Davidson: a bust?
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Anonymous
Oversized class of 2025 is gone, and new dorms are opening this fall. Housing issues are over. Notice that none of the articles mentioned come from after 2022. It's been three years. |
Anonymous
Construction or renovation? Seems like a very old building. |
Anonymous
Renovation. The building now looks like this https://amherststudent.com/article/lyceum-offers-new-classrooms-offices-common-spaces/ |
Anonymous
How ugly. |
Anonymous
“Dorms” as in rooms above random businesses, ruining the on campus cohesive culture. Amherst is really going a poor direction compared to when I was a student. |
Anonymous
"Rooms": they're apartments built specifically by the college. "Random businesses": it's above the Amherst College Store, which is, once again, owned by the college. "Ruining the on campus cohesive culture": Since you're an alum, I'm sure you're aware of the existence of the Zü, Newport, Seligman, Tyler, Plimpton, and Marsh, all of which are further from main campus than those apartments. Did those dorms ruin the campus culture when they were built in the 19th century, too? |
Anonymous
PP here. Thank you for the link. What a travesty. |
Anonymous
The town of Davidson is old and has a fair bit of old money sloshing around--but not ostentatious displays of it. But the surrounding area is the most absolutely gaudy new money LOOK AT ME!!!!!! LOOK AT MY MONEY!!!! displays you can imagine. We call them Lake People, and it's not a compliment. The proper Davidson folks and the monied Charlotte people generally consider Lake People to be uncultured noobs. |
Anonymous
One of the things my kid really liked about Kenyon was the apartments over the shops in Gambier. |
Anonymous
Get over yourself, and get out into the world. It's big and there's a lot to offer outside of the schools in the NE. I agree that this board is dominated by the idea that if a school is not in the NE, it's crap. My impression of schools in the NE is largely dominated by cold, unfriendly people who aren't welcoming if you aren't from NE (whether that means the Northeast or New England to you). |
Anonymous
Yes. Your point? |
Anonymous
Sure. Whatever. But look at it through the lens of a 19 year old college kid. Your kid may be different, but my DD LOVED the idea of hanging out with friends and classmates at the school’s private beach on a sunny Saturday afternoon in March/April. Sounds like heaven to a kid from the northeast who’s over cold and occasionally snowy “spring” days. And no, she truly doesn’t care who owns which McMansion and how tacky or maga they might or might not be. She sees it for what it is - a lovely off-campus perk she knows she’d enjoy. Seriously, sometimes a lake is just a lake and a beach day is just a beach day. |
Anonymous
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I love posts like this!! They 100% benefit my kid.
Seriously, if close-minded and obnoxious families want to bash schools my kid likes, including Davidson, and steer their kids away from applying, all the better. Same if their obnoxious posts catch the eye of similar parents who are also dissuaded from considering or applying to these schools. Different strokes for different folks! And of course, my kid would rather not deal with that kind of close-minded BS for four years. So keep these posts coming. They’re part of the self-sorting process - win-win! |
Anonymous
| HACK has been around for a long time. |
Anonymous
Plus, Northfield, MN and Williamsburg, VA in the first post of alternatives. |
I think that family will be very hard to please.