General discussion.
Where are you visiting or planning to visit? Where have you visited?

This summer, I'm going to go check out Dartmouth, Northwestern, and Rochester. UChicago was on my list until I started looking at Northwestern. I'll be checking out the Boston Conservatory just because I'll be in MA with my older brother, and I'll be going to Johns Hopkins to see one of my friends off </3

I've checked out UPenn, Princeton, Columbia/Barnard, Yale, Amherst, Mt. Holyoke, Smith, Hampshire, and UMass (and probably more that I just don't remember). SMU and UTD just because they're right around where I live, too :P

Any other colleges I should check out? I'm really not interested in Brown.

I'm planning to visit Columbia, NYU, and a few CUNYs. I don't really want to look at SUNYs since I'm not interested in them. I want to visit Boston U, UPenn, and Drexel if I can.

I've visited nearly all the UC's that are around my area. I've gone to UCR, UCSD, UCSB, UCI, UCLA, and USC's campus'. I've also visited CSUSB, CSUF, CSUPP, CSULB, and SDSU campus. Not to mention several different community colleges around my areas. I wanted to have a broad decision between what campus I should attend, so I went to as many as I could. :) Oh, and I've also visited Pepperdine, even if I wasn't really interested in attending there.

I only visited FL schools, so probably none of you would know where they are, but UNF, UCF, FAU, FIU, UF and Valencia :) But I decided to go to FAU, I got accepted into the first 4, not UF though. :ohwell:

Boston University!

Its actually not a bad school. My brother's friend went there and he said he absolutely loved it.

I'll probably only vist University of Cincinnati, OU and OSU

I wish I could visit Northwestern, Columbia, Boston U and NYU

I was going to say Brown but...
You said no.

CSU San Bernardino in June.

I visited University of Iowa, Drake University, and Montana State. I didn't feel the need to tour University of Wisconsin - Madison, seeing as I've been there a bagillion times and leave near.

Aha and I didn't say but I was just at Northwestern from Thursday-Sunday for my Model U.N. conference. The campus is GORGEOUS and all the staff I met were extremely nice and helpful. The one thing that sucks is that theres one starbucks in the Norris building. There are tons of places to eat around the campus and so many cute little shops.

Hmmm..

I visited SJSU, SJCC, Stanford, UC Berkeley, Academy of the Arts, and USF.

During high school, I visited

Loyola Marymount
Pomona
Occidental
Ucla
Usc
Fidm
San Diego State
USD


and the rest I don`t even remember. It was an LA trip thing.


I`ve also been to Usf, Uc Berkeley, City College of SF, and others.

Most of them are near my area.

you guys visited so many UC's. why not UC Davis? WTF@!!! cum visit me

UChicago's famous for kids getting mugged. :D

I'm just gonna say as much bad stuff about them as I can because they rejected me and I wanted to go there soooo bad...

Because it smells like cow shyt. lol. Based on my friends who visited UC Davis. lol. Cow tipping yeah? (But you get expelled for doing it)

LOL. you serious? too bad that's all stereotyping. out of the whole city of davis, only 1 part of it smells. and that's like 2% of the whole 100% only i swear lol. you dont think i thoguht it smelled too? boy was i wrong. and most people who attend davis will tell you that. it isn't even as bad as people make it look.

It scares me when people like you get rejected into colleges that I want (or wanted) to go to. X_X

I was checking out Princeton Review's Top 366 Colleges book and apparently Dartmouth parties a decent bit... hm. I doubt I'd get sucked into partying anyway.

Northwestern seems so nice....... eeehhh, I'm excited for the summer :)

I can hardly consider going to a college in CA. It's just so far away from the northeast, and that means I'd probably see my brother like once a year, if even that. My brother's best friend's at Northwestern and they see each other every other month. I don't mind being a couple states away from my brother or friends, but to be on opposite sides of the nation? :Z

I love the northeast anyway, even though I don't like the cold. Plus, my cello teacher says you'd get a whole lot more gigs there for cheaper transportation-wise since there's so many people in one area.

college in ca is the best. you're missing out on many things. and example would be...
















































































































































































Me.

I live near CSUSB :D Four of my cousins go to it, as well. :D I'm going to my cousin's PCN there this Saturday. ^^

Ooh, Tung. I had plans of going to UC Davis in my junior year in highschool. But the drive up there was far too long, so I never actually visited the campus/got to know it enough for me to be remotely interested. =x A few of my friends in San Diego go there though. ^^

I recently visited The College of William & Mary. It's a beautiful campus, and the visit was pretty cool. I'm going to be a grad student there in the fall, so I got shown around by other grad students and really only got to examine the computer center, but overall it was a pretty cool place with a nice atmosphere.

Aren't you 18? Shouldn't you already be in or deciding on college?


In high school I visited:
University of Georgia
Georgia Tech
Oxford College of Emory
Elon University
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
...and I think that's it. I did a really poor job of touring schools.

People like me?...

I got rejected all over the place. I got into 3/4 of my safeties and that's it. College were brutal this year.

^I see you as a psychotically smart person. So yes, people like you. :P

I'm planning on Suffolk, UMASS Boston and some other nearby colleges with good criminal justice.

i've only visited ucla and uc santa barbara. i plan on visiting uc irvine and ucsd sometime soon.

I went to Southern California and visited basically every UC there over spring break. So that was CalPoly, USC, UCLA, UCSB, and Irvine. I've still got a few years before I even have to worry about that, we were mostly there for my older brother.

I am in college. I was just listing all the schools I went to during my junior year of high school. xD

i live in santa barbara. you should have came and visited me. jp.

oh but

I've visited, fresno state, fidm, and thats it lol.

