recent experience with Rhodes?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:For the pleasant, yet dim-witted children of the southern merchant class (You know the type: parents are periodontists, owners of an insurance agency that's been in the family for generations, landlord for a string of mini-malls.)

Nice campus, okay academics. Sort of like Sewanee, except located in one of America's most dangerous cities. Your kid will have a good time for 4 or 5 years, before returning to take a VP position at the family peanut processing plant.

Omg. Reluctant Georgian here, and you just NAILED the upper middle class culture. It's so sad and limiting. Don't any of them want to run off the join the circus or something?!

[Anonymous]

I am not sure the lawyers and government workers/contractors of the DMV are really in the position to throw stones regarding safe life choices. (And I say that with the awareness that I am one of the people who made relatively safe choices). I think Rhodes could be a great school for the right kid - someone like ACB who could thrive intellectually in a smaller environment.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am not sure the lawyers and government workers/contractors of the DMV are really in the position to throw stones regarding safe life choices. (And I say that with the awareness that I am one of the people who made relatively safe choices). I think Rhodes could be a great school for the right kid - someone like ACB who could thrive intellectually in a smaller environment.

Well, I am the PP who currently lives in GA against her will and knows this exact type - and I am not a lawyer or government worker of the DMV. I just have lived lots of places and think it's sad these kids get a taste of freedom and come right back to their small southeastern town to...do what? Marry Daddy's golf partner's son, have a bunch of kids, and get pissed at me when I say I can't join the PTA because I travel for work? They've been brainwashed to think there's nothing better.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My best friend's daughter graduated from Rhodes a few years ago. She liked it ok but didn't love it. It's very Southern in terms of culture (preppy, polished) and she was surprised by how many not-serious students there were, who seemed to be there to get a communications degree and maybe a social media marketing job before marrying a Southern gentleman at 23.

The campus is beautiful, the surroundings are dangerous, and the school gives a lot of merit aid.

Amy Coney Barrett is a Rhodes alumna.

And her career went terribly.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:For the pleasant, yet dim-witted children of the southern merchant class (You know the type: parents are periodontists, owners of an insurance agency that's been in the family for generations, landlord for a string of mini-malls.)

Ew, new money. Gross!

[Anonymous]

It’s fine. I know two kids there. One UMC, one old southern money. One enjoyed it a lot and one considered leaving.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:For the pleasant, yet dim-witted children of the southern merchant class (You know the type: parents are periodontists, owners of an insurance agency that's been in the family for generations, landlord for a string of mini-malls.)

Ew, new money. Gross!

This type is actually not new money.