What colleges are falling out of fashion?

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Bowdoin

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Anonymous wrote:Duke

+1

Ha Duke has a 6% acceptance rate and not one of the six plus kids from Sidwell who applied there
Was admitted early. So Um no. I personally don”t love Duke but it’s still impossible to get in…

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Anonymous wrote:Rice

...hmmm...no. I'm as liberal you get and I would probably hold my nose and send my DS to Rice if he had even a prayer of getting in. It looks like an absolutely phenomenal school. I wouldn't do that for other Texas schools -- too many good places elsewhere.

Picking schools based on political bias…now that is open-mindedness…I guess UF is out for you too as you don’t want to expose your kids to opposing local views 😀 (in fear that they might actually switch sides?)

It’s not political anymore - it’s about morality. I don’t want my daughter going to a school that sees women as incubators or thinks Black Lives don’t matter. I don’t want her exposed to the cruelty and stupidity of the current conservative movement or the worship of gun ownership. I will not pay to have her exposed to the belief that immigrants are evil.

Not ever going to happen.

No, no, no. This is not Rice at all. We visited and it is a lovely, liberal bubble. The students are on the front lines of activism there, it was about immigration policy when we visited. Engineering students put up huge signs saying “we will not build your wall.”

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Rice

...hmmm...no. I'm as liberal you get and I would probably hold my nose and send my DS to Rice if he had even a prayer of getting in. It looks like an absolutely phenomenal school. I wouldn't do that for other Texas schools -- too many good places elsewhere.

Picking schools based on political bias…now that is open-mindedness…I guess UF is out for you too as you don’t want to expose your kids to opposing local views 😀 (in fear that they might actually switch sides?)

It’s not political anymore - it’s about morality. I don’t want my daughter going to a school that sees women as incubators or thinks Black Lives don’t matter. I don’t want her exposed to the cruelty and stupidity of the current conservative movement or the worship of gun ownership. I will not pay to have her exposed to the belief that immigrants are evil.

Not ever going to happen.

No, no, no. This is not Rice at all. We visited and it is a lovely, liberal bubble. The students are on the front lines of activism there, it was about immigration policy when we visited. Engineering students put up huge signs saying “we will not build your wall.”

And I believe the Rice marching band made a Title IX formation when they played Baylor in football a few years ago (Baylor then pummeled the FB team). Don’t make assumptions about everyone in Texas. It is much harder for students to make statements like that in a red state than, for example, at UMD where pretty much everyone is on the same page politically.

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Anonymous wrote:Duke

+1

Ha Duke has a 6% acceptance rate and not one of the six plus kids from Sidwell who applied there
Was admitted early. So Um no. I personally don”t love Duke but it’s still impossible to get in…

It’s no longer a destination for top high schoolers in the country like it was in the 90s. No longer seeing Andover, Deerfield or TJ kids going there in droves - it’s usually an afterthought nowadays with 1 or 2 attending at most each year.