I've seen Dartmouth and the majority join fraternities and sororities.

I would really, really like to see Williams, UPenn, and Columbia.
If I go to Williams and confirm my current love for it, I'm applying early decision. No doubt. :)

Why not Amherst? ^_^
school rivalryy, yippee!

I really want to go see Barnard (again) after getting more college mail, haha. and I guesss that means Columbia too... I didn't get to actually explore Columbia last year since I went before the school opened. /shrug

I don't get this whole deal with fraternities and sororities. Why are they so appealing to people?

I still don't know. Unless you just want to have a really expensive social life you can't control yourself, can't make friends without buying them, or just are that desperate to fit in. The Greek system here has 100% lived up to my expectations of it being shitty as f**k.

my friend's at williams. she likes it and at the same time she doesn't. she says that the people are weird and hippie not to mention that williams is seriously in bumf**k, massachusetts.

I've visited
UCLA- reeeally huge campus, but nice
UCSD- kinda boring, and too big for my taste
Cal State Fullerton- 37,000 kids, but beautiful campus and happy people
APU- food sucked, but nice dorms
Biola University- great food, seemingly happy kids
Occidental College- too small
Whittier College- dingy, crowded, small, and i didnt like it.
Vanguard University- nice location, awesome dorms and buildings, outgoing students

Well, from the way I see it.. the things that bother the people the most like the location (Williamstown, MA), is a plus for me. Such seclusion can make a stronger community. I'm really looking for a close-knit community and great undergraduate focus. Oh and an awesome Asian Studies department too. I like the Junior Advisor program too. Williams is a huuuuuuuuge reach for me though, meh.

As for Amherst, I've thought about it, but it doesn't appeal to me as much as Williams.

What it really comes down to for me is Dartmouth and Williams.
I'm really leaning more towards Williams because I'm rejecting Dartmouth's fraternity community. Not that you can't live without joining, which I'm sure it's possible. Just don't want to be tempted to join one.

I'm not sure if this is the same with all frats, but at Columbia, if you join a fraternity or sorority, it opens up a lot of opportunities for you. Alumni from your frat/sor are excellent connections - I have a few friends in frats that got jobs because of it. It also provides special housing which is an excellent perk - the frat row housing is SO much better than what you have to go through as an underclassman. Another plus is that many frats are based around interest. We have a crew frat, a swimming frat, baseball frat, etc. These are people you spend a lot of time with and living in a frat makes thinks more unified and fun.

Fraternities and sororities also do a lot of events such as bake sales and community service. They sponsor parties, dances, invite guest speakers to the campus, among many others.

So... yeah. That's the plus of joining a frat or a sorority. The application and rush process for most of them is pretty difficult (some make you do stupid things, some make you write essays, etc), so it makes it an impressive thing to put on applications.

Two of my professors went to Dartmouth. One got her Ph.D. from Dartmouth, and she mentions a lot how there was nothing to do and it was way too damn cold.

Another one of my professors technically went to William & Mary, but was "on loan" to Dartmouth for the last few years of his Ph.D. He says he generally found Dartmouth students to be one-dimensional and too absorbed in their studies.

But it is a good school.


Yep, definitely. A lot of employers will look at your application and say, "Wow, you got up at 5 AM for a whole week to do push-ups and sit-ups?" or "Whoa, you drank how many beers in ten minutes? Yep, I am going to employ you!"

^ My principle and math teacher are alumni of Dartmouth, but they both love it.
I heard the winters are brutal.

where're you from? if you're from the northeast or the midwest, you'll have no problem with the winters.

I've visited....
- USD
- UCSD
- SDSU
- UCR
- UCI
- UCSB
- USC
- UCLA
- Loyola
- Point Loma Nazarene
- Pepperdine

Idk...I kinda don't wanna stay in San Diego/socal, so I'm more interested in seeing all the UCs & CSUs in norcal this summer.

^ OMG Deb. Come visit me at UC Davis!!!

I've been going on college tours this entire week.. when school was out..

I went to Brown, Bentley, Princeton, & Northeastern & more.
It was alright. Really liked Bentley's newly renovated buildings, but too bad it has a business focus.
Brown was somewhat a let down for me. I heard stories about police brutality against the students, and segregation.

It's still up for debate whether I still want to apply to Brown anymore.

... I don't know about the frats at your school, but here, many of them have you do academic work while you're rushing. For example, the Latino frat had each of their applicants write a bunch of essays about their history and culture.

It's absolutely nothing like that at most schools. They can't all be Ivies.

I've never ever heard of people writing essays during rush. That's the time a lot of people get in trouble for hazing or something, no?

updated list of planned college visits for the summer:
oberlin college / oberlin conservatory
indiana university / jacobs school of music
rochester university / EASTMAN SCHOOL OF MUSIC beaaaast!
northwestern university
boston conservatory with friend

top two picks out of those are indiana and rochester.

^ no more northwestern? :(

indiana's and rochester's music programs kick northwestern's in the face. multiple times!

idk. :z i know people that go to all of them directly, except oberlin. and my musical hero's musical hero said all the psychos come out of oberlin, lol.

Then I guess you byebye to the avatar.. one of my best friends goes to northwestern. I hope you get into oberlin if its that great.

lol. i does not care about the avatar. i'll change it after visits...

i have close friends in northwestern, rochester but not eastman, indiana, and boston conservatory, so i never know how biased i really am. i've seriously been miserable for the past month because of everyone leaving for college and i'm not sure if i've got my head on straight.

i hear the sun is never shining in rochester, haha.