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Anonymous wrote:Harvard yard’s grass is terribly maintained considering the resources available.
The buildings are copy and paste Georgian brick and not done well.
Cambridge is nicer than New Haven or Providence but Yale and brown have way better campuses
As for the vibes and kids — a lot of convergence with MIT
I don’t remember the difference between Harvard kids vibes/look being this different from BC kids 20 years ago but in 2024 they seem to be starkly different
WTH is going on with DCUM lately? There is a thread that trashes all the ivies as being run down and filled with geeks and/or asians, there is one that has a Vandy alum or two or 3 going off about the nerds and asians there. Someone went off that the Duke 2028s "look different" and look "not fun". This has to be coordinated. I have three kids , two at ivies and one at one of these others: the kids "look" the same as they did when the oldest started 5 yrs ago versus the freshman we just moved in --sure there is some geeks and nerdiness and there is a great diversity of ethnicities. It is not new. Why is this bad? The only difference in look between now and 25 yrs ago is less white. Is that your issue? If somehow you mean truly nerdiness not race, what in the heck do you expect? These kids are overwhelmingly very smart kids, the top 1% mostly, which is a significant shift from 20 years ago when the majority were not top 1-2%. These schools are also more filled with financially needy kids than they have ever been, with 50-65% on aid and a high % pell grants. They are not going to have the same fashion /makeup / demeanor as the way southern country club culture is. If it is "too geeky" (or "too poor" or "too asian") don't apply! The so-called geeks who are there and the new ones who get in this season do not need your kid or your attitude. My white mildly quirky to very geeky kids are having a blast and enjoying the huge opportunities, and my bank account is grateful for the aid we get.
I think what happens is that some kind of social media manipulation school sends the students out to practice here. Trolling us is just there homework.
I think this may be the death throes of all the hyperfocus on race.
It's not the kids, the kids are all right. It's the adults.
-Black and hispanic parents feeling like their kids are being targetted when they lose their racial preferences in college admissions, while ALDF preferences that overwhelmingly benefit white people remains largely untouched. So they characterize anyone that opposes affirmative action a racist, often these people are asians and so you have a bunch of black and hispanic people calling asians people racist.
-White parents feeling like they have to protect a system that benefits their kids because they see them being crowded out of even mid tier schools because the competition has gotten so tough now that more kids (especially more non-white kids) are applying to college. The competition at the high end (that DCUM is concerned with) comes largely from asians and the white parents justify their position by claiming that asians only "appear" to be more qualified, when in fact it is all the result of cheating (because asians lack integrity) while white kids don't cheat (because they are honorable and chock full of character).
-Asian parents feeling like their kids are being targetted because there seems to be an active attempt to limit the number of asian kids on campus. THe racism seems palpable when you have white people saying that too many asians would cause the white people to leave the institution, a very similar sentiment to what Lawrence Lowell said about the effect of too many jews causing the white people to leave harvard when he created holistic admissions.
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