What are the top colleges in “real America?”

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Anonymous wrote:What is "real America"? Honest question. Nearly 127M people live on the US East/West coasts, which makes it about 40% of the total population. Why do people insist on discounting 40% of the US population as not being the "real" America?

Maybe because you twits call 60% of America "flyover country.". Do you folk even read the drivel on DCUM? I won't send my kid to the South because of the racism... Wisky is Naziland... etc etc...
You expect people to worship the shit your Ivy League kid steps in.
There are elite, good and mediocre colleges spread throughout the country. Most people don't know much about any elite colleges. DCUM posters seem to have quite limited knowledge of most colleges outside of the Ivy League and maybe NESCAC.

And you all don’t stereotype us so-called “coastal elites”? I’m damn sick of you telling me I don’t live in real America.

As the author of the above screed, I would like to make the obvious point that I never called out the 40% who live on the coasts. I only talked about the standard idiot posters on DCUM. Yes, you richly deserve the appellation of "provincial pseudo-elitist snobs."

Wow you’re a very angry person. On behalf of all the idiot posters on DCUM that you obviously can’t avoid reading, we are so very sorry.

DP here. It's a little funny to see east coast folks creating this fantasy that they're being discriminated against in this thread. Pretty thin-skinned if you ask me, considering that the derision and ridicule of folks from "flyover country" are way, way more pronounced than the other way around. Provincialism exists in equal measure in most parts of this country. I'm sorry but no one is ever going to convince me that someone from Boston or Philly (or even DC/NOVA) is more "sophisticated" than someone from, say, Chicago.

Here’s the problem: You assume we all hate everyone from the Midwest. We don’t. I don’t, at least. So for me to see you all saying I don’t live in “real America” is pretty awful, when I harbor zero derision towards you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yes if you live in Texas and go to Texas - Austin it’s elite

If you are down to earth American you go to UNC, but it’s Elite, if you go to Duke (private) you are elitist.

Michigan, Chicago, VA, FLA are both elite and elitist.

If you live in Alabama it is elite to go to Alabama, no matter what the rest of elitists think.

I agree with all of this.

Generally speaking for most of the country, the best/elite school is going to be your flagship state university. There is maybe a few states where this is not true, but for the most part this is the case.

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Most of the people I know who you'd consider to be "from real America" tell me that all colleges are about the same and you can get the same education from anywhere. I am "from real America" and went to a "fancy" school and this is what they have told me, back when I still had T-shirts from the school that I would wear around sometimes. You know how many T-shirts you end up with after freshman year.

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I grew up in a small town in the mountain west. On the rare occasion that one of our high school grade went to a big football school, it was seen as elite...because it was on TV.

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Anonymous wrote:I grew up in a small town in the mountain west. On the rare occasion that one of our high school grade went to a big football school, it was seen as elite...because it was on TV.

**grads
Not grade

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Anonymous wrote:What is "real America"? Honest question. Nearly 127M people live on the US East/West coasts, which makes it about 40% of the total population. Why do people insist on discounting 40% of the US population as not being the "real" America?

Maybe because you twits call 60% of America "flyover country.". Do you folk even read the drivel on DCUM? I won't send my kid to the South because of the racism... Wisky is Naziland... etc etc...
You expect people to worship the shit your Ivy League kid steps in.
There are elite, good and mediocre colleges spread throughout the country. Most people don't know much about any elite colleges. DCUM posters seem to have quite limited knowledge of most colleges outside of the Ivy League and maybe NESCAC.

And you all don’t stereotype us so-called “coastal elites”? I’m damn sick of you telling me I don’t live in real America.

As the author of the above screed, I would like to make the obvious point that I never called out the 40% who live on the coasts. I only talked about the standard idiot posters on DCUM. Yes, you richly deserve the appellation of "provincial pseudo-elitist snobs."

Wow you’re a very angry person. On behalf of all the idiot posters on DCUM that you obviously can’t avoid reading, we are so very sorry.

DP here. It's a little funny to see east coast folks creating this fantasy that they're being discriminated against in this thread. Pretty thin-skinned if you ask me, considering that the derision and ridicule of folks from "flyover country" are way, way more pronounced than the other way around. Provincialism exists in equal measure in most parts of this country. I'm sorry but no one is ever going to convince me that someone from Boston or Philly (or even DC/NOVA) is more "sophisticated" than someone from, say, Chicago.

