Will conservatives stop sending kids to college?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Will conservatives stop sending their kids to colleges other than super conservative ones like Liberty? If so will it make it easier for other kids to get into places like Harvard and Yale?

Also if you are super conservative and your kid got into an Ivy League school will you refuse to let them go?

No. Harvard and Yale will as always be their first choice.

Not sure that will work out so well for them. How do you demonstrate interest in going to Harvard when you support the person that would very much like to destroy Harvard. Not sure the Harvard admissions committee is going to be impressed with the integrity of that one.

Charles Kushner was successful in getting his less than stellar son Jared accepted for the measly sum of $2.5 million!

Would they take him now? He worked for the person that is trying to actively destroy the University. Is 2.5 mill enough for Harvard to overlook that?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:lol this entire fight is about the fact that rich kids from Country Club Conservative families with middling grades can no longer get into the Ivies. Not smart enough to outfox the Asian & Eastern European grinders, not rich enough to donate more than the foreign money. The Jewish-American families are pissed off; it’s why Ackmann is up in arms about declining Jewish student numbers. But let’s face it - rich American kids these days dont work hard in high school. They are more consumer with social media and jetsetting.

Look at what the Trump admin is asking of these schools: they want the federal government to control who gets admitted, hired, and what is taught. Nanny State Conservatives want total control of higher education.

Maybe they just don’t foreign students coming over, paying nothing and taking back what they learn to their governments. Kind of seems like a great deal for them, not so much for the US. 25% of Harvard students are here from other countries. How does this benefit the US taxpayers funding it?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I work in high-level recruiting. Many, many of the biggest companies in the DMV area have blanket bans on grads from Liberty Univ, Patrick Henry College (the FBI loves this place, tho), Bob Jones Univ, Appalachian Bible College, and Grand Canyon Univ.

Liberty is a basically a Megachurch merged with a university. For some reason the evangelical schools don’t push out the same level of excellence as the BYU/Mormons and the Catholic universities.

Keep em stupid is the evangelical way.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Will conservatives stop sending their kids to colleges other than super conservative ones like Liberty? If so will it make it easier for other kids to get into places like Harvard and Yale?

Also if you are super conservative and your kid got into an Ivy League school will you refuse to let them go?

No. Harvard and Yale will as always be their first choice.

Not sure that will work out so well for them. How do you demonstrate interest in going to Harvard when you support the person that would very much like to destroy Harvard. Not sure the Harvard admissions committee is going to be impressed with the integrity of that one.

Charles Kushner was successful in getting his less than stellar son Jared accepted for the measly sum of $2.5 million!

Would they take him now? He worked for the person that is trying to actively destroy the University. Is 2.5 mill enough for Harvard to overlook that?

Unlikely. When it's time for his brats to go, I guess we will see the amount for the new price tag.

But why would they even want their offspring associated with Harvard anymore?

[Anonymous]

Most MAGA kids don't go to college in the first place, because their parents refuse to pay.

Wealthy conservatives will continue to send their kids to college with the kids of other wealthy people.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Most MAGA kids don't go to college in the first place, because their parents refuse to pay.

Wealthy conservatives will continue to send their kids to college with the kids of other wealthy people.

Just not Harvard or Columbia aparently.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:lol this entire fight is about the fact that rich kids from Country Club Conservative families with middling grades can no longer get into the Ivies. Not smart enough to outfox the Asian & Eastern European grinders, not rich enough to donate more than the foreign money. The Jewish-American families are pissed off; it’s why Ackmann is up in arms about declining Jewish student numbers. But let’s face it - rich American kids these days dont work hard in high school. They are more consumer with social media and jetsetting.

Look at what the Trump admin is asking of these schools: they want the federal government to control who gets admitted, hired, and what is taught. Nanny State Conservatives want total control of higher education.

Maybe they just don’t foreign students coming over, paying nothing and taking back what they learn to their governments. Kind of seems like a great deal for them, not so much for the US. 25% of Harvard students are here from other countries. How does this benefit the US taxpayers funding it?

First of all, international students pay their full tuition. That's why they are a cash cow.

Secondly, many international degree seekers end up settling in the US and pay plenty of taxes.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:lol this entire fight is about the fact that rich kids from Country Club Conservative families with middling grades can no longer get into the Ivies. Not smart enough to outfox the Asian & Eastern European grinders, not rich enough to donate more than the foreign money. The Jewish-American families are pissed off; it’s why Ackmann is up in arms about declining Jewish student numbers. But let’s face it - rich American kids these days dont work hard in high school. They are more consumer with social media and jetsetting.

Look at what the Trump admin is asking of these schools: they want the federal government to control who gets admitted, hired, and what is taught. Nanny State Conservatives want total control of higher education.

