tell me about University of Tennessee

[Anonymous]

No dog in this fight but have met several people from this school and they loved their experience. They had the fun football and greek life and were well prepared for careers and grad school etc. Remember you don’t actually have to be miserable your college years. Kids are gravitating south because they are sick of the northern drama. Be happy if you hate southern schools because it will be easier for your kid to get into a northern LAC.

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Anonymous wrote:UT trying to be Auburn without the cute town and the business school.

UT has a cool downtown. Auburn has a tiny stamp of a town that sells burgers, sweet tea, and some pimento cheese. Thats about it.

Don't forget the lemonade!

That’s Georgia. Home of Chicfila.

FL has the sunshine and TN has the moonshine. Love TN!

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Anonymous wrote:No dog in this fight but have met several people from this school and they loved their experience. They had the fun football and greek life and were well prepared for careers and grad school etc. Remember you don’t actually have to be miserable your college years. Kids are gravitating south because they are sick of the northern drama. Be happy if you hate southern schools because it will be easier for your kid to get into a northern LAC.

This is so true. The southern migration is real.

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Kids from the Midwest are flocking to SEC schools as well.

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Anonymous wrote:No dog in this fight but have met several people from this school and they loved their experience. They had the fun football and greek life and were well prepared for careers and grad school etc. Remember you don’t actually have to be miserable your college years. Kids are gravitating south because they are sick of the northern drama. Be happy if you hate southern schools because it will be easier for your kid to get into a northern LAC.

Yep. It's gotten trendy with kids from my nice NYC suburb. All ordinary, happy, nice kids. Having a blast.

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Anonymous wrote:Can we please stop calling it UTK. No one in the south calls it that. It’s just UT.

Same people call U of I UIUC.

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Anonymous wrote:It’S iN tHe SoUtH!

There, got it out of the way.

Bigotry here!

A freshamn we know there that came from a pretty diverse high school said he was taken a back at the use of the N word "with the hard R" and not used ironically. He's a white boy from Virginia so maybe assumptions were made that they could say that around him?

UTK is very high on my kid’s list and this is the biggest concern.

It's a fair concern. I know one AA female who matriculated there from Florida (not Miami, but not the sticks, either) within the last five years and was shocked the casual misogyny and racism she experienced at UTK. She personally was called a B at least weekly and a C and N at least monthly (the N often in combination with the B), and heard the same epithets hurled at others much more regularly. She loved the rah rah at the school, but never felt truly welcome there.

The casual misogyny and racism (as well as ‘rah rah school spirit’) is real.

I’m sure you’ll find that in a lot of southern schools.

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Anonymous wrote:Stanford is the gold standard. Excellent academics with excellent sports. Vandy has excellent academics.

The exercise was a ranking by academic quality of SEC schools. Stanford was a hair's breadth from being conference-less and will be screwed when the inevitable ACC breakup happens.

The ACC is growing, not contracting. The point being you can have exceptional academics and athletics. The great schools aren’t gonna settle for just one or the other.

You are thinking about the Big Ten. The ACC may be expanding now, but their big draws want out.

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Anonymous wrote:Kids from the Midwest are flocking to SEC schools as well.

And kids are flocking to several Big 10 schools in the Midwest.

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Anonymous wrote:It’S iN tHe SoUtH!

There, got it out of the way.

Bigotry here!

A freshamn we know there that came from a pretty diverse high school said he was taken a back at the use of the N word "with the hard R" and not used ironically. He's a white boy from Virginia so maybe assumptions were made that they could say that around him?

UTK is very high on my kid’s list and this is the biggest concern.

It's a fair concern. I know one AA female who matriculated there from Florida (not Miami, but not the sticks, either) within the last five years and was shocked the casual misogyny and racism she experienced at UTK. She personally was called a B at least weekly and a C and N at least monthly (the N often in combination with the B), and heard the same epithets hurled at others much more regularly. She loved the rah rah at the school, but never felt truly welcome there.

The casual misogyny and racism (as well as ‘rah rah school spirit’) is real.

I’m sure you’ll find that in a lot of southern schools.

Quit pushing these old tired tropes. If you actually spent any time in the south, you would know that these are not true. All the racism is happening on campuses like Penn and Harvard.

Look, I'm from the South (GA and TN) and I hate stereotypes about southerners as much as anyone. I have known lovely people there my whole life and have lots of family there, so I go down regularly. I may love the region, but it's just ridiculous to pretend that there won't be any racism or misogyny there. I hear it all the time when I'm there. I have affection for the area despite those things and for other reasons, but that part isn't great.

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Anonymous wrote:It’S iN tHe SoUtH!

There, got it out of the way.

Bigotry here!

A freshamn we know there that came from a pretty diverse high school said he was taken a back at the use of the N word "with the hard R" and not used ironically. He's a white boy from Virginia so maybe assumptions were made that they could say that around him?

UTK is very high on my kid’s list and this is the biggest concern.

It's a fair concern. I know one AA female who matriculated there from Florida (not Miami, but not the sticks, either) within the last five years and was shocked the casual misogyny and racism she experienced at UTK. She personally was called a B at least weekly and a C and N at least monthly (the N often in combination with the B), and heard the same epithets hurled at others much more regularly. She loved the rah rah at the school, but never felt truly welcome there.

The casual misogyny and racism (as well as ‘rah rah school spirit’) is real.

I’m sure you’ll find that in a lot of southern schools.

Quit pushing these old tired tropes. If you actually spent any time in the south, you would know that these are not true. All the racism is happening on campuses like Penn and Harvard.

Look, I'm from the South (GA and TN) and I hate stereotypes about southerners as much as anyone. I have known lovely people there my whole life and have lots of family there, so I go down regularly. I may love the region, but it's just ridiculous to pretend that there won't be any racism or misogyny there. I hear it all the time when I'm there. I have affection for the area despite those things and for other reasons, but that part isn't great.

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Anonymous wrote:Of course it is. And you have spent zero time in the south. Have sent zero kids to southern universities. Yet you talk all the time about how awesome the academics are of the Ivies in Northeast. The schools that have the problems with the real racism and misogyny.

Huh?

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“ridiculous to pretend that there won't be any racism or misogyny there”

Just like you can’t pretend you won’t find those problems everywhere else in the country…

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Anonymous wrote:Of course it is. And you have spent zero time in the south. Have sent zero kids to southern universities. Yet you talk all the time about how awesome the academics are of the Ivies in Northeast. The schools that have the problems with the real racism and misogyny.

Who are you referring to? Because I’m the PP that said it’s silly and everywhere and I’ve lived in the deep south for the past 12 years.

[Anonymous]

Has anyone actually told the OP anything about UT? 🤣