LACs with the WORST locations

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Anonymous wrote:Despite having beautiful campuses, Kenyon College, Bates College, Grinnell College, Holy Cross, Trinity College, Rhodes College (dangerous city), Clarkson University, St. Lawrence University, Knox College, are some LACs with undesirable locations.

I think "undesirable locations" is in the eye of the beholder. My kid is at one of these "undesirable locations" and loves the community that the remoteness fosters and the tiny village she walks through every day to get to class.

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Anonymous wrote:The area driving to Washington & Lee had confederate flags. We didn’t arrive from DC so maybe we took an unfortunate route but it was a hard no. We weren’t even college touring yet.

I always hear this twaddle, but I didn’t see any when I was there and it has nothing to do with the college anyway.

Remind me - who was Lee?

If you think the faculty and students are Confederate-loving racists, you are truly an ignorant moron who has never been there.

No one said that. And you make the institution look bad with your name calling. Personally, I would not attend the school given the board’s handling of the name issue.

We are a Jewish family. One of my DC's willing to look at schools in the South, but ended up in the Midwest. The other politely looked at a range of southern schools with sibling, then indicated that they would not apply to a southern school. That's just how it is sometimes. W+L may have made a lot of changes, but as long as the name remains the same, DC wondered how welcoming it would truly be.

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williams by far the worst we visited. DC was a recruited athlete and a hard no after the overnight. At least Bowdoin has the ocean nearby - and Middletown can be considered shabby chic, ton of great restaurants there..

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Conn College is not right in New London, which is admittedly not a great town. The area it's in is nice enough, and the campus (including a 500-acre arboretum) is beautiful.

It is right in New London. A two minute drive from the ferry. Not a thing to do there. Drive to Providence at best. Or hop on the ferry plus the south/north ferries and you’re in the Hamptons.

Each student gets something like four free Uber rides a month. Mystic is less than 15 minutes away.

There are several nice beaches within a 10-15 minute drive; it’s a nice area to go to school.

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No one said that. And you make the institution look bad with your name calling. Personally, I would not attend the school given the board’s handling of the name issue.

Well then, I guess you would also cross Georgetown, GW, Yale and many others off your list? And don’t visit Leesburg! This level of cancel culture is just ridiculous. You can acknowledge that people had both good and bad qualities and can educate about and learn from both without pretending they never existed.

Lee was a traitor of the worst kind. And as far as I know, there's no requirement to have a college named in one's honor to be remembered in the historical record.

Lee did nothing that Washington didn't do. They'd better cancel his name from the college too.

Is the subject of this thread "which college has the worst name"? No, and the name of the college is irrelevant to the location.

Ok what??? Lee led the Confederate Army that was rebelling against the US Govt.

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No one said that. And you make the institution look bad with your name calling. Personally, I would not attend the school given the board’s handling of the name issue.

Well then, I guess you would also cross Georgetown, GW, Yale and many others off your list? And don’t visit Leesburg! This level of cancel culture is just ridiculous. You can acknowledge that people had both good and bad qualities and can educate about and learn from both without pretending they never existed.

Lee was a traitor of the worst kind. And as far as I know, there's no requirement to have a college named in one's honor to be remembered in the historical record.

Lee did nothing that Washington didn't do. They'd better cancel his name from the college too.

Is the subject of this thread "which college has the worst name"? No, and the name of the college is irrelevant to the location.

Ok what??? Lee led the Confederate Army that was rebelling against the US Govt.

NP: so everybody involved in the civil war from the south (which was pretty much everyone from the south) was a traitor? You have a pretty narrow perspective. Do you want to cancel Davidson too? Another college named after a civil war general.

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No one said that. And you make the institution look bad with your name calling. Personally, I would not attend the school given the board’s handling of the name issue.

Well then, I guess you would also cross Georgetown, GW, Yale and many others off your list? And don’t visit Leesburg! This level of cancel culture is just ridiculous. You can acknowledge that people had both good and bad qualities and can educate about and learn from both without pretending they never existed.

Lee was a traitor of the worst kind. And as far as I know, there's no requirement to have a college named in one's honor to be remembered in the historical record.

Lee did nothing that Washington didn't do. They'd better cancel his name from the college too.

Is the subject of this thread "which college has the worst name"? No, and the name of the college is irrelevant to the location.

Ok what??? Lee led the Confederate Army that was rebelling against the US Govt.

Yeah, and Washington led the rebellion against the British government - he was a traitor.

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No one said that. And you make the institution look bad with your name calling. Personally, I would not attend the school given the board’s handling of the name issue.

Well then, I guess you would also cross Georgetown, GW, Yale and many others off your list? And don’t visit Leesburg! This level of cancel culture is just ridiculous. You can acknowledge that people had both good and bad qualities and can educate about and learn from both without pretending they never existed.

Lee was a traitor of the worst kind. And as far as I know, there's no requirement to have a college named in one's honor to be remembered in the historical record.

Lee did nothing that Washington didn't do. They'd better cancel his name from the college too.

