Did you ever restrict your teen from applying to certain colleges? Did you have rules or boundaries?

[Anonymous]

DeVry would have sent me to the grave.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We visited multiple schools where the tour guides opened with their pronouns and/or a "stolen land acknowledgement." While we didn't outright nix those schools, we strongly discouraged them. Thankfully, DC felt the same way about spending four years in an environment dominated by insufferable woke SJWs as we did, and chose accordingly.

P.S. I know, I know: "Hope your DC enjoys Liberty." You're not funny or original.

Why do you object to the stolen land acknowledgement?

Do their parents make sure to put in in their real estate listings? That's where the kid has actual investment in such a statement. The school they attend is just a four year temporary stint. Such a statement in that context is has very thin value.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:- Or - did you allow your student to apply to anywhere they had an interest?

Whether it be due to the cost of attendance or poor reputation, did you restrict your student in any way from applying to certain colleges?

Yes, if I had an objection to a school for any reason, I voiced it. I did not want my kid to go to a predominantly Catholic school as we are non-Catholic (and not white also) or a women's college and I did not want them to go to Texas, a state where women have no rights over their bodies.

If your kids can’t grasp the concept of birth control, maybe they aren’t ready for college.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:DeVry would have sent me to the grave.

My financial advisor says the guys with the most money drive are the folks who went to tech college

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:- Or - did you allow your student to apply to anywhere they had an interest?

Whether it be due to the cost of attendance or poor reputation, did you restrict your student in any way from applying to certain colleges?

What are you raising idiots ?

No red states period unless you are too stupid to understand the changing laws.

Sending a daughter to old miss is absolutely insane

South Carolina for daughters omg wth is wrong with you as a parent?.

No your kid who got pregnant will not be crossing state lines

You can actually buy Plan B before they go to college and send it with them and condoms.

For now. Anyone who thinks they aren't trying to change that is naive.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We visited multiple schools where the tour guides opened with their pronouns and/or a "stolen land acknowledgement." While we didn't outright nix those schools, we strongly discouraged them. Thankfully, DC felt the same way about spending four years in an environment dominated by insufferable woke SJWs as we did, and chose accordingly.

P.S. I know, I know: "Hope your DC enjoys Liberty." You're not funny or original.

It is interesting that UVA tour guides used to do state their pronouns and do a land acknowledgement (toured in 2019/2020 pre-pandemic). They also spent a lot of the tour on the enslaved people that built UVA. It felt like 1/3 of the tour was about Jefferson’s moral failings rather than the education at UVA. Fast forward to 2025/2026 and the pronouns and land acknowledgement is gone. They pointed out the memorial to enslaved workers and that was it. Maybe this is in response to the DOJ probe?

This was emphasized on our UVa tour too. We saw it in the spring of 2023, so they continued it even after the pandemic. We're about as anti-MAGA as it gets, and even we thought it was a weird thing to devote so much of the tour to it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We visited multiple schools where the tour guides opened with their pronouns and/or a "stolen land acknowledgement." While we didn't outright nix those schools, we strongly discouraged them. Thankfully, DC felt the same way about spending four years in an environment dominated by insufferable woke SJWs as we did, and chose accordingly.

P.S. I know, I know: "Hope your DC enjoys Liberty." You're not funny or original.

It is interesting that UVA tour guides used to do state their pronouns and do a land acknowledgement (toured in 2019/2020 pre-pandemic). They also spent a lot of the tour on the enslaved people that built UVA. It felt like 1/3 of the tour was about Jefferson’s moral failings rather than the education at UVA. Fast forward to 2025/2026 and the pronouns and land acknowledgement is gone. They pointed out the memorial to enslaved workers and that was it. Maybe this is in response to the DOJ probe?

This was emphasized on our UVa tour too. We saw it in the spring of 2023, so they continued it even after the pandemic. We're about as anti-MAGA as it gets, and even we thought it was a weird thing to devote so much of the tour to it.

Agree with all of this. We are anti-MAGA and I am a bleeding heart liberal, but I was surprised by how much time our Georgetown tour guide devoted to the slaves who built the university and the fact that a portion of our tuition money goes toward a recompensation fund.

[Anonymous]

I wanted to stay on the East coast but was willing to go as far north as Massachusetts and as far south as Georgia. Connecticut was where my parents got a bit hung up: they thought New Haven was too dangerous (in the 90s) so they forbade Yale, and our Wesleyan tour guide was an obvious stoner so they crossed that one off my list. I ended up at Princeton, which I chose over a large scholarship at Emory and don’t regret.

