Picture Perfect Bucknell

Don't let the large cemetery with bulging headstones detour you as you drive onto the campus of Bucknell University, located in small (uh hm, piquito!) Lewisburg, PA.  Only a mere 2 1/2 hours from Penn State, which was only a mere 3 hours from Pittsburgh (no, you can get there in three hours from Philadelphia -- really!), it is every college creator's dream, if there was such a thing as a college creator.  I think the Guidebooks call it "picturesque" which it certainly is.  Had it been sunny and maybe even ABOVE 32 degrees, it would've been every high school junior's dream school.  But we all know this weather is not for everyone, but that doesn't seem to detour those students already there.  And that doesn't detour Austin either, because he absolutely loved Bucknell.  Here are Austin's REVISED scores for schools on a scale from 1-5, one being worst and 5 being best: Allegheny - 4.0, PITT - 2.0, Carnegie Mellon - 2.3, Penn State - 4.3, Bucknell - 4.5.  So far, Bucknell is ahead in the race for Austin's fave raves in Pennsylvania!  He liked the size, the fact they don't let you decide your major until 2nd semester sophomore year, and that it's 40% greek.  He liked that, despite the weather, Haley Prickett and Beau Caillouette (Newport kids) still want to stay there and are loving it.  We had lunch with Haley and Beau and Haley also went on, and contributed to, our tour (see photo below.)  Her mom claims her clothes matched when she was a kid, but Austin and I both think she looks AWESOME and wouldn't change a thing!  Austin will need to pray a lot to get into Bucknell....