Is Hillsdale the new Harvard?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Hillsdale, yikes! Normal people from the coasts don't go there. How about Liberty U, is that a new official state school of the USA, lol.

Hillsdale is nothing like liberty

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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

I'd really love to engage with you, but have a policy of avoiding stupid people who can't even be bothered to google.

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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.

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

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

Oh, well then mission accomplished!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote: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).

USNWR reports that Hillsdale has a 0% minority population.

"..Ethnic Diversity

0%
Minority Enrollment
0%
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Source: https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/hillsdale-college-2272

Psst: that's because they don't track minority enrollment or keep stats on any students' race.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Hillsdale, yikes! Normal people from the coasts don't go there. How about Liberty U, is that a new official state school of the USA, lol.

Hillsdale is nothing like liberty

DP only responding because you bumped this back up. Again. You really seem like a paid political poster. You probably started this absurd thread, and every time it starts to fade, you revive it -- curses!

And, FWIW, they (Hillsdale and Liberty) are not far off one another. I know students at both.

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

Forever Harvard lovers just don't want to admit it.

It makes perfect sense that people at Harvard would all get good grades. Are you one of these people who think grading should resemble a bell curve? That sort of weird, regressive thinking seems like it would belong at Hillsdale.

85% of Hillsdale students graduate in 6 years. It has a dropout rate of 10% BTW and a transfer rate of 5%. So basically, 15% of students who matriculate bail. That's a lot of disillusionment.

Harvard's transfer rate is under 1%. It has a graduation rate of 98%.

DP. Please cite your sources.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote: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).

USNWR reports that Hillsdale has a 0% minority population.

"..Ethnic Diversity

0%
Minority Enrollment
0%
...."
Source: https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/hillsdale-college-2272

Harvard grad here: To be fair, that's not what it says. It says it's 100% "unknown" because Hillsdale doesn't collect and report that information.

Thank goodness. It (USNWR) should be clearer.

DP. It's quite clear. It says "100% unknown" under minority enrollment.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:When you apply to Hillsdale, they cannot possibly discriminate against or for you on the basis of race because they don't know what race you are, as nowhere in your application do you have to tell them your race. Which they manage to do because they take zero tax-payer money and are completely private, which on its own is sort of astonishing. You are admitted purely on merit and potential fit for the school. They also don't keep track of that while you are there.

Good for them, although literally no universities discriminate against anyone on the basis of race, so what's your point.

DP. It's clear you're not a serious person.

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

Forever Harvard lovers just don't want to admit it.

It makes perfect sense that people at Harvard would all get good grades. Are you one of these people who think grading should resemble a bell curve? That sort of weird, regressive thinking seems like it would belong at Hillsdale.

85% of Hillsdale students graduate in 6 years. It has a dropout rate of 10% BTW and a transfer rate of 5%. So basically, 15% of students who matriculate bail. That's a lot of disillusionment.

Harvard's transfer rate is under 1%. It has a graduation rate of 98%.

DP. Please cite your sources.

Google is your friend.

https://www.collegefactual.com/colleges/hillsdale-college/academic-life/graduation-and-retention/

https://www.ivywise.com/blog/what-is-the-harvard-graduation-rate/

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Anonymous wrote:Harvard is trying to make up for its discriminatory past, while Hillsdale didn't have a past of discrimination to begin with.

Hillsdale doesn't even accept federal funds to avoid any Title IX obligations. Which the two women it blamed for being raped after phony investigations pointed out in their lawsuits in October.

https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/michigan/2023/10/25/hillsdale-college-fails-students-who-report-sexual-assault-lawsuit-says/71315472007/

Your post is so poorly worded I can't even tell what you're talking about. Hillsdale takes no federal funds and as such, isn't beholden to the federal government in any way. The rape allegations were fully investigated, but guess what? Not every person accused of rape is guilty.
DP

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'll admit that I'm experiencing a little schadenfreude reading this thread. The religious nutters from Hillsdale are so insecure that they are desperately trying to disparage Harvard. So humiliating for the tryhards.

You clearly do not know the meaning of this word.

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Anonymous wrote:The University of Michigan and Michigan State both faced sexual harassment claims within the last 10 years. Almost every university has problems with this. But you single out Hillsdale.

Not me, toots. The plaintiffs.

The fact that it studiously avoids Title IX is a huge red flag. I wouldn’t send my daughters there. Apparently other people agree — it’s one of the few schools that is majority male.

DP. You keep posting lies. Why is that? Hillsdale is 50/50 men/women. Also - many schools are majority male (not that Hillsdale is). What's a huge red flag is that anyone would consider that strange. My daughter attends Virginia Tech, which is majority male.
https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/hillsdale-college-2272

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Hillsdale, yikes! Normal people from the coasts don't go there. How about Liberty U, is that a new official state school of the USA, lol.

You sound really, really bright.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Hillsdale, yikes! Normal people from the coasts don't go there. How about Liberty U, is that a new official state school of the USA, lol.

You sound really, really bright.

“From the coasts” what on earth does that mean?

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Anonymous wrote:Hillsdale, yikes! Normal people from the coasts don't go there. How about Liberty U, is that a new official state school of the USA, lol.

Hillsdale is nothing like liberty

DP only responding because you bumped this back up. Again. You really seem like a paid political poster. You probably started this absurd thread, and every time it starts to fade, you revive it -- curses!

And, FWIW, they (Hillsdale and Liberty) are not far off one another. I know students at both.

DP. Those two schools are nothing alike. Hillsdale is a true academic powerhouse without the evangelical nonsense one finds at Liberty. Nice try, though.