Which schools are becoming more popular? Any surprises?

[Anonymous]

My senior won’t touch a NE school because of the wokeness. And he isn’t that conservative.

[Anonymous]

CU Boulder, maybe. Five kids from my DD's school committed there last year; we know of several friends from other area schools also committed, and my DD has met other local kids.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My senior won’t touch a NE school because of the wokeness. And he isn’t that conservative.

My kid (now in college) was colored by wokeness and extreme covid measures. He was a HS junior when covid hit and didn't want to be at a school where he'd be locked in a dorm room.

My other kid (HS junior) wants to avoid anything woke. We visited one school (not in the NE) that was woke and the student population looked absolutely miserable. We then visited a southern state flagship where the students were actually smiling and looking like they were enjoying college, and she immediately felt at home.

[Anonymous]

covid, I get. but the need to avoid "woke"? very snowflake behavior.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My senior won’t touch a NE school because of the wokeness. And he isn’t that conservative.

My kid (now in college) was colored by wokeness and extreme covid measures. He was a HS junior when covid hit and didn't want to be at a school where he'd be locked in a dorm room.

My other kid (HS junior) wants to avoid anything woke. We visited one school (not in the NE) that was woke and the student population looked absolutely miserable. We then visited a southern state flagship where the students were actually smiling and looking like they were enjoying college, and she immediately felt at home.

NP. Ugh, please share the name of the miserable campus

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I agree that northeast schools are less popular. It has me worried for New England (I love New England). But it seems like the new rust belt, minus the factories. I was visiting friends this past summer and the region felt very depressed economically.

The schools in New England would become more popular if they stopped being such utterly grim places. They have become completely exhausting educational factories where the administrators have issued kill-on-sight orders for anything approaching “fun,” and the academic discourse has turned into an ideological gulag.

Yep. Add in the fact that they offer no merit aid, hard to get into if one doesn't ED - it's just not as appealing as it could be.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My senior won’t touch a NE school because of the wokeness. And he isn’t that conservative.

NP. Same for my DS, now a sophomore at Vanderbilt. He also couldn't be persuaded to throw his hat in the ring for places like Columbia or Yale -- he definitely had the resume to buy an Ivy lotto ticket -- because he wanted no more part of the progressive thought police that he had endured for the last decade in DC.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My senior won’t touch a NE school because of the wokeness. And he isn’t that conservative.

NP. Same for my DS, now a sophomore at Vanderbilt. He also couldn't be persuaded to throw his hat in the ring for places like Columbia or Yale -- he definitely had the resume to buy an Ivy lotto ticket -- because he wanted no more part of the progressive thought police that he had endured for the last decade in DC.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My senior won’t touch a NE school because of the wokeness. And he isn’t that conservative.

My kid (now in college) was colored by wokeness and extreme covid measures. He was a HS junior when covid hit and didn't want to be at a school where he'd be locked in a dorm room.

My other kid (HS junior) wants to avoid anything woke. We visited one school (not in the NE) that was woke and the student population looked absolutely miserable. We then visited a southern state flagship where the students were actually smiling and looking like they were enjoying college, and she immediately felt at home.

Yes, I'm sure she's the one trying to avoid anything "woke", whatever that means.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My senior won’t touch a NE school because of the wokeness. And he isn’t that conservative.

NP. Same for my DS, now a sophomore at Vanderbilt. He also couldn't be persuaded to throw his hat in the ring for places like Columbia or Yale -- he definitely had the resume to buy an Ivy lotto ticket -- because he wanted no more part of the progressive thought police that he had endured for the last decade in DC.

Why the FOUR eye-rolleys? Is there something wrong with the PP? Should everyone aspire to Colby

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My senior won’t touch a NE school because of the wokeness. And he isn’t that conservative.

My kid (now in college) was colored by wokeness and extreme covid measures. He was a HS junior when covid hit and didn't want to be at a school where he'd be locked in a dorm room.

My other kid (HS junior) wants to avoid anything woke. We visited one school (not in the NE) that was woke and the student population looked absolutely miserable. We then visited a southern state flagship where the students were actually smiling and looking like they were enjoying college, and she immediately felt at home.

Yes, I'm sure she's the one trying to avoid anything "woke", whatever that means.

Look, just enjoy your fading star Oberlin or whatever. There's enough higher education options in the US to have something for everyone.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My senior won’t touch a NE school because of the wokeness. And he isn’t that conservative.

NP. Same for my DS, now a sophomore at Vanderbilt. He also couldn't be persuaded to throw his hat in the ring for places like Columbia or Yale -- he definitely had the resume to buy an Ivy lotto ticket -- because he wanted no more part of the progressive thought police that he had endured for the last decade in DC.

I'm sure Ted Cruz (Princeton/Harvard), Tom Cotton (Harvard/Harvard), and Josh Hawley (Stanford/Yale) would agree with you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My senior won’t touch a NE school because of the wokeness. And he isn’t that conservative.

NP. Same for my DS, now a sophomore at Vanderbilt. He also couldn't be persuaded to throw his hat in the ring for places like Columbia or Yale -- he definitely had the resume to buy an Ivy lotto ticket -- because he wanted no more part of the progressive thought police that he had endured for the last decade in DC.

I'm sure Ted Cruz (Princeton/Harvard), Tom Cotton (Harvard/Harvard), and Josh Hawley (Stanford/Yale) would agree with you.

Don't forget Ron DeSantis (Yale/Harvard).

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My senior won’t touch a NE school because of the wokeness. And he isn’t that conservative.

NP. Same for my DS, now a sophomore at Vanderbilt. He also couldn't be persuaded to throw his hat in the ring for places like Columbia or Yale -- he definitely had the resume to buy an Ivy lotto ticket -- because he wanted no more part of the progressive thought police that he had endured for the last decade in DC.

Why the FOUR eye-rolleys? Is there something wrong with the PP? Should everyone aspire to Colby

They were a response to the poster stating that their DS turned down Ivies that he totally could've gotten into because of "progressive thought police". If he wanted to go to a southern school so he can be racist and homophobic without consequences, he should just say that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My senior won’t touch a NE school because of the wokeness. And he isn’t that conservative.

We are sticking with Jesuit universities with all the crap going on in the past 5 years.