The difference is that while we might think you’re nothing but a bunch of rubes, we don’t deny that you’re American rubes.

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Anonymous wrote:What is "real America"? Honest question. Nearly 127M people live on the US East/West coasts, which makes it about 40% of the total population. Why do people insist on discounting 40% of the US population as not being the "real" America?

Maybe because you twits call 60% of America "flyover country.". Do you folk even read the drivel on DCUM? I won't send my kid to the South because of the racism... Wisky is Naziland... etc etc...
You expect people to worship the shit your Ivy League kid steps in.
There are elite, good and mediocre colleges spread throughout the country. Most people don't know much about any elite colleges. DCUM posters seem to have quite limited knowledge of most colleges outside of the Ivy League and maybe NESCAC.

And you all don’t stereotype us so-called “coastal elites”? I’m damn sick of you telling me I don’t live in real America.

As the author of the above screed, I would like to make the obvious point that I never called out the 40% who live on the coasts. I only talked about the standard idiot posters on DCUM. Yes, you richly deserve the appellation of "provincial pseudo-elitist snobs."

Wow you’re a very angry person. On behalf of all the idiot posters on DCUM that you obviously can’t avoid reading, we are so very sorry.

DP here. It's a little funny to see east coast folks creating this fantasy that they're being discriminated against in this thread. Pretty thin-skinned if you ask me, considering that the derision and ridicule of folks from "flyover country" are way, way more pronounced than the other way around. Provincialism exists in equal measure in most parts of this country. I'm sorry but no one is ever going to convince me that someone from Boston or Philly (or even DC/NOVA) is more "sophisticated" than someone from, say, Chicago.

The difference is that while we might think you’re nothing but a bunch of rubes, we don’t deny that you’re American rubes.

Yup. I have absolutely nothing against people who aren’t from the coasts, but if I say that I prefer to live in DC or NYC, it’s not because I don’t think the middle of the country is America.

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Anonymous wrote:What is "real America"? Honest question. Nearly 127M people live on the US East/West coasts, which makes it about 40% of the total population. Why do people insist on discounting 40% of the US population as not being the "real" America?

Maybe because you twits call 60% of America "flyover country.". Do you folk even read the drivel on DCUM? I won't send my kid to the South because of the racism... Wisky is Naziland... etc etc...
You expect people to worship the shit your Ivy League kid steps in.
There are elite, good and mediocre colleges spread throughout the country. Most people don't know much about any elite colleges. DCUM posters seem to have quite limited knowledge of most colleges outside of the Ivy League and maybe NESCAC.

And you all don’t stereotype us so-called “coastal elites”? I’m damn sick of you telling me I don’t live in real America.

As the author of the above screed, I would like to make the obvious point that I never called out the 40% who live on the coasts. I only talked about the standard idiot posters on DCUM. Yes, you richly deserve the appellation of "provincial pseudo-elitist snobs."

Wow you’re a very angry person. On behalf of all the idiot posters on DCUM that you obviously can’t avoid reading, we are so very sorry.

DP here. It's a little funny to see east coast folks creating this fantasy that they're being discriminated against in this thread. Pretty thin-skinned if you ask me, considering that the derision and ridicule of folks from "flyover country" are way, way more pronounced than the other way around. Provincialism exists in equal measure in most parts of this country. I'm sorry but no one is ever going to convince me that someone from Boston or Philly (or even DC/NOVA) is more "sophisticated" than someone from, say, Chicago.

The difference is that while we might think you’re nothing but a bunch of rubes, we don’t deny that you’re American rubes.

Yup. I have absolutely nothing against people who aren’t from the coasts, but if I say that I prefer to live in DC or NYC, it’s not because I don’t think the middle of the country is America.

