Parents of Juniors: Protests and College Search
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Parents of juniors: are the campus protests impacting how your kids are approaching their college search? Depending on their politics (and perhaps religious views) and/or how colleges have handled things, any schools been taken off the table or risen on their list?
We are trying to figure out how much to weigh what is happening...will things settle down by the time our (now junior) is on campus in the Fall of 2025? Or- regardless of whether this particular issue is still boiling- are the protests and the way they are handled by the various college administrations reflective of something deeper (e.g., student body that the college attracts, political environment in which the college is located, ideology of administration, etc) that DC should be thinking of when they are applying? Interested in hearing others' thought process on how this is impacting their child's college search process. |
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| It will be over soon and everyone will forget about it. Just look at schools as you normally would. |
Anonymous
| Our DD isn't interested in any of the schools where protests have taken place, so it's not a factor in the search. |
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We live in NYC and my kid and I went up there to take a look (this was right before Hamilton Hall) and we were like, this looks a heck of a lot worse than what's on tv. It was really pretty limited.
Then we went to Yale and I said, when I was a student at another U, we had protests on our campus that lasted for two years (divestment) that was about 4x bigger than this and didn't disrupt anything. And the school divested. I think if you can go see this in person, you'll feel better. I agree with colleges that you can't disrupt the lives of other kids with your protests and they were quick-ish to call in nypd when it did. they could have done that a week earlier, but lesson learned. Student protests make the world better, historically. |