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Updating: I talked about this in the Random thread but this is the thread that I should have posted in.
We visited Brown last weekend and loved Providence. It was really hot when we were first walking around campus and we both got kind of cranky which was affecting our perception. It was move-in weekend so it was tough to get around campus. We took her picture with the Brown Bear and looked around in the student center.. loved the gaming room in there! We stopped in S. Stephens church because it was open, they were serving lemonade and cookies to welcome students back and well, I love old churches. We talked to the pastor there who told us the history and took lots of pictures. We did some shopping along Thayer Street and then went for a long air conditioned drive around Warwick. We had lunch and went to a small but very New Englandy art festival in East Greenwich. Then we went back to drive around campus and explore downtown Providence a bit. She liked the campus a lot better the second time we went. We parked and walked around by the memorial park at the bottom of the hill along the river where they do Waterfire. We were disappointed that it wasn't a WaterFire weekend. She loved that park. She's into photography so she was taking a lot of pictures of that area. We loved the historical yet artsy feel of that area. She said "If I go here, this will be my spot". Then we went to the mall nearby because we weren't quite ready for dinner but wanted to eat at WaterPlace. She was thrilled with the mall (she's a shopper) and liked that there was one so close.
She feels like she liked the Barnard and Columbia campuses better but did end the visit with "I could see myself here" so Brown is still on the application list.
The biggest irony is that for a long time I was encouraging her to give Barnard a shot. As of this moment, it is her first choice school but she also really enjoyed Columbia and Brown a lot and could see herself at either. The obstacle to Barnard before was that she didn't want to go to an all girls school. The biggest appeal of Barnard now is that there is such a focus on developing independent women.
It is marching season now so our next college visits won't be until mid-October when we head to Chicago. We probably won't get to visit Wash U or any DC schools before early acceptance/decision deadlines but she doesn't think she is going to apply anywhere early decision right now. Early acceptance isn't binding so she is going to apply to the schools who offer that option.
She's taking the SAT again on October 1st and hoping to raise her math score. With 3 of her 5 classes being AP and it being marching season.. plus her babysitting jobs, I don't know how much time she'll be able to put in to preparing. Calc is a lot review right now though so hopefully that will help. Geometry is the subject she really needs to review. It's been 3 years since her Geometry class. She was working on her essays over the summer some.
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