Elite schools with down to earth students

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My kid was interested in Rice but no longer — Texas has taken a sharp turn in the wrong direction and she is no longer interested in the school.

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How is 30/31 ACT in the running for an elite school? My DC had a 33 and the counselor said this was what they needed for schools in the USNW 30-50 range.

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Anonymous wrote:So, only liberal arts colleges??

Maybe not only liberal arts colleges, but it stands to reason that with their smaller sizes, they might be able to select for a particular ethos in the student body and then attract new students on that basis. So if 80% of students at a 2000-person school are down-to-earth, that's pretty pervasive in the student body, even if it's only 1,6000 people. As someone else said, you can no doubt find many down-to-earth students at large universities as well. If 10% of students at a 40,000-person university are down-to-earth, that's a larger number. But do they pervade the school? Probably less likely.

80% of students are down to earth, but have parents willing and able to afford a liberal arts education for their children? That seems very unlikely to me.

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Florida
Georgia
Maryland
Texas
UNC

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Anonymous wrote:My kid was interested in Rice but no longer — Texas has taken a sharp turn in the wrong direction and she is no longer interested in the school.

Houston and Rice Village/Med Center in particular is a pretty liberal area...

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Anonymous wrote:My kid was interested in Rice but no longer — Texas has taken a sharp turn in the wrong direction and she is no longer interested in the school.

Houston and Rice Village/Med Center in particular is a pretty liberal area...

But who wants to do anything in Texas? If you want to work on either Coast, Texas is not helpful on your resume.

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Anonymous wrote:My kid was interested in Rice but no longer — Texas has taken a sharp turn in the wrong direction and she is no longer interested in the school.

Houston and Rice Village/Med Center in particular is a pretty liberal area...

Doesn't matter if you have a hoard of gun toting morons chasing you down at the women's health clinic.

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Anonymous wrote:Tufts

No. This actually made me LOL.

I don’t know why. My DH graduated from Tufts and he totally down to earth, into hiking and camping and is a huge do-gooder in the world (job, activities). I am high maintenance and he is so easy going. Our DD is there now and she is also very down to earth, nice, caring, also a do-gooder who likes to collaborate instead of compete. Again she doesn’t get that from me!

Or maybe you are LOL at the “elite” part. Maybe it isn’t “elite” but it is a great school and hard to get into at 11% acceptance.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My kid was interested in Rice but no longer — Texas has taken a sharp turn in the wrong direction and she is no longer interested in the school.

Houston and Rice Village/Med Center in particular is a pretty liberal area...

Doesn't matter if you have a hoard of gun toting morons chasing you down at the women's health clinic.

If you're not from Texas, you have no reason to get any medical procedures done there. And you can offer any friends who might need such procedures a weekend visiting your pro-choice parents.

If you don't want to be in Houston, where the average temperature is "Steam," fine. But privileged White kids flapping their hands and saying, "Ooooh, no, I'm too liberal for Texas!" are making Molly Ivins spin in her grave.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My kid was interested in Rice but no longer — Texas has taken a sharp turn in the wrong direction and she is no longer interested in the school.

Houston and Rice Village/Med Center in particular is a pretty liberal area...

But who wants to do anything in Texas? If you want to work on either Coast, Texas is not helpful on your resume.

Really? That comes as a surprise to me as a Texas native who has worked in LA, NY and DC. When I interview candidates I'm always delighted to see a Texas connection on their resumes.

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Anonymous wrote:Not Rice. Isn’t elite.

What is the cutoff for Elite institutions?
Cornell?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So, only liberal arts colleges??

Lots of people called out STEM/engineering schools early on; they tend to be hard enough no one has time for drama and the faculty encourages collaboration. (I +1'd a post for MIT but I think someone else called out CalTech and Harvey Mudd and I'd believe it.)

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Faber

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My kid was interested in Rice but no longer — Texas has taken a sharp turn in the wrong direction and she is no longer interested in the school.

Houston and Rice Village/Med Center in particular is a pretty liberal area...

Doesn't matter if you have a hoard of gun toting morons chasing you down at the women's health clinic.

If you're not from Texas, you have no reason to get any medical procedures done there. And you can offer any friends who might need such procedures a weekend visiting your pro-choice parents.

If you don't want to be in Houston, where the average temperature is "Steam," fine. But privileged White kids flapping their hands and saying, "Ooooh, no, I'm too liberal for Texas!" are making Molly Ivins spin in her grave.

I am the PP whose daughter is no longer interested in Rice. We aren’t white. Not sure why you assumed we are??

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My kid was interested in Rice but no longer — Texas has taken a sharp turn in the wrong direction and she is no longer interested in the school.

Houston and Rice Village/Med Center in particular is a pretty liberal area...

Doesn't matter if you have a hoard of gun toting morons chasing you down at the women's health clinic.

If you're not from Texas, you have no reason to get any medical procedures done there. And you can offer any friends who might need such procedures a weekend visiting your pro-choice parents.

If you don't want to be in Houston, where the average temperature is "Steam," fine. But privileged White kids flapping their hands and saying, "Ooooh, no, I'm too liberal for Texas!" are making Molly Ivins spin in her grave.

I am the PP whose daughter is no longer interested in Rice. We aren’t white. Not sure why you assumed we are??

They’re racist!