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

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Anonymous wrote:UDC or GWU - city schools stink...think green space

Green space? Seriously?
How about Columbia? Although there's no chance your country bumpkin prodigy will ever get in.

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Rural schools, especially land grant ag schools, are great for those seeking a career in agriculture or environmental studies. For those pursuing city-type careers, city schools are better.

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Anonymous wrote:^^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".

I literally knew everyone in my class by sophomore year at my small LAC. I totally understand the interest in a larger school where there is more variety. UVA, Tech, and JMU are BIG schools and even if some think their student bodies look the same, that just isn't possible with their size.

Well then I guess I don't know why they call it 13th grade.

I think it's probably a bit of a defense mechanism to deal with assholes who denigrate their choice or point out how many kids from their HS are going there.

I think it's because they'll know literally hundreds of kids before they get there. Lots of our neighbor's kids have been in school together since Kindergarten and they've played on NoVa-wide sports teams for almost 10 years (so they know lots more kids than just their local schools) and they joke that they're going off to 13th grade together.

Seriously? How often are these kids really going to see each other once at a large college campus? I went to a large VA school along with many others from high school and can count on one hand the number of times we actually ran into one another. There are thousands of other students at these schools.

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Anonymous wrote:University of Maryland any campus. Awful.

Really? There are lots and lots of overseas students paying full tuition to study at UMD. The music and IT departments are pretty strong. And don't forget the Medical School campus in Baltimore.

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Anonymous wrote:^^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".

I literally knew everyone in my class by sophomore year at my small LAC. I totally understand the interest in a larger school where there is more variety. UVA, Tech, and JMU are BIG schools and even if some think their student bodies look the same, that just isn't possible with their size.

Well then I guess I don't know why they call it 13th grade.

I think it's probably a bit of a defense mechanism to deal with assholes who denigrate their choice or point out how many kids from their HS are going there.

I think it's because they'll know literally hundreds of kids before they get there. Lots of our neighbor's kids have been in school together since Kindergarten and they've played on NoVa-wide sports teams for almost 10 years (so they know lots more kids than just their local schools) and they joke that they're going off to 13th grade together.

Seriously? How often are these kids really going to see each other once at a large college campus? I went to a large VA school along with many others from high school and can count on one hand the number of times we actually ran into one another. There are thousands of other students at these schools.

At least from what our kids have observed recently with the "pick your roommate" method, every kid knows all their roommates when they start. And, the friends hang out with friends -- most of whom knew each other from high school and before. So, it seems my kids' experiences are different from yours 20 years ago.

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Radford. West VA university. Old Dominion University. Also, I would discourage them from going to a liberal arts UNLESS they have a firm idea of what they want to be and how they plan to accomplish it.

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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!

False reports of rape are very rare. Please don't spread this myth. It's more likely that guys with poor socials skills and entitled attitude rape than "quite a few" women (who are also geeks who attend Caltech) would make it up.

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Anonymous wrote:^^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".

I literally knew everyone in my class by sophomore year at my small LAC. I totally understand the interest in a larger school where there is more variety. UVA, Tech, and JMU are BIG schools and even if some think their student bodies look the same, that just isn't possible with their size.

Well then I guess I don't know why they call it 13th grade.

I think it's probably a bit of a defense mechanism to deal with assholes who denigrate their choice or point out how many kids from their HS are going there.

I think it's because they'll know literally hundreds of kids before they get there. Lots of our neighbor's kids have been in school together since Kindergarten and they've played on NoVa-wide sports teams for almost 10 years (so they know lots more kids than just their local schools) and they joke that they're going off to 13th grade together.

Seriously? How often are these kids really going to see each other once at a large college campus? I went to a large VA school along with many others from high school and can count on one hand the number of times we actually ran into one another. There are thousands of other students at these schools.

At least from what our kids have observed recently with the "pick your roommate" method, every kid knows all their roommates when they start. And, the friends hang out with friends -- most of whom knew each other from high school and before. So, it seems my kids' experiences are different from yours 20 years ago.

I have a DS who is a current junior at one of VA's state schools. Lots of his classmates also went to this school and yet he has almost never run into them. The ones who knew one another in high school deliberately chose roommates they'd never met before so as to avoid what you're describing. Perhaps your kids should have/could have done the same.

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Anonymous wrote:I wouldn't "forbid" my adult daughters from going anywhere, but I would likely refuse to pay for:
- a for-profit university
- a school that is not regionally accredited by one of the nationally recognized accrediting agencies under federal laws
- an extremely religious school that is intolerant of religious diversity or that bases all of student life around a specific religious denomination's rules and dogma. We aren't that religious and I would not be comfortable with my money going to support such an institution. I would also be uncomfortable with my DDs in such an atmosphere, but that's not really my business once they're adults.

Thread winner. Well said.

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UNC-Chapel Hill

reason? Look at the front page of your paper

The school is a disgraceful

Watch the faithful circle the wagons

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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!

False reports of rape are very rare. Please don't spread this myth. It's more likely that guys with poor socials skills and entitled attitude rape than "quite a few" women (who are also geeks who attend Caltech) would make it up.

Many rape accusations end in recantment, meaning that the truth will never be known for many of the cases. The 2-8% figure being thrown around does not take this into consideration.

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Anonymous wrote:UNC-Chapel Hill

reason? Look at the front page of your paper

The school is a disgraceful

Watch the faithful circle the wagons

That pretty much describes all of the big time sports schools in the south...

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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.

if your child knows what a robot is, you need to tell them that robots will be doing that so there will be no truck drivers in 20 years.

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Anonymous wrote:UNC-Chapel Hill

reason? Look at the front page of your paper

The school is a disgraceful

Watch the faithful circle the wagons

That pretty much describes all of the big time sports schools in the south...

And it's not this way in the North?

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Anonymous wrote:UNC-Chapel Hill

reason? Look at the front page of your paper

The school is a disgraceful

Watch the faithful circle the wagons

That pretty much describes all of the big time sports schools in the south...

And it's not this way in the North?

no where near as egregious. The culture is completely different.

That said, pac12 probably has the best blend of academics and sports