what "good" college did you attend but would not necessarily recommend to your kids or others?

[Anonymous]

Went to UVA and it is a hellhole.

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Anonymous wrote:Georgetown - Graduated in 1989. The school hasn't repaired, replaced or updated one single thing since I was there. Even the graffiti is still there. The same old broken stair railing too !!

They updated some rooms in White-Gravenor. there is tons of new construction since 1989. TONS!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yale. Depressing. Draconian liquor laws

Not sure about the liquor laws, assuming the legal drinking age is 21 just like everywhere else in USA. But I agree that I would not want my kids to go there. It has this enormous endowment, but they don't seem to be able to spend it wisely.
--Yale alum

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Georgetown - Graduated in 1989. The school hasn't repaired, replaced or updated one single thing since I was there. Even the graffiti is still there. The same old broken stair railing too !!

They updated some rooms in White-Gravenor. there is tons of new construction since 1989. TONS!

But the old crap is still old and crappy. Yep a few rooms here, a sports field there. It's so very run down for the price. I literally noticed some of the exact same issues from 1989.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yale. Depressing. Draconian liquor laws

Not sure about the liquor laws, assuming the legal drinking age is 21 just like everywhere else in USA. But I agree that I would not want my kids to go there. It has this enormous endowment, but they don't seem to be able to spend it wisely.
--Yale alum

Can you explain this complaint a little more? You want your kids at a place that makes better use of the endowment in what way?

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yale. Depressing. Draconian liquor laws

Not sure about the liquor laws, assuming the legal drinking age is 21 just like everywhere else in USA. But I agree that I would not want my kids to go there. It has this enormous endowment, but they don't seem to be able to spend it wisely.
--Yale alum

Back in the day, you couldn't buy beer after 8pm and the bars closed at 1pm. You can see where my priorities were.

Re endowment, just got a mailing announcing the start of a $7B fundraising campaign. No idea why they need that much more or what they plan to do with it...

[Anonymous]

University of Chicago (statistics). Cut throat, kids depressed and stressed, winter too long, professors often inaccessible. Will not want my kids to apply. I would prefer them to go to a less intense school and be happy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:University of Chicago (statistics). Cut throat, kids depressed and stressed, winter too long, professors often inaccessible. Will not want my kids to apply. I would prefer them to go to a less intense school and be happy.

Every UChicago alum I've spoken to, young and old, seem to say the same thing. And yet it gets so many applicants year on year.

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Anonymous wrote:I wish there were a way to validate that the responses are actually coming from people who attended the colleges they are now denigrating.

Oh relax. It is an anonymous chat forum. Take everything with a grain of salt for crying out loud.

Plus, like most experiences in life, it is so subjective. Different strokes for different folks may be cliche' but it really is the truth.

[Anonymous]

There are a few specific comments about being a woman at Georgetown and notre dame. These comments caused posters upset and lots of other comments about other schools seemed to just be accepted as run of the mill dcum posts. I think it is the reaction to the posts that seems like the imposters here, not the original posters.

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Anonymous wrote:There are a few specific comments about being a woman at Georgetown and notre dame. These comments caused posters upset and lots of other comments about other schools seemed to just be accepted as run of the mill dcum posts. I think it is the reaction to the posts that seems like the imposters here, not the original posters.

Nope, the reaction was to a poster misrepresenting him/herself as an alum to trash a school. Poster clearly is not an alum because he/she didn't even realize that Notre Dame is Holy Cross, not Jesuit. That's like an alum forgetting what the mascot was for their sports teams. It is simply very unlikely that an alum would mistaken Notre Dame as being a Jesuit institution. Therefore, these are trolls coming on here just to trash a school they hate. These are the people that are discussed in this thread https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/1023444.page

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There are a few specific comments about being a woman at Georgetown and notre dame. These comments caused posters upset and lots of other comments about other schools seemed to just be accepted as run of the mill dcum posts. I think it is the reaction to the posts that seems like the imposters here, not the original posters.

Nope, the reaction was to a poster misrepresenting him/herself as an alum to trash a school. Poster clearly is not an alum because he/she didn't even realize that Notre Dame is Holy Cross, not Jesuit. That's like an alum forgetting what the mascot was for their sports teams. It is simply very unlikely that an alum would mistaken Notre Dame as being a Jesuit institution. Therefore, these are trolls coming on here just to trash a school they hate. These are the people that are discussed in this thread https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/1023444.page

Who knows with anonymous posters but my complaint about being female at Georgetown is legit so I don't see why is so outrageous to think someone could have a similar experience at notre dame.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Interesting - UC Berkeley sounds a lot like UCSD.

My spouse was a science major at UCSD, and had his first and only panic attack when we visited the campus 15 years after he graduated. The price (back then) was fantastic, but otherwise it sounds like it was a malignant pressure cooker filled with vicious premeds.

These stories are interesting coming from a flipside large public. I went to University of Arizona, there also was no comradery, people showing up to class but not interacting, and there were weaselly engineering students jockeying for position. But they were more the dumb, lazy variety always, "is this on the test?" curves where 20% was high passing, occasional student caught pulling fire alarms on test day, etc. For anyone motivated, there was boundless encouragement from professors, and opportunities. I feel like my education was very good, but almost zero academic interaction with peers. Certainly didn't recommend it to my kids.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There are a few specific comments about being a woman at Georgetown and notre dame. These comments caused posters upset and lots of other comments about other schools seemed to just be accepted as run of the mill dcum posts. I think it is the reaction to the posts that seems like the imposters here, not the original posters.

Nope, the reaction was to a poster misrepresenting him/herself as an alum to trash a school. Poster clearly is not an alum because he/she didn't even realize that Notre Dame is Holy Cross, not Jesuit. That's like an alum forgetting what the mascot was for their sports teams. It is simply very unlikely that an alum would mistaken Notre Dame as being a Jesuit institution. Therefore, these are trolls coming on here just to trash a school they hate. These are the people that are discussed in this thread https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/1023444.page

Who knows with anonymous posters but my complaint about being female at Georgetown is legit so I don't see why is so outrageous to think someone could have a similar experience at notre dame.

Except the person who claimed they she had that experience was clearly not an ND alum.

[Anonymous]

Clearly is not a word I would use for any post on dcum ever.