For the record, I'm a New Yorker, but I don't agree with some of the baseless elitism that I see on DCUM and especially in the colleges forum. No one is saying you're not American or threatening to revoke your citizenship, calm down. What people CAN very reasonably say is that the world and experience that a certain subset of elitist snobs live in (certainly the ones who would stereotype any person not from the Northeast or West Coast as being "rubes") do not at all reflect the world and experience of the majority of Americans. So there ya go. If you're living in your tiny little bubble looking down at the rest of the country, I think the rest of the country has a little leeway to talk back a little. Don't worry, princess, it's nothing more serious than that.

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Anonymous wrote:What is "real America"? Honest question. Nearly 127M people live on the US East/West coasts, which makes it about 40% of the total population. Why do people insist on discounting 40% of the US population as not being the "real" America?

Maybe because you twits call 60% of America "flyover country.". Do you folk even read the drivel on DCUM? I won't send my kid to the South because of the racism... Wisky is Naziland... etc etc...
You expect people to worship the shit your Ivy League kid steps in.
There are elite, good and mediocre colleges spread throughout the country. Most people don't know much about any elite colleges. DCUM posters seem to have quite limited knowledge of most colleges outside of the Ivy League and maybe NESCAC.

And you all don’t stereotype us so-called “coastal elites”? I’m damn sick of you telling me I don’t live in real America.

As the author of the above screed, I would like to make the obvious point that I never called out the 40% who live on the coasts. I only talked about the standard idiot posters on DCUM. Yes, you richly deserve the appellation of "provincial pseudo-elitist snobs."

Wow you’re a very angry person. On behalf of all the idiot posters on DCUM that you obviously can’t avoid reading, we are so very sorry.

DP here. It's a little funny to see east coast folks creating this fantasy that they're being discriminated against in this thread. Pretty thin-skinned if you ask me, considering that the derision and ridicule of folks from "flyover country" are way, way more pronounced than the other way around. Provincialism exists in equal measure in most parts of this country. I'm sorry but no one is ever going to convince me that someone from Boston or Philly (or even DC/NOVA) is more "sophisticated" than someone from, say, Chicago.

+1,000
Well said. This has turned into quite an amusing thread.

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Anonymous wrote:What is "real America"? Honest question. Nearly 127M people live on the US East/West coasts, which makes it about 40% of the total population. Why do people insist on discounting 40% of the US population as not being the "real" America?

Maybe because you twits call 60% of America "flyover country.". Do you folk even read the drivel on DCUM? I won't send my kid to the South because of the racism... Wisky is Naziland... etc etc...
You expect people to worship the shit your Ivy League kid steps in.
There are elite, good and mediocre colleges spread throughout the country. Most people don't know much about any elite colleges. DCUM posters seem to have quite limited knowledge of most colleges outside of the Ivy League and maybe NESCAC.

And you all don’t stereotype us so-called “coastal elites”? I’m damn sick of you telling me I don’t live in real America.

As the author of the above screed, I would like to make the obvious point that I never called out the 40% who live on the coasts. I only talked about the standard idiot posters on DCUM. Yes, you richly deserve the appellation of "provincial pseudo-elitist snobs."

Wow you’re a very angry person. On behalf of all the idiot posters on DCUM that you obviously can’t avoid reading, we are so very sorry.

DP here. It's a little funny to see east coast folks creating this fantasy that they're being discriminated against in this thread. Pretty thin-skinned if you ask me, considering that the derision and ridicule of folks from "flyover country" are way, way more pronounced than the other way around. Provincialism exists in equal measure in most parts of this country. I'm sorry but no one is ever going to convince me that someone from Boston or Philly (or even DC/NOVA) is more "sophisticated" than someone from, say, Chicago.

The difference is that while we might think you’re nothing but a bunch of rubes, we don’t deny that you’re American rubes.

Ah, there it is! As usual, you don’t disappoint.
DP

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Anonymous wrote:What is "real America"? Honest question. Nearly 127M people live on the US East/West coasts, which makes it about 40% of the total population. Why do people insist on discounting 40% of the US population as not being the "real" America?

Maybe because you twits call 60% of America "flyover country.". Do you folk even read the drivel on DCUM? I won't send my kid to the South because of the racism... Wisky is Naziland... etc etc...
You expect people to worship the shit your Ivy League kid steps in.
There are elite, good and mediocre colleges spread throughout the country. Most people don't know much about any elite colleges. DCUM posters seem to have quite limited knowledge of most colleges outside of the Ivy League and maybe NESCAC.