My kids are 10 and 13 so we’re not quite there yet but thus far my inclination is to advise rather than restrict.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:- Or - did you allow your student to apply to anywhere they had an interest?

Whether it be due to the cost of attendance or poor reputation, did you restrict your student in any way from applying to certain colleges?

Yes, if I had an objection to a school for any reason, I voiced it. I did not want my kid to go to a predominantly Catholic school as we are non-Catholic (and not white also) or a women's college and I did not want them to go to Texas, a state where women have no rights over their bodies.

If your kids can’t grasp the concept of birth control, maybe they aren’t ready for college.

If you don’t understand women’s reproductive health then you should STFU.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:- Or - did you allow your student to apply to anywhere they had an interest?

Whether it be due to the cost of attendance or poor reputation, did you restrict your student in any way from applying to certain colleges?

Yes, if I had an objection to a school for any reason, I voiced it. I did not want my kid to go to a predominantly Catholic school as we are non-Catholic (and not white also) or a women's college and I did not want them to go to Texas, a state where women have no rights over their bodies.

If your kids can’t grasp the concept of birth control, maybe they aren’t ready for college.

If you don’t understand women’s reproductive health then you should STFU.

If you can afford to send your kid out of state, you can afford to fly your kid home for health care if they become pregnant, make sure they have an IUD, a supply of PlanB & condoms. Come on, people. Use your brain.

[Anonymous]

-Tuition must match in-state
-Either best school they are accepted to, or best program
-no evangelical-type university. Catholic is OK.

[Anonymous]

If I’ve met 5+ grads of the school that I considered a POS, I discouraged it.

So no Duke, Dartmouth, Boston College, or USC.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:- Or - did you allow your student to apply to anywhere they had an interest?

Whether it be due to the cost of attendance or poor reputation, did you restrict your student in any way from applying to certain colleges?

Yes, if I had an objection to a school for any reason, I voiced it. I did not want my kid to go to a predominantly Catholic school as we are non-Catholic (and not white also) or a women's college and I did not want them to go to Texas, a state where women have no rights over their bodies.

If your kids can’t grasp the concept of birth control, maybe they aren’t ready for college.

If you don’t understand women’s reproductive health then you should STFU.

If you can afford to send your kid out of state, you can afford to fly your kid home for health care if they become pregnant, make sure they have an IUD, a supply of PlanB & condoms. Come on, people. Use your brain.

Like I said, if you don’t understand women’s reproductive health…

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:- Or - did you allow your student to apply to anywhere they had an interest?

Whether it be due to the cost of attendance or poor reputation, did you restrict your student in any way from applying to certain colleges?

Yes, if I had an objection to a school for any reason, I voiced it. I did not want my kid to go to a predominantly Catholic school as we are non-Catholic (and not white also) or a women's college and I did not want them to go to Texas, a state where women have no rights over their bodies.

If your kids can’t grasp the concept of birth control, maybe they aren’t ready for college.

If you don’t understand women’s reproductive health then you should STFU.

If you can afford to send your kid out of state, you can afford to fly your kid home for health care if they become pregnant, make sure they have an IUD, a supply of PlanB & condoms. Come on, people. Use your brain.

I suggest you use your eyes and read up on emergencies in reproductive health and how doctors in certain states handle them (or don’t, by refusing life saving care). Hopping on a plane isn’t always an option. If you’re the parent of a girl you really should be paying more attention.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:- Or - did you allow your student to apply to anywhere they had an interest?

Whether it be due to the cost of attendance or poor reputation, did you restrict your student in any way from applying to certain colleges?

Yes, if I had an objection to a school for any reason, I voiced it. I did not want my kid to go to a predominantly Catholic school as we are non-Catholic (and not white also) or a women's college and I did not want them to go to Texas, a state where women have no rights over their bodies.

If your kids can’t grasp the concept of birth control, maybe they aren’t ready for college.

If you don’t understand women’s reproductive health then you should STFU.

If you can afford to send your kid out of state, you can afford to fly your kid home for health care if they become pregnant, make sure they have an IUD, a supply of PlanB & condoms. Come on, people. Use your brain.

Like I said, if you don’t understand women’s reproductive health…

+1. Hopefully the PP doesn't actually have a DD, so will never have to discover the real-life cost of such ignorance.