College, and the visits.
 

Well guys, Im nearing that age/year where I graduate from high school. Ive been looking into colleges for sometime now and Im going on quite a few visits during August and early this coming school year. Ill spend a week at the University of San Fransico, a week at Providence College in Rhode Island, and a week with my other cousin who just graduated from Loyola in Maryland (Him and his friends rented a brownstone down town overlooking the stadium where the Ravens play - it shall be sick). This should give me a big idea about these schools but I also intend to look into Penn State, Hobart William Smith, Villanova, University of Maryland, Madison, Virginia Tech (possibly), and the University of Georgia (a short list- its much longer). I have no idea what I want to do or major in...maybe Ill go undecided. What colleges do you guys suggest? I can probably get into all of the above no problem. A avg...and too many extracurriculars not to mention a shitload of volunteer work happy: so I am in good shape. Anyways, get back to me...and I know this will be useful to some others too.

Love,
RaNgeR

obviously, I'd recommend PSU. But what state are you in? I see that you're interested in stuff all around the nation...what is your budget like? Villanova is a pretty hefty price tag there. If you are not sure what you want to major in at the moment, I would suggest a large school, obviously, so you can have some moving ability.

What do you want in the college?
What's your budget?
Are you interested in any sports?
Do you care if you can come home only 3 times a year?


I visited the University of Maryland and it was very nice. I had basically 3 complaints about the school: 1.) the campus is realllllly spread out. It's huge. There isn't any transportation system other than your own two feet. 2.) Dorms---it takes freshman up to 40min to walk to some areas of the campus. The dorms were pretty small too. 3.) The food selection was pretty shitty.

I dont know about you but I prefer the small campus style where you know just about everyone and you can wake up 2 minutes before class and still get there early.

My family would be able to send me anywhere, regardless of the pricetag that follows. Sports really arent much of a big deal, I highly doubt I will continue on with tennis at the college level although I might be able too. What do I want in a college is REALLY hard to say at the moment. I havent visited anyschools so I havent gotten the feel of any at all, large or small, private or public. Do you know what Im saying...Ive visited a handful of schools. I was at Haverford for a few hours partly because my aunt lives in Ardmoore which is right next door to the Villanova and haverford campuses. I didnt like thow it was SO tiny, it was smaller than my high school. I live in Syracuse New York and spend alot of time in the city and on the SU campus. Im always there for the basketball games ect and my friends and I have pretty nasty seats at the football games . Ill be spending alot more time on the actual campus because 2 or 3 of my friends were accepted there. Ill be in the dorms and everyhting so sometime in the next few months Ill be able to tell you if I like the size or not. I wouldnt want to go there because its TOO close to home, there are some really good california colleges that Id look into, and Ive heard nothing but good things from my cousin who is at USF. She just got an apartment and absolutely loves it..she tells me the city is amazing as well. ALL of my cousins loved where they went, the one attending PC couldnt be happier. He says Rhode Island is lawless and all mob-run so you dont have to worry about much in terms of police ed: . Ill have to check out U of Maryland...that would def suck having to walk though throughout a campus THAT large. I guess its nothing compared to the Hobart William Smith Campus either. I wouldnt mind not coming home ALL the time either, 3 times a year isnt that great but I would assume I would make up for it during summer..who knows.

I went to the U of MD. The campus isn't really spread out, its just damn big. It is contiguous, which I prefer to the campuses that are spread out here and there through a town, like Chapel Hill. There are shuttle buses that run all over the campus. The only time that they are put to use is when you want to go from the freshman high rises to the bars on Route 1. happy:

It is a great school to go to if you don't know what you're into right now. There is plenty to choose from and several top 20 courses of study. The social life is great, ACC sports, 15 minutes by from College Park metro station to anywhere in DC.

You're right about the food though.

Did I mention the nice ass. Plenty of that walking around. Those other schools sound like good choices as well, just don't go to PSU or VA Tech. They're in the middle of nowhere, unless you consider State College/Altoona & Blacksburg happening places.

I always love a nice ass. Ill be sure to check it out Tom.

If you want the best partying come to Madison rock:
Thats really all I can say... the people are all really nice (midwesterners :) )
great academics, most of our programs are in the top 10 in the nation, gives you alot of flexibility. Beautiful campus, beautiful city, beautiful women, lots of booze.

Ive been reading up on it, it also sounds amazing. Isnt the Halloween party the biggest party in the world or something of the sort? Inform me happy:

James Madison! I'm gonna be a freshmen there next year

Western in Ontario = North America's second best party school.. but why would you go to college for partying... happy:

damn. whats the college with no grades, no finals, and coed dorm rooms? It starts with a "D"..... Damn I wish I could remember

Evergreen

nah you got busted remember, yourre going to jail for a very long time.

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I don't think so.

[quote="Short Hand":49fcf]Western in Ontario = North America's second best party school.. but why would you go to college for partying... happy:[/quote:49fcf]

went there a couple times last year..pretty good, but i wouldnt say 2nd best.

Its the third biggest after Mardis Gras and new years in Time Square

Edinburgh had the world's biggest New Years party in 04. rock:

Ryerson cuz i go there and that means you get ladies cuz i have em all.

pfft. Durham College is where its at!

