Girlie AGDee's College Search Thread

[Sciencewoman]

Originally Posted by KDCat

Washington University is awesome. It's a pretty low key campus for being an academic stand-out. There's a decent amount of stuff to do in St. Louis. The campus is beautiful and close to a wonderful neighborhood and Forest Park. The student housing community is very cool. Sororities don't have housing, but the Greek community is pretty vibrant. Academics are top notch. The campus is pretty safe. It's a wonderful place to spend four years.

I did a graduate degree there. I really liked it.

I'm afraid you're rubbing salt into the wound...AGDee posted that her daughter was not accepted.

[AGDee]

Originally Posted by KDCat

The neighborhood around University of Chicago is very tough. I worked at the U of C hospital there one summer. The neighborhood problems do sometimes flow over on to campus. In the summer while I was there, some teenage girls stole a car and crashed it by my building; certain patients were gang affiliated and brought weapons into the hospital; someone was mugged for a backpack and a bike; stuff like that. Any campus in a big city is going to have problems, but U of C campus seemed a little dicier to me than most.

The campus is beautiful, though. The faculty is top notch. It's a very academic school. The students are very smart and very serious.

Originally Posted by Sciencewoman

I'm afraid you're rubbing salt into the wound...AGDee posted that her daughter was not accepted.

Yeah, after visiting U of C, she didn't end up applying there and applied to Wellesley instead.

No worries, she didn't have her heart set on Wash U and she's fine with not being accepted. Going on college confidential and seeing some of the stats of kids who didn't get in... it's amazing. She's in very good company in being rejected from Wash U!

[KDCat]

Originally Posted by AGDee

Yeah, after visiting U of C, she didn't end up applying there and applied to Wellesley instead.

No worries, she didn't have her heart set on Wash U and she's fine with not being accepted. Going on college confidential and seeing some of the stats of kids who didn't get in... it's amazing. She's in very good company in being rejected from Wash U!

Awww... sorry. And Wash U is like that. She did very well, if she got the interview. They have way more kids apply than they have slots to fill. Sometimes I think they take the applications for the qualified kids and throw them down the stairs. The ones that land on the third step from the bottom get accepted.

[Sciencewoman]

Originally Posted by KDCat

Awww... sorry. And Wash U is like that. She did very well, if she got the interview. They have way more kids apply than they have slots to fill. Sometimes I think they take the applications for the qualified kids and throw them down the stairs. The ones that land on the third step from the bottom get accepted.

Lol...great theory!