And you all don’t stereotype us so-called “coastal elites”? I’m damn sick of you telling me I don’t live in real America.

As the author of the above screed, I would like to make the obvious point that I never called out the 40% who live on the coasts. I only talked about the standard idiot posters on DCUM. Yes, you richly deserve the appellation of "provincial pseudo-elitist snobs."

Wow you’re a very angry person. On behalf of all the idiot posters on DCUM that you obviously can’t avoid reading, we are so very sorry.

DP here. It's a little funny to see east coast folks creating this fantasy that they're being discriminated against in this thread. Pretty thin-skinned if you ask me, considering that the derision and ridicule of folks from "flyover country" are way, way more pronounced than the other way around. Provincialism exists in equal measure in most parts of this country. I'm sorry but no one is ever going to convince me that someone from Boston or Philly (or even DC/NOVA) is more "sophisticated" than someone from, say, Chicago.

The difference is that while we might think you’re nothing but a bunch of rubes, we don’t deny that you’re American rubes.

Yup. I have absolutely nothing against people who aren’t from the coasts, but if I say that I prefer to live in DC or NYC, it’s not because I don’t think the middle of the country is America.

For the record, I'm a New Yorker, but I don't agree with some of the baseless elitism that I see on DCUM and especially in the colleges forum. No one is saying you're not American or threatening to revoke your citizenship, calm down. What people CAN very reasonably say is that the world and experience that a certain subset of elitist snobs live in (certainly the ones who would stereotype any person not from the Northeast or West Coast as being "rubes") do not at all reflect the world and experience of the majority of Americans. So there ya go. If you're living in your tiny little bubble looking down at the rest of the country, I think the rest of the country has a little leeway to talk back a little. Don't worry, princess, it's nothing more serious than that.

THIS.

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Anonymous wrote:What is "real America"? Honest question. Nearly 127M people live on the US East/West coasts, which makes it about 40% of the total population. Why do people insist on discounting 40% of the US population as not being the "real" America?

Maybe because you twits call 60% of America "flyover country.". Do you folk even read the drivel on DCUM? I won't send my kid to the South because of the racism... Wisky is Naziland... etc etc...
You expect people to worship the shit your Ivy League kid steps in.
There are elite, good and mediocre colleges spread throughout the country. Most people don't know much about any elite colleges. DCUM posters seem to have quite limited knowledge of most colleges outside of the Ivy League and maybe NESCAC.

And you all don’t stereotype us so-called “coastal elites”? I’m damn sick of you telling me I don’t live in real America.

As the author of the above screed, I would like to make the obvious point that I never called out the 40% who live on the coasts. I only talked about the standard idiot posters on DCUM. Yes, you richly deserve the appellation of "provincial pseudo-elitist snobs."

Wow you’re a very angry person. On behalf of all the idiot posters on DCUM that you obviously can’t avoid reading, we are so very sorry.

DP here. It's a little funny to see east coast folks creating this fantasy that they're being discriminated against in this thread. Pretty thin-skinned if you ask me, considering that the derision and ridicule of folks from "flyover country" are way, way more pronounced than the other way around. Provincialism exists in equal measure in most parts of this country. I'm sorry but no one is ever going to convince me that someone from Boston or Philly (or even DC/NOVA) is more "sophisticated" than someone from, say, Chicago.

The difference is that while we might think you’re nothing but a bunch of rubes, we don’t deny that you’re American rubes.

Yup. I have absolutely nothing against people who aren’t from the coasts, but if I say that I prefer to live in DC or NYC, it’s not because I don’t think the middle of the country is America.

For the record, I'm a New Yorker, but I don't agree with some of the baseless elitism that I see on DCUM and especially in the colleges forum. No one is saying you're not American or threatening to revoke your citizenship, calm down. What people CAN very reasonably say is that the world and experience that a certain subset of elitist snobs live in (certainly the ones who would stereotype any person not from the Northeast or West Coast as being "rubes") do not at all reflect the world and experience of the majority of Americans. So there ya go. If you're living in your tiny little bubble looking down at the rest of the country, I think the rest of the country has a little leeway to talk back a little. Don't worry, princess, it's nothing more serious than that.

