
Better weather, better sports teams, solid education, no pro Hamas protests, great place for today’s growing number of conservative youth. |
You need a cite to show you that most kids are rejected from schools like Harvard, Princeton, and Yale? Have you been living under a rock? |
So, you can’t answer the question? Do the work or not. 13% of Harvard is from Texas, Florida and NC. Does that bother you? |
You need a cite to show that kids applying to Alabama also applied to HYP. |
I do…because I seriously doubt that you can prove more than a handful. |
Again, more kids are going south than ever before, even if those numbers were once small, they're growing. |
+1. The good students are not interested in the subpar education and peer group of these large southern schools. |
My kid is at a big SEC school in a state that everyone in Dcumlandia seems to hate. While there is an immediate assumption that the community would be anti-LGBT, the reality is that it isn’t. We met a gay recruiter as soon as we arrived on campus (fun fact: they lived and worked in DC for a decade and prefer the SEC college town since people are friendlier and there’s a community vibe). Don’t make assumptions without verifying the ground truth. |
Why? |
I am curious where the poster claiming youth are more conservative is getting their numbers for that
Because it is opposite of everything I have seen and read, and I actually keep up with polling |
You are just wrong, although likely too myopic to believe it. |
The elite T20 schools will be fine even if a tsunami of northeast kids head south. The competition and desire for these schools will continue. It’s the middling, small, private colleges that give a lot of merit aid where the NE kids would have ended up that will suffer. I feel sorry for them but it is def driven by desire for fun instead of virtue signaling and social justice. |
The ground truth is state laws are anti-LGBTQ+ That cannot be changed just because a specific school may be accepting |
+100 |
Our experience exactly. I didn’t think these schools were serious consideration, but after the visit, I was sold. These schools are well-run and have a lot of money for research and well-paid professors. It has surpassed our expectations. The academic opportunities are amazing (DS is a junior and already has a prestigious job offer), but on top of that kids are just happy, the campus beautiful and the sports and community are a blast. And all for just about free with the scholarship! The WSJ article isn’t surprising at all. |