over the last few weeks i've been to..
columbia, princeton, yale, & NYU.
i know that NYU is a really prestigious school, & some of their buildings are soo beautiful.. but i felt its kinda overrated sometimes.
like they dont really have a campus & the dorms are really small.. so they would recommend students commuting which can be such a dragg..
but the columbia/princeton/yale campuses were soo perfect.
haha the whole college visiting thing makes me worried-- theres a crazy number of smart people all around the world that want to go to the same colleges..

nyu is pretty prestigious; it's also ranked #1 by the princeton review this year for giving out the least financial aid. :(

one of my friends at columbia says that she was pretty appalled by the amount of dumb and apathetic people at columbia... ahah. it does have a beautiful campus though.. i do think there is someone on cb who's at columbia - heartquasm? i think her name's melissa.

pbear, what are you thinking about majoring in?

i mean, i want to do something medical and music (though apparently it's crazy to doublemajor at nwu), so northwestern is pretty ideal to me.

amherst is so pretty! my brother is there.. he loves it. not much sleep though, but he's happy. their financial aid sucks, though.

i'm thinking psychology to go into marketing later, but i'm so indecisive it's bound to change later. :/

Yeah.

Well, about the "dumb and apathetic" people, it really depends on what you're looking at. People have this notion that Columbia (along with other good schools) is filled with people who are very political, controversial, and above all, intelligent. However, while a lot of people ARE very involved, you always get your run of the mill "dumb and apathetic" people who don't do anything but party and get trashed every night of the week. It's to be expected on any college campus.


//edit// - and I read before that you were visiting Rice! I was part of the music preparatory program at Rice University's Shepherd School of Music back in high school. Their music program's pretty top notch. I don't remember what instrument you play, but if you're a piano major - there's this hidden hallway with 5-6 practice rooms and each of them have at least one Steinway grand. :D