tell me about colleges that didn't make your kid's list

[Anonymous]

Middlebury - middle of nowhere. Seems like a haven for drugs and incredibly pretentious but unimpressive students. Admin Director was beyond creepy. Everybody on our tour was wearing Canada Goose jackets. Strange and awkward tour guide. My daughter described it as gross - I agreed.

[Anonymous]

Everybody on our tour was wearing Canada Goose jackets

This is gross.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Everybody on our tour was wearing Canada Goose jackets

This is gross.

What are those?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Everybody on our tour was wearing Canada Goose jackets

This is gross.

What are those?

$1,000+ jackets filled with goose down and some trimmed with coyote fur.

[Anonymous]

Fondly referred to as Canada Douche.

[Anonymous]

Boston University

Buildings that have not been updated since they were built in the 1960.
Ugly cinder block construction
For $75K/, DD wanted a campus that was visually appealing.

oh yeah, AOC was indoctrinated there.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We live in Bethesda, where there are a ton of liberal families (including ours). Yet our sons seem to be turned off my campuses that are over-the-top-PC, as they put it. Based on reports from older brothers of his friends, my son ruled out Lewis & Clark and Macalaster and even Tufts.

Many liberals do not to like in the cancel culture that their like minded peers perpetuates.

Weird, I know. You'd think they'd stop.

[Anonymous]

UVM - the liberal feel and the students' need to apply a label to everyone and put people into their defined groups so students and give preference to certain ones and not others.
LGBQTLMNOP yes -
Caucasian and heterosexual - back of the line. Your ancestors used up all your privledge.
.
The pressure to announce that you have a penis and want to be called he/him.

yuck

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:UVM - the liberal feel and the students' need to apply a label to everyone and put people into their defined groups so students and give preference to certain ones and not others.
LGBQTLMNOP yes -
Caucasian and heterosexual - back of the line. Your ancestors used up all your privledge.
.
The pressure to announce that you have a penis and want to be called he/him.

yuck

So a lot of colleges are off the table for someone so wounded by what has been pretty normal in society in general for years. LGBT groups are normal. Affinity groups are normal.

I’m guessing Hillsborough or Liberty are safe spaces for you.

[Anonymous]

This thread was fun at first. It’s always interesting to see what strikes kids at different schools (and sometimes funny!).

Thanks to the people afraid of diversity and inclusion for ruining it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This thread was fun at first. It’s always interesting to see what strikes kids at different schools (and sometimes funny!).

Thanks to the people afraid of diversity and inclusion for ruining it.

+1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:UVM - the liberal feel and the students' need to apply a label to everyone and put people into their defined groups so students and give preference to certain ones and not others.
LGBQTLMNOP yes -
Caucasian and heterosexual - back of the line. Your ancestors used up all your privledge.
.
The pressure to announce that you have a penis and want to be called he/him.

yuck

So a lot of colleges are off the table for someone so wounded by what has been pretty normal in society in general for years. LGBT groups are normal. Affinity groups are normal.

I’m guessing Hillsborough or Liberty are safe spaces for you.

Of course those groups are normal and no one is suggesting they shouldn't exist and play important roles in a school. But anyone who has been around college/university or even high schools lately knows the difference between inclusion and diversity and white man shaming.

The problem is, while some of those white men will stay progressive and supportive of diversity, a not-insignificant number are going to be turned off by it and will veer hard to the right.

[Anonymous]

If we’re gonna get political at least name a college that your kid disliked because of politics.

my dd hated the political nonsense at American and SMU

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:UVM - the liberal feel and the students' need to apply a label to everyone and put people into their defined groups so students and give preference to certain ones and not others.
LGBQTLMNOP yes -
Caucasian and heterosexual - back of the line. Your ancestors used up all your privledge.
.
The pressure to announce that you have a penis and want to be called he/him.

yuck

So a lot of colleges are off the table for someone so wounded by what has been pretty normal in society in general for years. LGBT groups are normal. Affinity groups are normal.

I’m guessing Hillsborough or Liberty are safe spaces for you.

Hillsborough?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Public high school in the close-in suburbs in Northern Virginia. School is about 70% white.

To be clear these are all very liberal, progressive kids. But yeah, they feel like they should apologize for being white, for being male, and just keep their heads down and not express opinions/thoughts at school. My son specifically does not want to go to a place where he feels like he's constantly pounded over the head with the idea that all white men are the root of all evil in America and around the world.

Then they are taking the wrong message away from what is being articulated.