Indiana University

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Anonymous wrote:When I went there the school runs a bit white christian. I am Jewish and many of the kids there never met anyone who was Jewish (many were from small towns in Indiana). This was many years ago though. Because of all the kids coming in from the East coast, I'm sure the Jewish population has grown a bit and hopefully cultural advances have been made since I was last there. I lived in one of the smaller hippy dorms (Collins) and there was a good mix of POC, artists, free spirits, etc. But most of the school is not like that.

It still is this way. My kid went to a very diverse high school and IU is white, white, white. The business school tends to have more diversity than the other colleges.

There is nothing wrong with white, white, white, so long as there are no remnants of those who allowed slavery, racism, or segregation, which you will find very little in Indiana as another PP alluded to, and you will find some traits of those in all Southern towns, such as Charlottesville. Let's not forget where the phrase "sold down the river" came from, it is from Charlottesville where they sold the slaves down the James river to southern plantations, where the life expectancy were less than 5 years because of the hard toil in the southern plantations. Indiana doesn't have that history.

Indiana has a very looooong history with racism and the KKK. The county next to Monroe county has an open and active KKK. There are white supremacists at the farmer's market in Bloomington and if a protestor against the white supremacists dared to show a sign, the were arrested.

This is what my DH remembers from the 1970s, when he lived near IU. The KKK marched in the Fourth of July parade.

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Anonymous wrote:Thoughts? Specifically looking into Jacobs School of Music but would take opinions on IU as a whole as well! Thanks!

Surely you know it’s one of the best conservatories in the country. Music schools are much more of a personal decision though - only your DC can know, based on meetings with professors on his/her instrument and visits with other students.

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Anonymous wrote:When I went there the school runs a bit white christian. I am Jewish and many of the kids there never met anyone who was Jewish (many were from small towns in Indiana). This was many years ago though. Because of all the kids coming in from the East coast, I'm sure the Jewish population has grown a bit and hopefully cultural advances have been made since I was last there. I lived in one of the smaller hippy dorms (Collins) and there was a good mix of POC, artists, free spirits, etc. But most of the school is not like that.

It still is this way. My kid went to a very diverse high school and IU is white, white, white. The business school tends to have more diversity than the other colleges.

There is nothing wrong with white, white, white, so long as there are no remnants of those who allowed slavery, racism, or segregation, which you will find very little in Indiana as another PP alluded to, and you will find some traits of those in all Southern towns, such as Charlottesville. Let's not forget where the phrase "sold down the river" came from, it is from Charlottesville where they sold the slaves down the James river to southern plantations, where the life expectancy were less than 5 years because of the hard toil in the southern plantations. Indiana doesn't have that history.

Indiana has a very looooong history with racism and the KKK. The county next to Monroe county has an open and active KKK. There are white supremacists at the farmer's market in Bloomington and if a protestor against the white supremacists dared to show a sign, the were arrested.

This is what my DH remembers from the 1970s, when he lived near IU. The KKK marched in the Fourth of July parade.

Uh, lots of places had rampant racism in the 70s. Like UMD. I work there and we are still gearing the experiences of alumni in that era.

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Anonymous wrote:Thoughts? Specifically looking into Jacobs School of Music but would take opinions on IU as a whole as well! Thanks!

Surely you know it’s one of the best conservatories in the country. Music schools are much more of a personal decision though - only your DC can know, based on meetings with professors on his/her instrument and visits with other students.

Surely you know people are allowed to ask for opinions about universities. I mean FFS.

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Anonymous wrote:Thoughts? Specifically looking into Jacobs School of Music but would take opinions on IU as a whole as well! Thanks!

Surely you know it’s one of the best conservatories in the country. Music schools are much more of a personal decision though - only your DC can know, based on meetings with professors on his/her instrument and visits with other students.

Surely you know people are allowed to ask for opinions about universities. I mean FFS.

NP and really, it's like asking if Iowa has a good writing program or if there are decent tech internships in Silicon Valley.

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Anonymous wrote:My very liberal dc loves IU. We had some reservation about it, and being in ‘gods country’ and the home of Our current VP. But not anymore. Ironically, most of dc friends are from the dmv or Chicago. So no real interaction with the right.

What is hilarious and sad at the same time is that there are so many "enlightened liberals" who write off entire states and regions based on some aspects of politics. You assume a place will be closed-minded and bigoted based on....your lack of direct knowledge and experience of it! When you make assumptions about "flyover country," you sound as stupid as those who write off people who are different from them in other ways.

+1 well said. Thank you!

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Anonymous wrote:My very liberal dc loves IU. We had some reservation about it, and being in ‘gods country’ and the home of Our current VP. But not anymore. Ironically, most of dc friends are from the dmv or Chicago. So no real interaction with the right.

What is hilarious and sad at the same time is that there are so many "enlightened liberals" who write off entire states and regions based on some aspects of politics. You assume a place will be closed-minded and bigoted based on....your lack of direct knowledge and experience of it! When you make assumptions about "flyover country," you sound as stupid as those who write off people who are different from them in other ways.

+1 well said. Thank you!

Agreed. My DC is at Illinois and exposure to ppl with different views and backgrounds than in MoCo is one of the values of going OOS.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Thoughts? Specifically looking into Jacobs School of Music but would take opinions on IU as a whole as well! Thanks!

