Colleges growing in popularity

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CNU, Mary Washington, JMU

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AU, BU, Northeastern

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Elon had a huge increase in applications this year - 15,208 up from 10,500 last year.

Hard to tell how much is due to moving to the Common App this year.

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Anonymous wrote:I am seeing a big rise in popularity in the southern state schools — Clemson, USC, UF, FSU, Bama, Auburn, etc. If I recall correctly, U of South Carolina was one of the most represented schools among my daughter’s graduating class last year at a W.

Also: Pitt.

As someone who grew up in the south and couldn't wait to get away from all of this, I find this so ironic and borderline laughable.

Why?

DP - because they are mediocre schools in generally lousy environments and do not have any national stature unless you are on the football team.

lol. Oh, honey. Stay clueless.

You stay a Confederate sympathizer! When they start voting Democratic I’ll start thinking they’re smart!

40% voted for Hilary and 44% voted for Obama.

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Anonymous wrote:I am seeing a big rise in popularity in the southern state schools — Clemson, USC, UF, FSU, Bama, Auburn, etc. If I recall correctly, U of South Carolina was one of the most represented schools among my daughter’s graduating class last year at a W.

Also: Pitt.

As someone who grew up in the south and couldn't wait to get away from all of this, I find this so ironic and borderline laughable.

True, D went to a southern school and couldn't get out of there fast enough

I think part of the issue here is that DC area kids are really used to everyone being liberal/democrat. People can say whatever they want because 99.5% of people will agree with them. My kids spent a significant portion of their lives in a more politically mixed area. Additionally, in extended family gatherings they have learned to respect others' opinions. They are more comfortable living in an area with a diversity of opinions. I know that people will say you mean with racists, sexists, etc. but there is more to it than that.

A friend of mine has a daughter in a "southern school" and she said it best. Child grew up in NoVA at a school that looks like the Model UN. Lots of diversity and true "politically mixed", as well as race, color, SES. Now, in her school, it is mostly white and the "N" word and other racially offensive language is thrown around pretty freely. If that's the "diversity of opinion" you are talking about, no thanks. I don't have to tolerate that. Nor does anyone else, in the interest of "diversity of opinion."

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Anonymous wrote:I am seeing a big rise in popularity in the southern state schools — Clemson, USC, UF, FSU, Bama, Auburn, etc. If I recall correctly, U of South Carolina was one of the most represented schools among my daughter’s graduating class last year at a W.

Also: Pitt.

As someone who grew up in the south and couldn't wait to get away from all of this, I find this so ironic and borderline laughable.

Why?

DP - because they are mediocre schools in generally lousy environments and do not have any national stature unless you are on the football team.

lol. Oh, honey. Stay clueless.

You stay a Confederate sympathizer! When they start voting Democratic I’ll start thinking they’re smart!

40% voted for Hilary and 44% voted for Obama.

Also Columbia is solidly blue.

But who can't send their kids to a college that has Republicans... FFS grow up.

https://www.nytimes.com/elections/2016/results/south-carolina

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Anonymous wrote:I am seeing a big rise in popularity in the southern state schools — Clemson, USC, UF, FSU, Bama, Auburn, etc. If I recall correctly, U of South Carolina was one of the most represented schools among my daughter’s graduating class last year at a W.

Also: Pitt.

As someone who grew up in the south and couldn't wait to get away from all of this, I find this so ironic and borderline laughable.

True, D went to a southern school and couldn't get out of there fast enough

I think part of the issue here is that DC area kids are really used to everyone being liberal/democrat. People can say whatever they want because 99.5% of people will agree with them. My kids spent a significant portion of their lives in a more politically mixed area. Additionally, in extended family gatherings they have learned to respect others' opinions. They are more comfortable living in an area with a diversity of opinions. I know that people will say you mean with racists, sexists, etc. but there is more to it than that.

I kinda get what you're saying, but I think you are being a little bit disingenuous here. I travel all over the country for work and I have co-workers who live in every part of the country. I am a married, white female. I still, today, in 2020, REGULARLY hear blatantly homophobic, racist, sexist speech, particularly when in the South and Texas. The DMV area may lean more democratic (although I would push back on that a bit - we know lots of republicans in our neighborhood, at my office in Maryland, and at my daughters school), but I am always shocked when I am in the South and I hear this kind of thing and the assumption is that I agree with them. Its sad, disgusting, and scary to me.

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What industry are you in?

