Any colleges not hated by someone here? Any college universally loved?

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Anonymous wrote:I think the small prestigious tech schools get a lot of love here. Olin, Rose, WPI, Mines, RPI, etc...

Gotta be really smart but modest. No one is going there to party, and being rich and stupid will not gain you admission. And if it did, you would fail out first semester.

Yeah, what’s not to love about small tech schools with 1500 social misfits and a hockey team in depressed towns like Troy? Barf.

I confused....are you saying 4500 of RPI students are not misfits? I have a problem with any school that defines humanities as human-computer interfaces. But, I suspect the students do no,

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think the small prestigious tech schools get a lot of love here. Olin, Rose, WPI, Mines, RPI, etc...

Gotta be really smart but modest. No one is going there to party, and being rich and stupid will not gain you admission. And if it did, you would fail out first semester.

Yeah, what’s not to love about small tech schools with 1500 social misfits and a hockey team in depressed towns like Troy? Barf.

I confused....are you saying 4500 of RPI students are not misfits? I have a problem with any school that defines humanities as human-computer interfaces. But, I suspect the students do no,

Yes, you confused.

[Anonymous]

Harvard is beloved of everyone. NOT. I have only seen POS people go there

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You can say the same for relatively unknown LACs (in the East) like Macalester and Lawrence. Even St. Olaf gets great reviews except for some light-hearted Snickers from Carleton alums.

There you have it. The secret sauce is being obscure enough that most people have never heard of the school, but selective enough that it won't be a complete embarrassment when the parents talk to their friends whose kids got into Williams and Amherst. The good news is that you can avoid constant DCUM shaming. The bad news is you'll be spending four winters in Wisconsin or Minnesota.

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Objectively, you have to respect what Hillsdale College has built up the last 20 years in flyover Michigan. Their endowment is approaching a billion dollars. No federal funding.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Objectively, you have to respect what Hillsdale College has built up the last 20 years in flyover Michigan. Their endowment is approaching a billion dollars. No federal funding.

Sorry, but any college that erects a statue of Ronald Reagan on campus is a joke. And it stays afloat due to donations from some of the same right-wing groups that try to buy state elections.

[Anonymous]

It seems that schools like Vandy, Dartmouth, UChicago, etc. are well liked simply because they are not discussed as much? Maybe I am wrong, but Wisconsin does seem to be loved here.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Objectively, you have to respect what Hillsdale College has built up the last 20 years in flyover Michigan. Their endowment is approaching a billion dollars. No federal funding.

Sorry, but any college that erects a statue of Ronald Reagan on campus is a joke. And it stays afloat due to donations from some of the same right-wing groups that try to buy state elections.

You clearly didn’t live through the Reagan Revolution. I can recommend many books to help you with your ignorance

[Anonymous]

[quote=Anonymous]It seems that schools like Vandy, Dartmouth, UChicago, etc. are well liked simply because they are not discussed as much? Maybe I am wrong, but Wisconsin does seem to be loved here.[/quote]

You are wrong. Vandy is attacked as a Southern finishing school for Duke/Ivy rejects; Dartmouth's weaknesses have been noted on this thread; U Chicago is reviled for its heavy-handed attempts to boost its applications and lower its admissions rate and the thirsty behavior of some alums; and there have been other threads where posters went after Wisconsin for being a frat-heavy Big 10 school with a drinking culture in a state that's slashed funding for public education.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Objectively, you have to respect what Hillsdale College has built up the last 20 years in flyover Michigan. Their endowment is approaching a billion dollars. No federal funding.

Sorry, but any college that erects a statue of Ronald Reagan on campus is a joke. And it stays afloat due to donations from some of the same right-wing groups that try to buy state elections.

You clearly didn’t live through the Reagan Revolution. I can recommend many books to help you with your ignorance

We're dealing today with the fall-out from the anti-government rhetoric of the Reagan/Bush years, as we witness the abysmal reaction of the USA to Covid-19 a generation later. Take your conservative niche school - Hillsdale - and shove it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Objectively, you have to respect what Hillsdale College has built up the last 20 years in flyover Michigan. Their endowment is approaching a billion dollars. No federal funding.

Sorry, but any college that erects a statue of Ronald Reagan on campus is a joke. And it stays afloat due to donations from some of the same right-wing groups that try to buy state elections.

You clearly didn’t live through the Reagan Revolution. I can recommend many books to help you with your ignorance

We're dealing today with the fall-out from the anti-government rhetoric of the Reagan/Bush years, as we witness the abysmal reaction of the USA to Covid-19 a generation later. Take your conservative niche school - Hillsdale - and shove it.

You don’t know what you are talking about

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Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:Pitt

Universally loved?

Well, except by Penn Staters.

I don't hate it, but I don't understand why it gets as much DCUM attention as it does.

It is just on DCUM. I am from Pennsylvania and while it is regarded as a decent school it is definitely not universally loved.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Objectively, you have to respect what Hillsdale College has built up the last 20 years in flyover Michigan. Their endowment is approaching a billion dollars. No federal funding.

Sorry, but any college that erects a statue of Ronald Reagan on campus is a joke. And it stays afloat due to donations from some of the same right-wing groups that try to buy state elections.

Left wing groups aren't trying to buy elections?

I thought the whole purpose of donating to political causes is to buy elections...

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Auburn

SMU

[Anonymous]

Duke is loathed.

A couple that seem to be well-liked are Davidson, Empry, CU Boulder and U of Washington, Seattle.