Juj, tell me Madison stories

U.S. Navy is the way to go.

or DeVry.

haha I can give you a recap of my impressions of Halloween and the Mifflin Street blockparty.

Halloween:
That entire weekend people dressed up, the main party day was that saturday night though, our house got 8 kegs, little did we know we had an O2 leak so we had to walk like 8 blocks to the liquor store and get a new tube (I got to carry it back, those things are HEAVY!). SO we started the night at the house with a century club (power hour but 100minutes), then around 10 we packed the place with people and got wasted. Around 12:30 we had gone through all 8 kegs and cleared the party and headed to State Street (madison's main street lined with shops, no traffic allowed). It was THE most ridiculous thing I have ever seen, imagine an entire street a mile long packed with people all in costume, girls of course wearing very little even though it was freezing out. You honestly could barely move once you were on the street. The only peopleless spots were in a small radious around the mounted cops Madison had at each block. My good friend ended up pissing himself in a girls bed, then walking to the guys side of the dorms and passing out on a random guys floor, at around 3am we could see the tear gas rising over the street and the police turned on huge flood lights to prevent riots like the previous 2 years. It was a crazy night.

Mifflin Street block party is a lesser known madison tradition but every bit as crazy. It happens 2 weekends before spring finals start. The police shut off a 4 block section of Mifflin Street (right off campus, known for house partys, every given weekend their are atleast 6 or 7 parties on that street) to traffic for the entire day, just about every house ont he street gets kegs.. So you wake up as early as possible from you hangover the night before, then go to the street and start drinking at like 9am. The cops are only their to make sure riots dont start, but dont give out minors or anything, you can hav your beer on the sidewalk no problem. Alot of houses have live bands playing on their porches, Axe body spray sent their Axe girls and they were giving away stuff... Basically the entire student body is crammed into this street and into every house and backyard. The party lasts until dark when, of course, you go out and party some more.

As you can imagine, alcohol is a big part of Madison. If you dont drink and dont plan to start, Madsion is still a great school, I mean our academics are probably top 3 public schools in the midwest. Dont get me wrong, we DO work hard in school, VERY hard, their is definitly no slacking, I suppose thats why when thursday rolls around, we are ready to celebrate another week gone by. If you have a friday class before 1pm, expect to go still drunk. I remember a chem discussion one friday morning just sitting there telling myself to not say anything the enitire time or else my TA will know I'm still drunk... Come for the school and academics, stay for the people and parties.

That was a long post and I open at work tom... waste of a weekend when you have to get up at 6 every day... off to sleep...
EDIT: I'll post a few pictures from this year.. gimme a sec..

From Mifflin Party '04
you can see the cops are cool, that guy is wasted and not 21 :)
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Thats me on the right and my buddy on the left, that chick was gorgeous but we never did end up hooking up, lots of drunken making out though..
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Our bar at one of our famous wop parties..
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[quote=evenflow]went there a couple times last year..pretty good, but i wouldnt say 2nd best.[/quote:d50c6]

I know a few people there, they never sop talking about the partying.

Im visiting Madison for sure...and I do drink, its a good time. Ill check it out... The academics seem amazing and the parties even better. Post more drunk pics and stories, Im liking madison more and more.

yea im gonna be a senior this year...

colleges i've visted/going to visit and considering going to:
Marist (went there and LOVED it)
Marywood University (visited and liked it)
Muhlenburg- visisted and slept over a friend's dorm, didnt really like it.
James Madison University, my old babysitter goes there, said she loves it.
American University
University of Delaware
University of Maryland
George Washington University

and yea, im majoring in biology.

where do you rich cunts find this money.. I have had to bust my balls off for a year working nights full time to pay off my schooling...

GW is a bitch to get into, gl! Ive never heard of Marist and I have a friend who is going to be a frosh at AU. Ill visit him, it should be awesome. Where is Marywood? Ive heard very little about that college.

Marist is in Poughkeepsie, NY, its a great school. Marywood University is a sister university with the University of Scranton, obviously in Scranton, Penn. its a good school.

Marist is in Pughkeepsie...I live in Syracuse so its not far away. ITS WAY OUT IN THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE!!! It seems to boring since poughkeepsie is ridiculously small...

James Madison? midwest?

umm University of Wisconsin stupid:

why not go in state? shit, new york has some of the best colleges in the country

[quote="Old Reliable":1db23]why not go in state? shit, new york has some of the best colleges in the country[/quote:1db23]

Everyone from NY/NJ seems to either go to PSU, Rutgers, or Maryland for some reason.

[quote="Old Reliable":c6168]why not go in state? shit, new york has some of the best colleges in the country[/quote:c6168]

California and Virginia do as well.

and I thought we were talking about James Madison, not wisc

[quote=c312]California and Virginia do as well.

and I thought we were talking about James Madison, not wisc[/quote:d0f38]

University of Wisconsin's flagship campus is in Madison. JMU is simply hot chicks at a lame school. Kind of like Loyola of MD.

The University of Minnesota is good, but it's more of a premed school imo

[quote=tomxtr]University of Wisconsin's flagship campus is in Madison. JMU is simply hot chicks at a lame school. Kind of like Loyola of MD.[/quote:4f24d]

no, the school is not that easy to get into. but there are a lot of hot chicks