Any colleges you wouldn't allow your kid to go to?

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Anonymous wrote:UVA - really provincial
Dartmouth - conservative drunken frat boys
Cal Tech - a number of years ago, colleagues who attended grad school there told me that quite a few of their female students had been date raped. I'd want assurances that that had been cleaned up.

Current ambition of child, age 3, is to be truck driver, so this may be moot.

Or no one wants to own up that they bumped uglies with a geek!

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Any of the military academies and any school that allows ROTC on campus. I say no to militarism.



And I would say the opposite but DC is not athletic enough to qualify for West Point, the other academies, etc. etc. I would be very proud to have my son graduate from any of the service Academies.


+1. Very well said.


+2. I have two boys in college on ROTC Scholarships. The Army is sending my oldest to medical school. He'll graduate with no student debt and a guaranteed job. He'll owe the Army six years, but I suspect he'll make it a career. The other is a sophomore engineering major. I am so proud of them.

...and my husband went to VMI. Be afraid, pp. We are everything that is wrong with this country.

He does have debt....it is 6 years.

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Anonymous wrote:UVA - really provincial
Dartmouth - conservative drunken frat boys
Cal Tech - a number of years ago, colleagues who attended grad school there told me that quite a few of their female students had been date raped. I'd want assurances that that had been cleaned up.

Current ambition of child, age 3, is to be truck driver, so this may be moot.

Or no one wants to own up that they bumped uglies with a geek!

Thank you for your contribution to rape culture.

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Anonymous wrote:JMU. Them kids, all they do is drink.

Class of 96 here and I would love for my kids to go to JMU! I still have close college friendships and got into a great masters program.

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JMU is a fabulous school and I would be thrilled if any of my kids went there. PP is mighty naive if she (or he) thinks college kids don't drink on every campus.

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Penn State. This cannot be emphasized enough.

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What I noticed on my visit to JMU was how *nice* all the students and staff seemed. It just had a very friendly, pleasant vibe.

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Anonymous wrote:What I noticed on my visit to JMU was how *nice* all the students and staff seemed. It just had a very friendly, pleasant vibe.

Agreed, but I'm an alum so I'm biased. Folks tend to be very happy there. Guess that's because of the alcohol, according to the PP.

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Anonymous wrote:JMU. Them kids, all they do is drink.

Class of 96 here and I would love for my kids to go to JMU! I still have close college friendships and got into a great masters program.

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JMU is a fabulous school and I would be thrilled if any of my kids went there. PP is mighty naive if she (or he) thinks college kids don't drink on every campus.

Could I interrupt this thread to ask what's fabulous about JMU - seriously. DC likely would get in there, given what we've seen on Naviance, but we're having a hard time working up any enthusiasm for that prospect, other than the in-state tuition.

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Anonymous wrote:JMU. Them kids, all they do is drink.

Class of 96 here and I would love for my kids to go to JMU! I still have close college friendships and got into a great masters program.

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JMU is a fabulous school and I would be thrilled if any of my kids went there. PP is mighty naive if she (or he) thinks college kids don't drink on every campus.

Could I interrupt this thread to ask what's fabulous about JMU - seriously. DC likely would get in there, given what we've seen on Naviance, but we're having a hard time working up any enthusiasm for that prospect, other than the in-state tuition.

As a PP said, the students all seem very happy and content there. We visited several in-state colleges and at none of them did the students seem as grounded, helpful, and down-to-earth as at JMU. This was what sold my DC (a current sophomore there). In addition, the education is fantastic; several of our neighbors have kids who are JMU grads and went onto fantastic master's programs. The main part of campus, including the quad, is beautiful. The food, according to DC and friends, is delicious and full of variety/ethnicity/etc. And the faculty is top-notch; there such a feeling of support there. We've been thrilled so far with what our DC has told us about the school. Perhaps you should visit.

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Anonymous wrote:JMU. Them kids, all they do is drink.