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Anonymous wrote:I am seeing a big rise in popularity in the southern state schools — Clemson, USC, UF, FSU, Bama, Auburn, etc. If I recall correctly, U of South Carolina was one of the most represented schools among my daughter’s graduating class last year at a W.

Also: Pitt.

As someone who grew up in the south and couldn't wait to get away from all of this, I find this so ironic and borderline laughable.

True, D went to a southern school and couldn't get out of there fast enough

I think part of the issue here is that DC area kids are really used to everyone being liberal/democrat. People can say whatever they want because 99.5% of people will agree with them. My kids spent a significant portion of their lives in a more politically mixed area. Additionally, in extended family gatherings they have learned to respect others' opinions. They are more comfortable living in an area with a diversity of opinions. I know that people will say you mean with racists, sexists, etc. but there is more to it than that.

A friend of mine has a daughter in a "southern school" and she said it best. Child grew up in NoVA at a school that looks like the Model UN. Lots of diversity and true "politically mixed", as well as race, color, SES. Now, in her school, it is mostly white and the "N" word and other racially offensive language is thrown around pretty freely. If that's the "diversity of opinion" you are talking about, no thanks. I don't have to tolerate that. Nor does anyone else, in the interest of "diversity of opinion."

Actually, it sounds like that the only choice for you, is to send your kids south. You should take some responsibility and send your kids south so they can help fight the fight. How else do you expect cultural attitudes to change?

My kids' Bethesda school, also looks like the Model UN - but I promise you it is not politically mixed - nor is the NOVA school you refer to.

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I am seeing a big rise in popularity in the southern state schools — Clemson, USC, UF, FSU, Bama, Auburn, etc. If I recall correctly, U of South Carolina was one of the most represented schools among my daughter’s graduating class last year at a W.

Also: Pitt.



As someone who grew up in the south and couldn't wait to get away from all of this, I find this so ironic and borderline laughable.


Why?




DP - because they are mediocre schools in generally lousy environments and do not have any national stature unless you are on the football team.


lol. Oh, honey. Stay clueless.



You stay a Confederate sympathizer! When they start voting Democratic I’ll start thinking they’re smart!



U of SC is growing in popularity with the area top schools because of its honors college - the #1 in the US. And, they give lots of merit aid for that program and tons of support.

What metric is this comment based on? This sounds ridiculous.

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I am seeing a big rise in popularity in the southern state schools — Clemson, USC, UF, FSU, Bama, Auburn, etc. If I recall correctly, U of South Carolina was one of the most represented schools among my daughter’s graduating class last year at a W.

Also: Pitt.



As someone who grew up in the south and couldn't wait to get away from all of this, I find this so ironic and borderline laughable.


Why?




DP - because they are mediocre schools in generally lousy environments and do not have any national stature unless you are on the football team.


lol. Oh, honey. Stay clueless.



You stay a Confederate sympathizer! When they start voting Democratic I’ll start thinking they’re smart!



U of SC is growing in popularity with the area top schools because of its honors college - the #1 in the US. And, they give lots of merit aid for that program and tons of support.

What metric is this comment based on? This sounds ridiculous.

Here is one. If you don't know it, learn the difference between an honors program and an honors college before reviewing.

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As people look for alternatives to SLACs in the Northeast, Southeast and California, I hear about people looking in Ohio (Denison, Kenyon, Oberlin and Wooster), Minnesota (Carleton, Macalester and St. Olaf), Wisconsin (Beloit and Lawrence), Oregon (Lewis & Clark, Reed and Willamette), and Washington (Puget Sound and Whitman). Some others in the Midwest also come up (Grinnell, Kalamazoo and Knox, for example). Some of those schools have been drawing heavily from the DC area for decades but some have been doing better at recruitment in recent years.

Don't be fooled by the locations. Some of these schools attract people from all over. When touring Grinnell I was shocked by how many hip, cosmopolitan kids there were from the East and West coasts.

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Anonymous wrote:Ohio schools.

Particularly Denison, Miami of Ohio, and Wooster.

The name is not "Miami of Ohio." It's Miami University.

Miami was a university in Ohio when Florida belonged to Spain. If you need to make a distinction, call the University of Miami "Miami of Florida."

NP. Spouse went there and calls it Miami of Ohio and Miami University. Either way, great school!

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Good schools don't have honors colleges. You think Harvard has an honors college? No. You only have an honors college if gen pop students are too rough to mix with the intellectuals.

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Anonymous wrote:Good schools don't have honors colleges. You think Harvard has an honors college? No. You only have an honors college if gen pop students are too rough to mix with the intellectuals.

Michigan has an honors college.