Is Hillsdale the new Harvard?

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Anonymous wrote:How is diversity at Hillsdale?

Refreshingly, they make a point to NOT ask students about their ethnicity, race, etc. They don’t keep statistics on those things at all.

Why is that refreshing?

Why would I need to know what percentage of the student body is what race? Who cares? Why do you care?

The vast majority of people care. It's useful information about campus culture. Most people want to work and learn in diverse environments because workplaces and the world are diverse places. Diversity improved education and workplace experiences and provides more perspectives on issues. You make it sound like Hillsdale is the Borg or something. That sounds boring and uninteresting.

Their antagonistic relationship to this mainstream way of thinking is another clue that it's a fringe school that likely radicalizes students. No thanks.

Also, it puts out bullshit like this: https://k12.hillsdale.edu/k12/media/Documents/The-Hillsdale-1776-Curriculum.pdf?ext=.pdf

Hillsdale invented that? Omg.

A curriculum literally named after ignoring history of colonial America.

What would Pat Sajak’s daughter say, with her Classics study of 1776 BC?

DP. Question: WTF are you talking about? From the link, above:

The Hillsdale 1776 Curriculum
The Hillsdale 1776 Curriculum is a complete collection of lesson
plans for teaching American history, civics, and government to
K-12 students. Students who study using this curriculum learn
about American history from the colonies through the Civil
War at four different times during their K-12 years, each time
increasing in depth. The curriculum also includes American
history since the Civil War and American government and civics
for both middle and high school students

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Anonymous wrote:So Hillsdale has just under 1,600 students. That means each class has, what, 400 in the cohort.

It has a 21% acceptance rate. So, that's what, a total of around 2,000 applicants? Well, with a 62% yield rate (suggesting the self-selecting population), maybe call it more like 3,000?

Hillsdale recently boasted about a 53% increase in applications in the last DECADE. There are schools getting those sorts of numbers YoY.

Few people are clamoring to get into Hillsdale. It appeals to people desperate to remain in a right-wing bubble. That's all.

It's allegedly such an irrelevant college that you are reading and spamming this thread and googling random facts about it during a work day? lol

I am a Harvard graduate and independently wealthy. So I don’t work. I just thought it would be useful to piss on your ridiculous hype.

A school with 3,000 applicants a year isn’t making any leaps and bounds. It appeals to a niche audience. That’s fine. But comparisons to Harvard or real universities? Naw.

Such a waste of your degree. Good job popping the Ivy reputation bubble from the inside!

Have a seat, boo. Smarter people are conversing.

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Anonymous wrote:This is from 2020, but gives a sampling of what graduates go on to do. Pretty impressive.

https://www.hillsdale.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Class-of-2020-Graduate-Placement-Report.pdf

lol everyone who can’t get a job is assigned to teach at Hillsdale’s K-12 Charter School.

Aww. Spoken like someone who has been unemployed for a very long time.

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Anonymous wrote:How is diversity at Hillsdale?

Refreshingly, they make a point to NOT ask students about their ethnicity, race, etc. They don’t keep statistics on those things at all.

Why is that refreshing?

Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell. Very progressive.

DP. Actually - yes. Why do you need to know my race, or anyone else's race? Why do you insist on classifying everyone into separate boxes? People are people. Deal with it.

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Anonymous wrote:How is diversity at Hillsdale?

How is the diversity of your neighborhood. How is the diversity of your kids’ friends. And your dinner table guests. You phony.

I’m curious what you think that diversity is.

I genuinely don’t care about diversity. And neither do you phonies.

Matches your lack of caring about English language and logic. Good evening to you, Holden Caulfield

Are you 15:12? Wow.
DP

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Anonymous wrote:No school is Harvard (not even Oxford) but people are missing the point, which is that “woke” is destroying everything including the elite schools. All of the DEI and CRT garbage needs to stop. It is just Marxist ideology. It is ideological capture of higher education. The Ivy League didn’t used to be so far to the left. This mostly happened after the Vietnam War. The reason Hillsdale turns up in discussions like this is that they didn’t go woke or change their core curriculum after Vietnam. They continued to use a tried and true curriculum that worked for hundreds of years at the best schools, while Harvard folded to the left like a house of cards.

Exactly. Give me a Hillsdale any day over any Ivy or places like Oberlin, Middlebury, etc. No thanks.

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Yes

Merit focused and gets you into heaven

Highly big picture IQ

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Anonymous wrote:Never once in the history of mankind has Hillsdale just "turned up" in a conversation. It takes great concentration and effort to find a way to bring it up.

And yet, here you are. You must have had to concentrate and expend great effort to find a way to post over and over on this thread.

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Harvard is the highway to hell. Hardcore

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Anonymous wrote:This is from 2020, but gives a sampling of what graduates go on to do. Pretty impressive.

https://www.hillsdale.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Class-of-2020-Graduate-Placement-Report.pdf

Very impressive.

Seriously? Any school in the country could write the same fluff piece.

A report of where graduates are working is... a fluff piece? Okey doke!

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Anonymous wrote:It is problematic to be an educational institution, whose public relations strategy consists of promising parents that their children will not be exposed to certain ideas. Here are the books and thinkers and theories you won’t encounter, the history you won’t learn. No one is going to think your student is a “genius conservative” when they cannot participate in important theoretical debates in their field of study, because they have not been exposed to these ideas. This is the opposite of what a Harvard level institution does.

Actually, you have just described *exactly* what Harvard does. Precisely. How soon you forget that Harvard et al are the schools chasing off any speaker who doesn't toe the liberal party line. Those are the schools where protesters will shout down anyone trying to present a POV that the students (and faculty) simply don't want to hear.

You truly live in an echo chamber of nonsense if you can accuse Hillsdale of doing that while completely ignoring the schools that ACTUALLY shut down debate.

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Anonymous wrote:Harvard has weathered many storms. It might not be the best school for your kid, but it's safe to say it will be considered a top school for a very, very long time.

I’m really not sure about this. It used to be that if you met a Harvard grad, you knew they were wickedly smart - even if in some esoteric way. Now, you meet a Harvard grad, and you know they somehow gamed the wokometer for entry and are likely whiny and annoying . . . Who wants to employ the current crop?

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Anonymous wrote:Do they teach evolution?

Yes, of course. https://k12.hillsdale.edu/Curriculum/Overview/

I would have sent my kids to one of these charter schools in a heartbeat if there had been one near us. What a fantastic education.

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Anonymous wrote:The Hillsdale charter schools are outperforming public schools everywhere they are tried, as even the NYTimes has stated.

Cite?

Also, FWIW, would love to see the demographics on those schools.

The Hillsdale schools may outperform because they take the funding and high-performing (affluent) kids away from nearby publics.

DC shut down a Hillsdale charter from affiliating here a couple years ago. We can see through the marketing to the indoctrination.

If I had to choose the current indoctrination from the left in our public schools vs any conservative indoctrination in these charter schools, I would absolutely take the latter. At least it comes with an excellent education and no wasted time on "social emotional learning."
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Anonymous wrote:The Hillsdale charter schools are outperforming public schools everywhere they are tried, as even the NYTimes has stated.

Cite?

Also, FWIW, would love to see the demographics on those schools.

The Hillsdale schools may outperform because they take the funding and high-performing (affluent) kids away from nearby publics.

DC shut down a Hillsdale charter from affiliating here a couple years ago. We can see through the marketing to the indoctrination.

Well, that's DC for you. There would be HUGE interest in these schools in Virginia, to include NoVA.