Class of 96 here and I would love for my kids to go to JMU! I still have close college friendships and got into a great masters program.

+100
JMU is a fabulous school and I would be thrilled if any of my kids went there. PP is mighty naive if she (or he) thinks college kids don't drink on every campus.

Could I interrupt this thread to ask what's fabulous about JMU - seriously. DC likely would get in there, given what we've seen on Naviance, but we're having a hard time working up any enthusiasm for that prospect, other than the in-state tuition.

As a PP said, the students all seem very happy and content there. We visited several in-state colleges and at none of them did the students seem as grounded, helpful, and down-to-earth as at JMU. This was what sold my DC (a current sophomore there). In addition, the education is fantastic; several of our neighbors have kids who are JMU grads and went onto fantastic master's programs. The main part of campus, including the quad, is beautiful. The food, according to DC and friends, is delicious and full of variety/ethnicity/etc. And the faculty is top-notch; there such a feeling of support there. We've been thrilled so far with what our DC has told us about the school. Perhaps you should visit.

Thanks. We should visit, but we haven't yet, as all of our trips have been further afield and we keep saying we can visit JMU anytime since it's so close. But, of course, the clock keeps ticking, and the main thing we hear is that a ton of kids from DC's school go there.

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Anonymous wrote:JMU. Them kids, all they do is drink.

Class of 96 here and I would love for my kids to go to JMU! I still have close college friendships and got into a great masters program.

+100
JMU is a fabulous school and I would be thrilled if any of my kids went there. PP is mighty naive if she (or he) thinks college kids don't drink on every campus.

Could I interrupt this thread to ask what's fabulous about JMU - seriously. DC likely would get in there, given what we've seen on Naviance, but we're having a hard time working up any enthusiasm for that prospect, other than the in-state tuition.

As a PP said, the students all seem very happy and content there. We visited several in-state colleges and at none of them did the students seem as grounded, helpful, and down-to-earth as at JMU. This was what sold my DC (a current sophomore there). In addition, the education is fantastic; several of our neighbors have kids who are JMU grads and went onto fantastic master's programs. The main part of campus, including the quad, is beautiful. The food, according to DC and friends, is delicious and full of variety/ethnicity/etc. And the faculty is top-notch; there such a feeling of support there. We've been thrilled so far with what our DC has told us about the school. Perhaps you should visit.

Thanks. We should visit, but we haven't yet, as all of our trips have been further afield and we keep saying we can visit JMU anytime since it's so close. But, of course, the clock keeps ticking, and the main thing we hear is that a ton of kids from DC's school go there.

I'm the PP alum and didn't want to attend b/c it was popular among my HS classmates. I applied as a safety and visited only at my parents' insistence. Completely changed my mind after experiencing the friendly vibe other PP describes and loved every minute.

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air force academy - religious nutjobs.

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Anonymous wrote:air force academy - religious nutjobs.

The nut jobs are the school admins who allow Islamist terrorist groups to recruit on campus.

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Anonymous wrote:My own SLAC and any others that charge $65K a year. It's just not worth destroying our retirement, 529 funds,as PP said, or bankrupting our kids with hundreds of thousands of dollars of student loans. Go VA universities all the way. $9500 a year.

+1

I also attended a SLAC and while I don't have loans to deal with, I do think that I was sheltered there. At 17 or 18, I made the decision to go where everyone looked like me. I wish someone had nudged me to go a little bit outside my comfort zone.

Living in Virginia, I hope mine stay in state and go for some of the larger schools like UVA/JMU/Tech. I would be a little disappointed if they went to a school like W&L, which seems more homogenous (and yes, Greek), but if their hearts are set on it, so be it. I don't think I could forbid them from somewhere unless Liberty appeared on their list.

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^^About going where "everyone looks like you": that's the (almost lone but sometimes insurmountable problem with UVA, VaTech and JMU). There are so many kids at these colleges that the HS kids already know, they're calling the first year "13th grade".