College Visits Options

[transcendentalis...]

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.

[transcendentalis...]

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.

[Melissa]

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.

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