<p>Since we have a “schools you would never go to” thread, and since the last dream school thread was two months ago and only pertained to non ivy, I figure why not start a new one for 08 for everyone. So post your dream school (s) here and why. I’ll start:</p>
<p>University of Southern California. To me it’s the perfect hybrid of academics, prestige (alumni connects, and sports), and the perfect location/social life to go with it. A lot of people really think LA is crowded yet want to come to Boston or NYC for school, LOL, wait till you get here. I see people saying they want a “real winter” and snow. I will tell you now, snow is cool for about two days every three years. Really. After you have to shovel, drive through slush, see it get all black and ugly, walk, run, jog, LIVE through it, you learn to loathe snow. Yes, I have a personal vendetta against this white cloaked villain.</p>
<p>Penn State University. Even though it has winter and snow, the school atmosphere, the once again national familiarity (again, penn state alums are everywhere), a great honors college that has scholarships and study abroad grands, and an incredible student body made me able to ignore this.</p>
<p>Either way, I’ll be happy come september. What about you guys.</p>
<p>Notre Dame is the best school for me. Very few other schools have an atmosphere of tradition like Notre Dame. I love that feeling. The religious thing does play a big part in it, too. I’ve gone to Catholic schools my entire life and are grateful for what they bring to the educational experience. I felt that college would be lacking to some degree without that religious element. Then there’s also school spirit. Domers love Notre Dame, and it shows. They have the largest alumni network in the nation, and certainly one of the most active. All in all the three things, tradition, spirit, and pride, are what make Notre Dame my perfect school.</p>
<p>I think a school like Wesleyan would be the best school for me. It seems like there’s an intellectual atmosphere there, but the students aren’t super competitive, and they’re pretty chill and just like to learn, and they know how to relax.</p>
<p>I’m a junior and I haven’t visited anywhere yet, but as of now.
Brown. It’s a great location—not too far from home, but not too close. Feasible distance from a large city that I’m familiar with. From what I’ve heard about the area, I’d like it. I love the freedom with course choice/concentration. I get a fantastic education and also have the ability to co-register at RISD which is a major plus for me since I love art and fashion design and though art can be found at most schools, fashion design and illustration courses cannot. and there’s a Study Abroad option, which I’m itnerested in doing.</p>
<p>i’m also a junior… but i’ve absolutely fallen in love with stanford</p>
<p>the location (california is my favorite place on earth… bay area-ish especially) is perfect. I LOVE downtown palo alto hfdgsahf.</p>
<p>the athetics are great. and DAMN, that’s what i call school spirit. </p>
<p>the campus is beautiful, the student body is diverse and has a “smartsmartsmart but down to earth, and extremely well-rounded” feel. </p>
<p>the education is great… a quarter system coupled with numerous courses that offer the best education around. AND THE SCIENCES. oh man biochemistry/neuroscience = love ahha</p>
<p>minimal smoking. last time i heard, stanford has banned smoking on campus? well anyway, everytime i have gone, i haven’t seen a single smoker YEAHH. </p>
<p>and lastly, it has the prestige. </p>
<p>man that place is everything i could ever ask for. hahah</p>
<p>I keep waiting for the day on one of my college visits that I’ll walk onto a campus and be like, “yeah.”
The Claremont schools feel like home, so they’re out. And I wanted so badly to just fall in love with U Chicago but when I look back on it something is missing and I don’t know what. And CMU was pretty rad, I admit. But I don’t think that I’d fit in with their smaller focus on the Liberal Arts. Gaa!!!</p>
<p>I demand perfection. Yay for those who’ve found it.</p>
<p>hollyert; You’ll find it. I went to Boston and toured around 7 colleges, came home and found it. Silly right? Itll hit you. I stepped out of the car and felt right away.</p>
<p>Rice is my favourite too.
Great academics + great social life.
Residential college system = super fun
Weather is awesome!
Great school for sciences</p>
<p>I think for a lot of people who can’t visit you should **************/facebook/myspace/virtual tour/etc. You can’t take any one of those things as an absolute truth about the school, but combined they give you the best possible picture of the environment (and sometimes better in regards to knowing how people are) without having to go.</p>
<p>Amherst College
i love the
1- arty atmosphere
2- the slightly nerdy and very friendly people
3-the five college consortium
4-no graduate school
5-its near Boston
6-the fact that you can make up your own course schedule.</p>
<p>NYU
Artistic, diverse and talented student body
Greatest city in the world - so much to see and experience
Dynamic and creative atmosphere of Greenwhich Village
One of the top schools for studying Film, Literature and Writing</p>
<p>…oh yeah…tons of interesting women both in school and walking around downtown… ;-)</p>
<p>Georgetown is it for me.
I love DC! (amazing place to just be, plus internships, plus it is not as cold as the northeast)
There is an entire school devoted to my major (School of foreign service).
There is an SFS in Qatar and a villa in Turkey (very few schools have study abroad in the Middle East)
I have almost 0 gen ed requirements
incredible school spirit.
basketball games! (and jack the mascot is an actual dog that lives in the dorms)
the faith community is there but isn’t overwhelming
work hard play hard attitude
I can’t believe I am going!</p>
<p>Stanford= west coast, sunshine, not too far from home (southern cali), great financial aid, faculty, academics, well-rounded, and a bad ass school band. lol.</p>
<p>haha, my reasons for Stanford are pretty much the same as Metallica2289’s. I didn’t want to wait and compare financial aid packages, because I’m really, really happy with what they offered (actually, it was an estimate based on 2006 household income, but saying as 2007 household is the same and maybe even lower, it looks pretty accurate). Also, it’s not far from my home here in Southern California, so I still get the same sun’n’fun here on the west coast, so not changing time zones is also a plus. It may not be an ivy, but in terms of academics, it’s just as good. I like the size of the school, and if I don’t change my intended major (I know I won’t declare until after sophomore year, but as of now, it’s computer science), then its location so close to Silicon Valley will be perfect.</p>
<p>I’ve never had the formal campus tour, I’ve only walked around campus with one of my friends that attends, but now, my only hope is that after going there, I don’t suffer from that feeling of “it-looked-better-in-the-brochures.”</p>
<p>Portland Community College Sylvania campus
I slacked of in high school
Its cheap
I get to live with my parents while in college
The sylvania campus is so nice
High school with cigarettes</p>