Surely you know it’s one of the best conservatories in the country. Music schools are much more of a personal decision though - only your DC can know, based on meetings with professors on his/her instrument and visits with other students.

Surely you know people are allowed to ask for opinions about universities. I mean FFS.

NP and really, it's like asking if Iowa has a good writing program or if there are decent tech internships in Silicon Valley.

+1

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Anonymous wrote:My very liberal dc loves IU. We had some reservation about it, and being in ‘gods country’ and the home of Our current VP. But not anymore. Ironically, most of dc friends are from the dmv or Chicago. So no real interaction with the right.

What is hilarious and sad at the same time is that there are so many "enlightened liberals" who write off entire states and regions based on some aspects of politics. You assume a place will be closed-minded and bigoted based on....your lack of direct knowledge and experience of it! When you make assumptions about "flyover country," you sound as stupid as those who write off people who are different from them in other ways.

+1 well said. Thank you!

Agreed. My DC is at Illinois and exposure to ppl with different views and backgrounds than in MoCo is one of the values of going OOS.

A lot of kids from the DC area would learn more from humble, hardworking white kids from the Midwest than they would from entitled kids of any color from the DMV, but it’s not PC to acknowledge.

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Anonymous wrote:My very liberal dc loves IU. We had some reservation about it, and being in ‘gods country’ and the home of Our current VP. But not anymore. Ironically, most of dc friends are from the dmv or Chicago. So no real interaction with the right.

What is hilarious and sad at the same time is that there are so many "enlightened liberals" who write off entire states and regions based on some aspects of politics. You assume a place will be closed-minded and bigoted based on....your lack of direct knowledge and experience of it! When you make assumptions about "flyover country," you sound as stupid as those who write off people who are different from them in other ways.

+1 well said. Thank you!

Agreed. My DC is at Illinois and exposure to ppl with different views and backgrounds than in MoCo is one of the values of going OOS.

A lot of kids from the DC area would learn more from humble, hardworking white kids from the Midwest than they would from entitled kids of any color from the DMV, but it’s not PC to acknowledge.

Perhaps, but my kid also appreciates that Illinois is not “white, white, white.” It’s more diverse than you would expect.

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Anonymous wrote:My very liberal dc loves IU. We had some reservation about it, and being in ‘gods country’ and the home of Our current VP. But not anymore. Ironically, most of dc friends are from the dmv or Chicago. So no real interaction with the right.

What is hilarious and sad at the same time is that there are so many "enlightened liberals" who write off entire states and regions based on some aspects of politics. You assume a place will be closed-minded and bigoted based on....your lack of direct knowledge and experience of it! When you make assumptions about "flyover country," you sound as stupid as those who write off people who are different from them in other ways.

+1 well said. Thank you!

Agreed. My DC is at Illinois and exposure to ppl with different views and backgrounds than in MoCo is one of the values of going OOS.

A lot of kids from the DC area would learn more from humble, hardworking white kids from the Midwest than they would from entitled kids of any color from the DMV, but it’s not PC to acknowledge.

Perhaps, but my kid also appreciates that Illinois is not “white, white, white.” It’s more diverse than you would expect.

And Indiana has a large Hispanic presence. Just because certain people who claim to be liberal-minded don’t know these things doesn’t mean they aren’t true. Bloomington also had an extremely active LGBTQA+ community.

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Anonymous wrote:Do most grads end up in Indiana after graduation?

No. Many do stay in the Midwest (lots of Chicago placements from the B-school) but there are also many, many alumni here in DC.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Thoughts? Specifically looking into Jacobs School of Music but would take opinions on IU as a whole as well! Thanks!

Surely you know it’s one of the best conservatories in the country. Music schools are much more of a personal decision though - only your DC can know, based on meetings with professors on his/her instrument and visits with other students.

Surely you know people are allowed to ask for opinions about universities. I mean FFS.

NP and really, it's like asking if Iowa has a good writing program or if there are decent tech internships in Silicon Valley.

+1

Except OP specifically asked about the wider university.

If your kid got into a fabulous program and you would not want feedback about the whole school, that's awesome for you. And even so, it's possible people on this board have kids that went to that conservatory and have specific advice. So let people talk and don't shut them down.

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Anonymous wrote:My very liberal dc loves IU. We had some reservation about it, and being in ‘gods country’ and the home of Our current VP. But not anymore. Ironically, most of dc friends are from the dmv or Chicago. So no real interaction with the right.

What is hilarious and sad at the same time is that there are so many "enlightened liberals" who write off entire states and regions based on some aspects of politics. You assume a place will be closed-minded and bigoted based on....your lack of direct knowledge and experience of it! When you make assumptions about "flyover country," you sound as stupid as those who write off people who are different from them in other ways.

+1 well said. Thank you!

Agreed. My DC is at Illinois and exposure to ppl with different views and backgrounds than in MoCo is one of the values of going OOS.

A lot of kids from the DC area would learn more from humble, hardworking white kids from the Midwest than they would from entitled kids of any color from the DMV, but it’s not PC to acknowledge.

AMEN!! +1000 says the Hoosier with kid in MOCO schools. OMG

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huh, interesting, I went to Indiana University and it was very popular with Jewish students from the northeast. (Wisconsin and Michigan are, too.)