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CardinalFang
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Posted: Fri Mar 28th, 2008 01:55 pm |
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Following up on something mentioned in the acceptance thread...
Parents, if you were going to pick a college for yourself, where would you go?
I like the small LACs my son is looking at, but brrrr, they are in such cold places. I wouldn't go anywhere as cold as Minnesota, Wisconsin or Maine.
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RMmom
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Posted: Fri Mar 28th, 2008 02:36 pm |
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| I went to UCLA 25 years ago and I would go there again. I loved every minute of my time there. Of course, I don't think I could get in today. It is so much more competitive than it was 25 years ago.
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Posted: Fri Mar 28th, 2008 02:49 pm |
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My two favorites - Vassar and Muhlenberg. Of course, I've grown to love Rochester, too, but at least this winter!!!
It's just so frustrating to watch d not take advantage of everything that's there! I'd love to shake her and say, "You'll regret it!"
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Posted: Fri Mar 28th, 2008 02:58 pm |
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Yale (it was not coed in my day, but I dated someone who went there and was jealous)
UNC-Chapel Hill (instead, I want to retire there)
University of Wisconsin
I have a warm spot in my heart for the place I DID go: Mount Holyoke. I didn't feel that way for a few years afterward, but I've come to realize it was good for me.
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DesperateDad
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Posted: Fri Mar 28th, 2008 03:30 pm |
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in alpha order:
Dartmouth, Princeton, U.Virginia & then the local junior college bcos I'd probably flunk out of the others.
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Posted: Fri Mar 28th, 2008 03:49 pm |
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I would love to go to Carleton - in the summer. ;-)
It's the LACs that really appeal to me, so I'll take two D didn't choose (and I still think about) - Rhodes and Hamilton.
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WestrnMom
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Posted: Fri Mar 28th, 2008 04:00 pm |
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Definitely a LAC over my big public university, without question. Which one depends on where I could get in. I had great test scores but I wasn't an A+ student. Although if I were growing up now, I might be. At the time it wasn't that competitive nor were grades nearly as important as they are now.
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Posted: Fri Mar 28th, 2008 04:09 pm |
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I'm much more interested in college sports now than when I was an actual student, so I'd pick a school with big spirit.
I think either Penn State or the University of Michigan would suit me well.
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Posted: Fri Mar 28th, 2008 04:33 pm |
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I wouldn't go back to my college days if you paid me.
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Chedva
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Posted: Fri Mar 28th, 2008 04:45 pm |
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| No, outwest, neither would I. I just want to be able to spend 4 years in college now!
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MaizeBlue
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Posted: Fri Mar 28th, 2008 05:24 pm |
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Another Bruin here. I wouldn't change that choice for the kid I was then. I did some studying, I think, but mostly went to football  and basketball games, work, and parties . I was itching to get out of small CA farming town and get to the big city! I was ignorant of any schools outside of the CSU's and UC's. For the kid I am now, I would like a redo at a science-happy LAC (Carleton, Harvey Mudd, Smith, Haverford).
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Posted: Fri Mar 28th, 2008 05:44 pm |
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I would love to go to Carleton, even in the winter.
When schools started sending mailings S's junior year, I asked S if we could send back the info card from Carleton, because I had wanted to go there when I was applying. (My dad, very generously, said he'd pay for our state U and if I wanted to go somewhere else I'd have to figure out how to swing it. )
Oh, and I have to disclose that the reason I wanted to go to Carleton was that Seventeen magazine had done one of its huge August campus issue photo shoots there, and I thought it looked perfect. Sheesh.
S kept Carleton on his list for his own reasons--none of which, I'm sure, concerned fashion magazine layouts; I asked him, wanting to make sure it wasn't on there for me (as were some schools his dad liked, sigh).Last edited on Fri Mar 28th, 2008 05:48 pm by limner
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Posted: Fri Mar 28th, 2008 05:49 pm |
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| I would go to Brown. We'll ignore the fact that they would never have taken me!
