Ivy League Aspirations Unleashed (NYT Q&A with Harvard's DofA)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Sorry but you can keep your all women's colleges and by the way, my kid is already at an Ivy...good luck with yours...but then again I'm sure yours will go to a seven sister...good luck with that

I deeply doubt your kid is at an Ivy -- not with a parent like you!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Those stories were not about liberalism. They were about sensationalism brought on by the media to sell papers. The colleges had no idea these situations would happen until the wo(men) were already students. The reason they go to a women's college is for safety reasons - women are less likely to beat them up as they go through the transgender process. This is why they avoid colleges that are co-ed.

Yes, but Vassar IS co-ed. Did the poster who said this was at Vassar have it wrong? Vassar has been co-ed for at least 25 years.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No one has mentioned a very delicate topic -- what about the issue of same sex partners and transies at the 7 sisters? The WSJ had an article about transies at Vassar about one year ago.

So, who gives a shit?? Co-ed schools have gay students and do you mean TRANNIES??? There are transexuals at other schools, too. Homophobic are you?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:DC is much more liberal than where I come from. That story was really odd to me. It seems some people are so blase her -- nothing surprises them. And, if my kid has a roommate who was a transexual - I would consider it really absurd to have a kid have to deal with. It wasn't just one person in the story -- it was a number of kids.

It is called tolerance. And it is not a bad thing.

[Anonymous]

Yes, Vassar is co-ed but still has its female history. Still more user-friendly for transgenders than a traditionally masculine coed school like Dartmouth (or any other Ivy), male sports powerhouses or a school with fraternities.

Anyway, the logical solution for them is to find a school that offers the fewest physical threats.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yes, Vassar is co-ed but still has its female history. Still more user-friendly for transgenders than a traditionally masculine coed school like Dartmouth (or any other Ivy), male sports powerhouses or a school with fraternities.

Anyway, the logical solution for them is to find a school that offers the fewest physical threats.

You mean separate but equal?

I am a straight mother of what I assume is a straight child (who knows) , but I am truly offended at the tone this thread has taken. If the Ivies are filled with the likes of what I have read tonight -- homophobic people who are threatened by young people with alternative lifestyles, I would have no interest in writing a tuition check to them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yes, Vassar is co-ed but still has its female history. Still more user-friendly for transgenders than a traditionally masculine coed school like Dartmouth (or any other Ivy), male sports powerhouses or a school with fraternities.

Anyway, the logical solution for them is to find a school that offers the fewest physical threats.

You mean separate but equal?

I am a straight mother of what I assume is a straight child (who knows) , but I am truly offended at the tone this thread has taken. If the Ivies are filled with the likes of what I have read tonight -- homophobic people who are threatened by young people with alternative lifestyles, I would have no interest in writing a tuition check to them.

Ditto all around, except I am not sure being transgendered is a "lifestyle". I don't have enough experience with it to know (no close friends who are transgendered), but I think it is not a choice. From what I understand, you feel stuck in the wrong body. It ultimately doesn't matter - I agree with your bigger point that this thread's tone - about a lot of things: same sex partnerships, seven sisters schools, any non-Ivy school, and transgendered people - is frightening.

[Anonymous]

This has gotten way off course. Not everyone wants to hear about others personal lives and sexual choices. There is such a thing as privacy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sorry but you can keep your all women's colleges and by the way, my kid is already at an Ivy...good luck with yours...but then again I'm sure yours will go to a seven sister...good luck with that

I deeply doubt your kid is at an Ivy -- not with a parent like you!

Don't be so quick to judge. Yes, thank God she is well-situated and doing very nicely -- thanks for asking!

[Anonymous]

Congratulations. It's nice to hear some good news for a change on these posts.

[Anonymous]

New question re: Ivy League aspirations -- I've heard fewer boys are applying to college these days than girls. So, I've heard it's actually easier for boys to get into college with the same scores as a girl might have. True of false?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Congratulations. It's nice to hear some good news for a change on these posts.

She was making it up, lots of people pose on DCUM. Seriously, she doesn't even know how to use ellipses....

[Anonymous]

Who was making what up Ms. Judgment

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:New question re: Ivy League aspirations -- I've heard fewer boys are applying to college these days than girls. So, I've heard it's actually easier for boys to get into college with the same scores as a girl might have. True of false?

There's a new college forum on DCUM. You might get a real answer there (instead of the snarkiness and posing here!)

[Anonymous]

Is snarky the only word in your repertoire? Trite.