Maybe they just don’t foreign students coming over, paying nothing and taking back what they learn to their governments. Kind of seems like a great deal for them, not so much for the US. 25% of Harvard students are here from other countries. How does this benefit the US taxpayers funding it?

Do you realize how many foreign heads of state, finance ministers, judges, CEOs, etc. have Harvard degrees? That benefits the US and world peace--or at least it did before 2025 when the US understood the concept of ally.

Also, you seem to fail to understand that at a dozen large universities--including Barron Trump's own NYU--foreign students make up a *greater* share of the student body than at Harvard.

With well over 1 million foreign students studying in the US, education is one of our best exports. We are idiots to wreck that industry.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:lol this entire fight is about the fact that rich kids from Country Club Conservative families with middling grades can no longer get into the Ivies. Not smart enough to outfox the Asian & Eastern European grinders, not rich enough to donate more than the foreign money. The Jewish-American families are pissed off; it’s why Ackmann is up in arms about declining Jewish student numbers. But let’s face it - rich American kids these days dont work hard in high school. They are more consumer with social media and jetsetting.

Look at what the Trump admin is asking of these schools: they want the federal government to control who gets admitted, hired, and what is taught. Nanny State Conservatives want total control of higher education.

Maybe they just don’t foreign students coming over, paying nothing and taking back what they learn to their governments. Kind of seems like a great deal for them, not so much for the US. 25% of Harvard students are here from other countries. How does this benefit the US taxpayers funding it?

Do you realize how many foreign heads of state, finance ministers, judges, CEOs, etc. have Harvard degrees? That benefits the US and world peace--or at least it did before 2025 when the US understood the concept of ally.

Also, you seem to fail to understand that at a dozen large universities--including Barron Trump's own NYU--foreign students make up a *greater* share of the student body than at Harvard.

With well over 1 million foreign students studying in the US, education is one of our best exports. We are idiots to wreck that industry.

Between 2021-2024, China and Qatar poured a collective $29B into donations for US colleges. They must be really committed to world peace.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Most MAGA kids don't go to college in the first place, because their parents refuse to pay.

Wealthy conservatives will continue to send their kids to college with the kids of other wealthy people.

Refuse? They can’t afford it.

This is a prime example of the “out of touch” coastal elite. And the reason why MAGA exists. MAGA was a response to the rich democrats that for decades, demoralized poor rural whites with their propaganda.

[Anonymous]

This is happening. A friend who is a successful doctor, husband also a doctor, told me college isn’t worth it anymore and her kids are not going. They are conservatives but I didn’t think hard core MAGA. I was a bit stunned. FWIW the kids have/had Ivy League potential.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:lol this entire fight is about the fact that rich kids from Country Club Conservative families with middling grades can no longer get into the Ivies. Not smart enough to outfox the Asian & Eastern European grinders, not rich enough to donate more than the foreign money. The Jewish-American families are pissed off; it’s why Ackmann is up in arms about declining Jewish student numbers. But let’s face it - rich American kids these days dont work hard in high school. They are more consumer with social media and jetsetting.

Look at what the Trump admin is asking of these schools: they want the federal government to control who gets admitted, hired, and what is taught. Nanny State Conservatives want total control of higher education.

Maybe they just don’t foreign students coming over, paying nothing and taking back what they learn to their governments. Kind of seems like a great deal for them, not so much for the US. 25% of Harvard students are here from other countries. How does this benefit the US taxpayers funding it?

Do you realize how many foreign heads of state, finance ministers, judges, CEOs, etc. have Harvard degrees? That benefits the US and world peace--or at least it did before 2025 when the US understood the concept of ally.

Also, you seem to fail to understand that at a dozen large universities--including Barron Trump's own NYU--foreign students make up a *greater* share of the student body than at Harvard.

With well over 1 million foreign students studying in the US, education is one of our best exports. We are idiots to wreck that industry.

Our enemies send their people as well. (See Bin Laden family)

[Anonymous]

Most conservative I know are planning to work at a factory with their kids. They are not planning to send their kids to college.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is happening. A friend who is a successful doctor, husband also a doctor, told me college isn’t worth it anymore and her kids are not going. They are conservatives but I didn’t think hard core MAGA. I was a bit stunned. FWIW the kids have/had Ivy League potential.

We have advanced degrees, our kids have ivy potential too and we had this discussion for real in our family several months ago. In the end we decided that college is the best place to meet a life partner so we’ll still encourage it but for simple job reasons I don’t think it’s worth it. (We’re conservative leaning but not maga.)

[Anonymous]

The real answer to this is about Trade School's/Vocations that are becoming very lucrative and a great decision from a steady, quality job with good pay and long-term security compared to going to college, taking on big $ loans and not knowing what you're even majoring in or have any goals for. That's the slight trend that has happened.