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Posted: Fri Mar 28th, 2008 07:51 pm |
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I would go to Vassar, Amherst, Yale or Bowdoin. On our last visit to Vassar, while leisurely strolling through the Shakespeare Garden, my husband and I were trying to figure out whether there was any way he could get a job on the landscaping crew there after he retires from his current job. I think we would almost pay them to let him have the job 
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Posted: Fri Mar 28th, 2008 08:07 pm |
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Does the original question assume I'd be 18 again, or do I pick where I'd go now?
If I were to head back to my HS senior year:
I'd explore several small private colleges and universities (and their financial aid policies), rather than the large state u. But in all likelihood I'd stay close to home.
Now in my senior years:
I'd be heading to a warmer climate for a small private university.
If we are giving out do-overs, I'd get way more involved than I did the first time.
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HijinksAndSue
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Posted: Sat Mar 29th, 2008 02:46 am |
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This is a great question ...
I went to Amherst and LOVED LOVED LOVED it (even though I had absolutely no intention of applying there to start with but stopped by there to interview on our way to Williams and was accepted by the dean at my interview but had to commit right then and there). But I'd NEVER get in there now with the same grades/scores, etc. I had then (many factors worked in my favor at the time).
So that would probably still be tops on my list ...
Otherwise I'd still want to go to a small, warm (in atmosphere, not necessarily climate) and liberal LAC and maybe someplace a little more counterculture than Amherst ... I think Bard would have appealed to me, ditto Middlebury or Bates.
I would also put Occidental on that list ...
Ellenrch, though I know you're probably about 30 years younger than they were (judging by the fact that you must be very slightly older than I am, if Yale was still all guys when you were applying), my mom AND aunt both went to Holyoke! GORGEOUS campus and everyone there seemed really happy.
Last edited on Sat Mar 29th, 2008 02:47 am by HijinksAndSue
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leftcoast
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Posted: Sat Mar 29th, 2008 04:22 am |
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I wanna go back to Berkeley!!!
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Descartes
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Posted: Sat Mar 29th, 2008 03:48 pm |
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HijinksAndSue wrote: I went to Amherst and LOVED LOVED LOVED it (even though I had absolutely no intention of applying there to start with but stopped by there to interview on our way to Williams and was accepted by the dean at my interview but had to commit right then and there).
Woah! Can you imagine being offered on-the-spot admission nowadays?
If I recall from your previous posts, HiJinks, you started at Amherst soon after they went coed. It sounds like they were suddenly very serious about getting qualified female students at the time.
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Posted: Sat Mar 29th, 2008 03:59 pm |
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In retrospect I could have enjoyed so many different colleges. Coming from a suburban Los Angeles public high school, and being "jockie" in my own way (track), in some ways I wasn't prepared for the intellectuality of Reed. By that I mean I didn't have as much background in serious areas of inquiry, so on my first pass through foundational literatures (the "Western canon") I could only skim the surface of the issues.
So what would I do now, if I could go back to college? (Forget what would I do if I were age 16 again! I turned 17 in April of my senior year). Well I would go back to Reed, and read all those Hum 110 and later works over again (including some that I truly just had time to skim), from the perpective I've gained over the decades. Oh to have the time to read the classics again! And if I could I'd take that wonderful calligraphy course that I wanted to take but didn't make time for (the one that Steve Jobs praises and to which he attributes his decision to give Apple computers an artistic font instead of the old blocky IBM look). And I'd study Greek. Come to think of it, maybe I'll do this some day.
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Posted: Sat Mar 29th, 2008 07:05 pm |
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I think I would head straight for one of these three: Reed, Carleton or Beloit. (Assuming they'd let me in!  )
All three were on my radar way back in the dark ages when I was applying to college, but none were realistic options for me back then for family reasons.
But, if I had to do it all over again....
Heck, since my kids will be going to two of the three, I guess in a sense, I am doing it all over again.
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