those grounds (+ the lake).</p>
<p>NYU is vastly overrated in every field imo</p>
<p>I have a soft spot for UPenn because my dad and uncle both attended Wharton. I hope it is ok to like the school for this reason!</p>
<p>barrk123: burn! At least for the fields I’m in, though, I’ll argue that NYU is absolutely not overrated (film and Spanish). </p>
<p>It just goes to show how subjective an exercise this is. As someone above said, there are students at every university.</p>
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<p>Sorry, I don’t get this.</p>
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<p>Yes, she’s kidding. Cobrat is constantly telling us about the experiences of his innumerable cousins. It seems as if no matter what comes up, one of them has experienced it.</p>
<p>For Gilbert and Sullivan fans, I often recall singing this:</p>
<p>“And we are his sisters and his cousins whom he reckons by the dozens and his aunts!”</p>
<p>Thanks, Consolation. I think the DartMOUTH thing might refer to the correct pronunciation being closer to Dartmeth (can’t type a schwa on my keyboard). Presumably mini (do I have the right person?) was pronouncing it DartMOUTH when he was in high school. But maybe there’s something else behind the joke as well.</p>
<p>I SO agree about UCSC and Cal Poly SLO. I really wanted one of our kids to go there (S was accepted to both) but no go. Also LOVE UCB and UCLA. Loathe might be too strong a word, but I’m not crazy about UCSD. It seems to have no center, no soul, no real student community, just a bunch of buildings, some very ugly, all spread out in no logical order.</p>
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<p>Funny, I felt the same way about Haverford; I just loved it. That sense of peacefulness was totally unappealing to my type-A daughter. She wouldn’t even apply.</p>
<p>I can’t say I loathe Boston College, but I was left with negative feelings after touring, mostly based on factors that have nothing to do with whether it’s a good school (like the bathrooms in the admissions office were filthy).</p>
<p>“Presumably mini (do I have the right person?) was pronouncing it DartMOUTH when he was in high school. But maybe there’s something else behind the joke as well.”</p>
<p>When I was 9, I wanted to go to dartMOUTH. (and I don’t even remember why?)</p>
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<p>We took a tour with Haverford which I thought would be great for my S - he didn’t like it. I sent him on another tour with his grandfather - still didn’t like it. Go figure!</p>
<p>My D2 thought they were “too communal” at Haverford – like they were all part of one giant organism. She hated it… D1 likes being part of a group, and she loved Haverford (did not apply due to some restrictions on study abroad). I also thought the campus was lovely and peaceful, too.</p>
<p>Although we didn’t visit, I wanted S to apply to Haverford and he refused. For some reason, it just didn’t catch his fancy. I finally gave up. :)</p>
<p>I recall someone–maybe Carolyn?–whose S took an extreme dislike to Haverford because when they were there he saw kids playing cricket. :D</p>
<p>I really like USC and might apply there for grad school. (California) </p>
<p>I can’t think of any schools I hate off the top of my head. I don’t like Duke though.</p>
<p>The only thing I can really say is that I have a totally unreasonable dislike of Ohio State. 90% of it has to do with the way all the alums emphasize “the”, making it “THE Ohio State University”, like I thought that there were others and that it was critically important that I recognize the speaker as being from the greatest school that there is, was, or ever shall be. They have good academics (and horribly corrupt athletics) and I know some good people who went there… but I hate them a little every time they say the name.</p>
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<p>You know you can’t get away with that without substantiation.</p>
<p>I have a soft spot for Wellesley, probably because they were my first acceptance :3</p>
<p>I hate, hate Notre Dame.</p>
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<p>That is jaw-dropping. :eek: For a second, I thought you were described the hot-acceptances list for my state…</p>
<p>I wonder if it would be possible for a recruiter to just go ■■■■■ Stuy’s grounds for employable prodigies.</p>
<p>Ah, but there’s a catch. In my day, they would have wanted Jews. In Cobrat’s day, they would be seeking “Asians” (only, not really - Chinese mostly; few Mongolians, North Koreans, Uzbekis, Sri Lankans). </p>
<p>In either year, we could have made up the entire class at Cooper Union.</p>
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<p>Well, you should recognize that fact ;)</p>