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Descartes
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Posted: Mon Mar 24th, 2008 11:57 pm |
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<Copied from a post by defyinggravity1.>
Guilford is a very pretty campus (from the outside). You pull up to a treelined quad area and it looks gorgeous. First I sat in on a begining acting class. While I liked the teacher, I got a negative vibe from the students. Upon asking a student for directions to the class, she responsed in a tone that indicated I should know where the class was. The students did not seem very interested in the class . At the end the teacher asked if someone could tell me about their experince at Guilford. This was in stark contrast to Earlham where kids had come up to me. I felt the fact that the teacher had to prompt someone to tell me about Guilford was not a good thing. The admissions office was very nice and helpful. We were introduced to our tour guides. Our tour was rather large ( around 15 people) and the guides remarked they were not used to seeing tours this big. While the guides were nice they did not seem particulary enthused about the school. The dorm they took us into was nice, but the lounge area was a bit sparse. The caf. was your typical cafeteria style serviced by Sodexho. Though the buildings are gorgeous on the outside, they are lacking on the inside. My aunt and I both remarked on the inadaequciy of the gym. It has previously been a YMCA, and still looked it, with narrow corredors that we had to file through in a straight line. They did try hard to promote community and had chairs and rocking chairs all around. As we walked we observed a group of girls on the quad with a Hookah pipe. Then were taken back to Admissions, and watched a video complete with music. Then I met with my admissions counsler, who was very nice. Sadly I will not be applying to Guilford and I feel bad since she was so nice lol.
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Canadian
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Posted: Tue Mar 25th, 2008 01:25 am |
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Guilford, in Greensboro, NC, is another school we visited on the grand tour last spring, mostly because of the write-up in Colleges That Change Lives.
It was very nice to arrive there on a beautifully blossoming day just after leaving the snow of Maine. The main quad is one of the most inviting & gracious I've seen, with curving walkways, lawn, and large trees. The surrounding buildings had porches with rocking chairs on them, well-used by students. All very southern in a truly charming way.
S was a junior, but I was surprised--given the distance we were coming and the fact that his stats were very good for Guilford--that the school would not give him an interview, overnight, or arrange a class. However, I arranged an overnight through a friend, and S stayed in a specialty house for environmentally-minded kids, which he enjoyed, and also went to a class with his host.
We watched our first Lacrosse game, competitive & exciting, and S was able to participate in a rugby club practice. The club is co-ed and while probably nice for socializing, not at all competitive.
One of our guides was Jewish and said that there is a reasonably active Hillel (or JSA, I forget) there. We had three guides, and none of them walked backwards, the only school where they didn't. Does this mean anything? It did make it quite a lot harder to hear them.
In the end, Guilford did not make the cut. I think it is a lovely school in many ways, and I like its Quaker ideals. S found it a bit too small and somehow too soft, as he was looking for a harder core of athletic and outdoorsy kids.
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defyingravity1
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Posted: Tue Mar 25th, 2008 01:36 am |
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I also liked the Quaker ideals and philosophy, like calling teachers by their first names, and no greek life, which is one of the reasons Earlham appeals so much to me.
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