Is the subject of this thread "which college has the worst name"? No, and the name of the college is irrelevant to the location.

Ok what??? Lee led the Confederate Army that was rebelling against the US Govt.

Yeah, and Washington led the rebellion against the British government - he was a traitor.

Right, and I'm not aware that there's a "Washington University" in the UK.

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No one said that. And you make the institution look bad with your name calling. Personally, I would not attend the school given the board’s handling of the name issue.

Well then, I guess you would also cross Georgetown, GW, Yale and many others off your list? And don’t visit Leesburg! This level of cancel culture is just ridiculous. You can acknowledge that people had both good and bad qualities and can educate about and learn from both without pretending they never existed.

Lee was a traitor of the worst kind. And as far as I know, there's no requirement to have a college named in one's honor to be remembered in the historical record.

He was a General in the civil war. Davidson College is also named after a southern civil war general. He died in the war and was less famous so nobody focuses on the name of Davidson.

? What I find says a Revolutionary War General who died before the Civil War began.

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You cannot possibly do worse than Knox College in Illinois. It's midway between Peoria and the Quad Cities, and 3 hours to the closest major airport (O'Hare).

I think Texas Tech, which is not a LAC, has to be mentioned in any discussion of "worst location."

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Anonymous wrote:You cannot possibly do worse than Knox College in Illinois. It's midway between Peoria and the Quad Cities, and 3 hours to the closest major airport (O'Hare).

I think Texas Tech, which is not a LAC, has to be mentioned in any discussion of "worst location."

I went there and agree the location (and weather) was terrible! However, the complete lack of anything else to do, combined with a very small student body, made for very close bonding and "make your own fun" activities. Also, nothing/nowhere to spend money, zero social pressure to have all the nice things or dress a certain way. So many academic opportunities, clubs, rec sports teams, etc. and because it was so small you could do almost anything without having to try out or make a major time commitment. I got research grants and did summer research, which helped me get into grad school. We socialized with our professors, they would have students over for dinner and stuff. Just really down to earth and chill people. The best tradition was "flunk day" where they canceled classes for the day (by waking everyone up in the dorms at dawn) and had a huge party day with music, games, etc. I had a blast there!

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No one said that. And you make the institution look bad with your name calling. Personally, I would not attend the school given the board’s handling of the name issue.

Well then, I guess you would also cross Georgetown, GW, Yale and many others off your list? And don’t visit Leesburg! This level of cancel culture is just ridiculous. You can acknowledge that people had both good and bad qualities and can educate about and learn from both without pretending they never existed.

Lee was a traitor of the worst kind. And as far as I know, there's no requirement to have a college named in one's honor to be remembered in the historical record.

He was a General in the civil war. Davidson College is also named after a southern civil war general. He died in the war and was less famous so nobody focuses on the name of Davidson.

? What I find says a Revolutionary War General who died before the Civil War began.

Thank you for showing that the previous poster is dead wrong.

Changing the facts to fit his narrative! So MAGA!!

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I think Texas Tech, which is not a LAC, has to be mentioned in any discussion of "worst location."

It’s not for everyone, but I really liked Lubbock (which has a population of over 300k, so it’s not like it’s a small town) and the West Texas plains around it. Would take that over an SLAC outside a small decaying NE/MW town any day.

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Anonymous wrote:You cannot possibly do worse than Knox College in Illinois. It's midway between Peoria and the Quad Cities, and 3 hours to the closest major airport (O'Hare).

I think Texas Tech, which is not a LAC, has to be mentioned in any discussion of "worst location."

I went there and agree the location (and weather) was terrible! However, the complete lack of anything else to do, combined with a very small student body, made for very close bonding and "make your own fun" activities. Also, nothing/nowhere to spend money, zero social pressure to have all the nice things or dress a certain way. So many academic opportunities, clubs, rec sports teams, etc. and because it was so small you could do almost anything without having to try out or make a major time commitment. I got research grants and did summer research, which helped me get into grad school. We socialized with our professors, they would have students over for dinner and stuff. Just really down to earth and chill people. The best tradition was "flunk day" where they canceled classes for the day (by waking everyone up in the dorms at dawn) and had a huge party day with music, games, etc. I had a blast there!

DP. This sounds so fun! I looked it up and it has a beautiful campus.

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The area driving to Washington & Lee had confederate flags. We didn’t arrive from DC so maybe we took an unfortunate route but it was a hard no. We weren’t even college touring yet.

This is the most shallow reason I have ever heard for disliking a college - “I was offended on the drive there ” lol.

We are white and I used to shudder driving a car of young black and white soccer players to tournaments south of Richmond with confederate flags along the way. This may be shallow for you, but not for a kid whose grandparents left the south after having a family member lynched.

DP. So I guess you never drive south of Richmond to go anywhere - beaches, vacation, family trips - nothing. What a narrow existence you must live.

Many of us prefer to avoid those who are nostalgic for the slave era.

It is a very big country, with plenty of evolved regions.