Lafayette/Bucknell vs Nescacs

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Anonymous wrote:By car decal popularity in wealthy blue state suburb, never see a Wesleyan/Bates sticker, Seven Sisters schools invisible, occasional Davidson, more Holy Cross but no Colgate, plenty of Bucknell, more Colby, few Williams/Bowdoin never Conn College still Trinity and no Hamilton.

I'm aware of families with kids in my blue State suburb that go to Wesleyan, Colgate, Bowdoin and Hamilton and none of them have stickers on the car.

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Anonymous wrote:Kids of all political leanings should be welcomed at every school. Liberals believe in “their” version of diversity but does not extend to politics. So hypocritical!

Yes, that is a laudable goal. And I’m sure wildly progressive beliefs are welcome on the campuses of Liberty, Texas A&M, Baylor, BYU, etc. Who’s the real hypocrite?

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Anonymous wrote:By car decal popularity in wealthy blue state suburb, never see a Wesleyan/Bates sticker, Seven Sisters schools invisible, occasional Davidson, more Holy Cross but no Colgate, plenty of Bucknell, more Colby, few Williams/Bowdoin never Conn College still Trinity and no Hamilton.

Not sure why you keep making this point in threads or why you think it’s relevant. All this observation suggests to me is that you maybe live in an area with a large Catholic community and kids with good but not great resumes.

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Anonymous wrote:Kids of all political leanings should be welcomed at every school. Liberals believe in “their” version of diversity but does not extend to politics. So hypocritical!

College kids are allowed to push back against policies that tax endowments and cut research funds and fire professors over student complaints. Those things do damage to their educations.

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Most if not all of these liberal arts schools are run by liberals and more likely reaaly
Liberal. Moderate and Conservative grads from elite schools go into business CEO track or Wall Street. These college administrators have used their positions for last 20 years to carry out their political agenda. Not surprised that alumni giving rates have plummeted at these schools well documented. As a moderate my 2 schools have lost me as a contributor until changes are made and views other than woke are welcomed and many classmates have also stopped writing checks.

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Recent Maga policies have done nothing to help higher education. If you want to take resources away from college students and give them to billionaires and the prison industry then sure, then vote for conservatives.

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Anonymous wrote:Recent Maga policies have done nothing to help higher education. If you want to take resources away from college students and give them to billionaires and the prison industry then sure, then vote for conservatives.

And of course these college students and the children of these college students are the ones that are going to have to pay all this money back. So that's another great thing about the conservatives.

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It’s obvious liberal policies didn’t work. Based on books written by Biden staffers now cashing in and finally admitting Joe was not all in who was making the decisions last 3 years Jill or Hunter?

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Anonymous wrote:It’s obvious liberal policies didn’t work. Based on books written by Biden staffers now cashing in and finally admitting Joe was not all in who was making the decisions last 3 years Jill or Hunter?

Ikr? Who needs some lib college? The kids might learn about science and data and actually having evidence for supporting theories. Yikes. Stay away. They're going to be graduating into this job destroying crap economy anyway so don't bother. Go get that ice agent bonus!

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Crap economy. Apparently not an Econ major- Dow and Nasdaq are at record levels. Partially right not much demand for Anthropology majors from Oberlin.

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Anonymous wrote:Amherst, Wiliams, and Bowdoin will weather the demographic cliff with their $2 billion endowments. Colby and Holy Cross have 2 of the best Presidents in higher education. IMO, Colgate had 3,000 app drop, Midd smaller decine but rankings have nosedived probably more than any other LAC. Forget Conn College, Trinity has seen much better days. Bucknell
Lafayette, and Lehigh fighting it out for kids who see Pennsylvania as a destination(yikes). Wesleyan and Bates carving out the really woke crowd. Lesser prestige schools like Hobart and St. Lawrence in tough spots.

Not for nothing but I don’t think a lot of you have ever spent any time on Wesleyan’s campus. Unless by woke you mean DS can’t fly his Trump flag outside his fraternity house window without some pushback.

yeah hello - pls lets not make Wesleyan out to be some type of open-minded and balanced Mayberry. My kiddo athlete had threats carved into his dorm room door during 2020 election. And this is the most apolitical kid on earth - the wackos just saw all athletes as threats. I would think twice about encouraging your DS to be vocal about his MaGa leanings

No one said it was balanced politically. But neither are most selective colleges between Virginia and New England. My point is that it’s way over billed as some blue haired woketopia relative to other schools. You’ve made this claim before that the school is inhospitable to athletes and that hasn’t been my DC’s experience. If your “apolitical” kid wanted to embrace their MAGA leanings maybe they should have looked at W&L. not the schools fault that you failed to consider fit.

and you’ve made incessant claims about how wonderfully collaborative and supportive Wesleyan is for athletes - it’s just flat out false. The student body hates the athletes and it’s likely the most siloed clique-ridden undergrad population in the US

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Anonymous wrote:Crap economy. Apparently not an Econ major- Dow and Nasdaq are at record levels. Partially right not much demand for Anthropology majors from Oberlin.

The U.S. economy is facing a significant slowdown, with job growth stalling and a rise in the unemployment rate, according to recent reports from August 2025. Job additions were far fewer than expected, and revisions to previous months' data revealed a much larger loss of jobs than previously thought.

Doesn't that sound so great?

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Was that way 40 years ago at Wesleyan.

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only people more disliked at Wes than the athletes are the handful of frat kids - some poor kids check both boxes

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I’m sure the libs are hoping for economic disaster. Btw how many years did Joe and Kamala work in the “dreaded private sector “? Still no answer to who was running the country in Biden’s absence.