I’m a New Yorker too.

You can call someone elitist without saying they’re not a real American. One is descriptive; the other is truly awful.

Also, once again: I have nothing against people who aren’t from the coasts. The fact that you keep describing me as though I do suggests to me that you yourself harbor those viewpoints.

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Anonymous wrote:What is "real America"? Honest question. Nearly 127M people live on the US East/West coasts, which makes it about 40% of the total population. Why do people insist on discounting 40% of the US population as not being the "real" America?

Maybe because you twits call 60% of America "flyover country.". Do you folk even read the drivel on DCUM? I won't send my kid to the South because of the racism... Wisky is Naziland... etc etc...
You expect people to worship the shit your Ivy League kid steps in.
There are elite, good and mediocre colleges spread throughout the country. Most people don't know much about any elite colleges. DCUM posters seem to have quite limited knowledge of most colleges outside of the Ivy League and maybe NESCAC.

And you all don’t stereotype us so-called “coastal elites”? I’m damn sick of you telling me I don’t live in real America.

As the author of the above screed, I would like to make the obvious point that I never called out the 40% who live on the coasts. I only talked about the standard idiot posters on DCUM. Yes, you richly deserve the appellation of "provincial pseudo-elitist snobs."

Wow you’re a very angry person. On behalf of all the idiot posters on DCUM that you obviously can’t avoid reading, we are so very sorry.

DP here. It's a little funny to see east coast folks creating this fantasy that they're being discriminated against in this thread. Pretty thin-skinned if you ask me, considering that the derision and ridicule of folks from "flyover country" are way, way more pronounced than the other way around. Provincialism exists in equal measure in most parts of this country. I'm sorry but no one is ever going to convince me that someone from Boston or Philly (or even DC/NOVA) is more "sophisticated" than someone from, say, Chicago.

The difference is that while we might think you’re nothing but a bunch of rubes, we don’t deny that you’re American rubes.

Yup. I have absolutely nothing against people who aren’t from the coasts, but if I say that I prefer to live in DC or NYC, it’s not because I don’t think the middle of the country is America.

For the record, I'm a New Yorker, but I don't agree with some of the baseless elitism that I see on DCUM and especially in the colleges forum. No one is saying you're not American or threatening to revoke your citizenship, calm down. What people CAN very reasonably say is that the world and experience that a certain subset of elitist snobs live in (certainly the ones who would stereotype any person not from the Northeast or West Coast as being "rubes") do not at all reflect the world and experience of the majority of Americans. So there ya go. If you're living in your tiny little bubble looking down at the rest of the country, I think the rest of the country has a little leeway to talk back a little. Don't worry, princess, it's nothing more serious than that.

I’m a New Yorker too.

You can call someone elitist without saying they’re not a real American. One is descriptive; the other is truly awful.

Also, once again: I have nothing against people who aren’t from the coasts. The fact that you keep describing me as though I do suggests to me that you yourself harbor those viewpoints.

Ah, yes, because what on earth could possibly be worse than not being an American? I shudder to think of how “awful” it must be to be anything but.

If that isn’t the most small-minded and rube-tastic thing I’ve heard.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I live in "real America" and no one here has heard of my elite liberal arts college or any of the other elite liberal arts colleges. Amherst (not where I went, but similar, just to give you an example) means ABSOLUTELY NOTHING. People think you must've gone to a random school that's obviously worse than Ohio State (etc.). People would definitely impressed by Harvard, Yale, Stanford, MIT, flagship state schools. I am honestly not sure a lot of people here would even know what Princeton or Duke or Vanderbilt is.

I live in Montgomery County and 70% of people have never heard of Amherst.

Except 100% of those hiring for jobs $75K and above have.

[Anonymous]

If you are in Ohio, you go aspire to Ohio State and you hate Michigan; similarly if you live in Michigan, you aspire to UMich with Mich State as a backup and dispose the state of Ohio. Iowa? techie, you go to ISU, otherwise, UIowa.

That is you aspire to the state school. Alabama: Auburn or Alabama (and you hate the other). Clemson or USC SC; NC has UNC or NC State.

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