Is Hillsdale the new Harvard?

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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.

"Naw"? So charming and articulate, " independently wealthy Harvard graduate."
DP

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Given all of the controversies circling Harvard, are students going to opt for more tradition educations at traditional schools such as Hillsdale College?

Not unless they or their parents already have a right-wing Authoritarian mindset. The Hillsdale 1776 curriculum aims to destroy the humanity of its students. All in the name of Jesus.


https://www.salon.com/2022/03/16/coming-to-a-school-near-you-stealth-religion-and-a-trumped-up-version-of-american-history/

Coming to a school near you: Stealth religion and a Trumped-up version of American history

Exclusive: Hillsdale College's charter school network pushes "patriotic education." Critics say it's propaganda.

This is the second in a three-part investigative series on Hillsdale College, its charter school network and its connection to the national struggle over education. Read Part 1 here.

In recent years, Hillsdale College, a small private Christian school in Michigan, has quietly become a driving force in America's ongoing fights around education. A "feeder school" for the Trump administration, Hillsdale led President Trump's controversial 1776 Commission and serves as a testing ground for the right's most ambitious ideas: For instance, that diversity erodes national unity, that Vladimir Putin is a populist hero and that conservatives should lure so many children out of public schools that the entire system collapses.

Hillsdale has inconspicuously been building a network of "classical education" charter schools, which use public tax dollars to teach that the U.S. was founded on "Judeo-Christian" principles and that progressivism is fundamentally anti-American. In January, Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee announced plans to partner with Hillsdale to launch as many as 50 such schools, which public education advocates fear could be a tipping point in the privatization battle.

In this three-part series, Salon looks at Hillsdale's multifaceted and far-reaching role in shaping and disseminating the ideas and strategies that power the right. In our first installment, we met Hillsdale president Larry Arnn, a Winston Churchill scholar who led Trump's short-lived 1776 Commission and has used his connections to right-wing thought leaders like Ginni Thomas and Betsy DeVos to turn his school into a political powerhouse. He has described education as a "weapon" in the conservative war to reclaim America....

DP. It's beyond amusing that you're trying oh so hard to smear a conservative school... by using a FAR LEFT source. And you expect to be taken seriously?

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[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It’s the perfect school for proper old WASPs turned Christo-fascist. It will never be Harvard. And I hate Harvard too.

I'd actually bet on Hillsdale becoming a new Harvard over any other college. It has really strong name rec (for its size), it has a lot of influential alums (pound for pound), it already has a $1 billion endowment, and their K-12 charters are feeders. Imagine if more mega rich keep sending them a boatload. Imagine if a mega rich donor or family gives a Bloomberg-sized $1 billion donation in the near future. The more they grow the endowment, they can give sharp Conservative kids full ride scholarships like Regis High School in Manhattan. Hillsdale can become a factory pumping out genius Conservative kids groomed for law, politics and media. Land is cheap in that region of Michigan, there is no limit to their expansion.

You're never going to "fix" the Ivies. They are too full of entrenched wackos.

The ivies upset me because they pretend to be bastions of deep though and equality but they primarily cater to wealthy and connected people. They’ve educated and unleashed some of the worst of humankind on our country because of it (looking at you DeSantis, Cruz, and what’s his face that cheered on the insurrectionists- just ti name a few)

Hillsdale is no different except that they don’t even pretend to care about equality.

F all these places giving spots to people whose resumes clearly show their extremism and sociopathic tendencies.

Ooh, now tell us about the extremism and sociopathy rife among the LWNJs you so admire!
DP

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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.

Nope. Maybe in rural VA hillbilly land.

NoVA rejects religious extremism.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP and other Hillsdale Promoters here ~ you do Hillsdale NO favors by posting. This is a horrible approach for developing good press or good will towards the university. This approach just looks ignorant.

Not the OP, but what are you babbling about? Hillsdale is a college like any other, and as such, it is appropriate to discuss on this forum. You seem unusually triggered. Perhaps a break from DCUM would do you good.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Ugh. Your use of "boo" is not endearing. Quite the opposite.
DP

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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?

+100
So glad the entire world is seeing the Ivy-league unmasking in real time.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Nope. Maybe in rural VA hillbilly land.

NoVA rejects religious extremism.

There is nothing religiously extremist about Hillsdale. Unless you're an atheist, of course. There are plenty of thriving Christian schools in NoVA. You must not get out of your urban hellscape much, if at all.

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I've never heard of Hillsdale

Guessing its some religious extremist school like Liberty

And then the far right will say it's Harvard or MIT or Stanford.

Show me one research paper that has ever cited, what is it?, Hillsdale.

What state is this "school" in? Legit have never heard of it

[Anonymous]

I get stuff from Hillsdale in the mail, is this the same place?

[Anonymous]

Salon lol

[Anonymous]

The Hillsdale charter schools use a lottery. The wait lists are thousands of applicants long.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Ugh. Your use of "boo" is not endearing. Quite the opposite.
DP

Hint: I wasn’t trying to be “endearing.”

[Anonymous]

There is a new article on grade inflation at Harvard vs Hillsdale at the WSJ. So I guess nobody is comparing them.

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The Princeton Review's The Best 384 Colleges 2023 ranked Hillsdale as first for "most engaged in community service," seventh for "students love these colleges," eighth for "professors get high marks," and thirteenth for "students study the most. (Source:Wiki).