Thoughts on the University of South Carolina?

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For DMV kids who went to USC, do most end up with jobs in the south?

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Isn’t that exactly what you expect conservatives to do in liberal schools?

You realize there are intelligent students there, it’s not anti-intellectual. Also the campus is quite liberal. The president of the school sued the state governor over COVID rules.

Racist were protesting on campus (it’s next to the capitol) and students counter protested.

There is racism but it’s not the school, teachers, administrators. It’s not the culture of the school it’s the culture of the south.

Are you saying the Ivy League schools have no racism? Sexism? Asian hate? Really?

You think there are valuable intelligent non racist conservatives?

Why don't you read the prior posts and dial down your sense of conservative victimhood? A prior comment noted that a DMV student who matriculated at South Carolina (presumably willingly, presumably understanding the campus was more conservative than many others given its region) was surprised and dismayed by the racist and sexist and anti-LGBTQ and anti-semitic and anti-intellectual attitudes -- not by "conservativism" (they're not synonymous) -- he encountered there among many of the fellow students, and transferred after a year. Yes, that's probably less the case for the university's teachers and the administrators (not generally a bigoted crowd) than it is for the students, who are a product of their state/region, and those attitudes probably aren't universal among every single member of the student body - but they were pronounced enough that it drove that kid to transfer. An experience other DMV students might want to bear in mind.

You can keep moaning about unfair life is to conservatives -- which in view of the prior postings suggests to readers here that when you say "conservative" you actually mean sexist, racist, homophobic and anti-semitic (do you really want to be championing those attitudes?) -- or you can do what most elected conservatives do and draw a clear distinction between conservative thinking and bigotry (presumably what you mean by 'valuable intelligent non-racist conservatives'). Up to you. But espousing two conflicting positions in your one posting is incoherent -- and is actually not a great ad for the kind of defensive boosterism that USC attracts.

Nobody said anything about victimhood except you, and 1 student could not handle being around other students who expressed racist ideology. They weren’t even a victim of it they just couldn’t stand that it exist. Seriously you need to read white fragility.

Black students literally can’t go to any university except an HBCU.

What?

And see racism, yes. GMAFB if you don’t know this. Even the liberal Ivy NE schools. Black students deal with this EVERYWHERE.

The south has far more Black residents than the north.

And… ?

Theoretically a Black student would feel more comfortable in the South.

lol wut?

Not difficult to understand.

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Anonymous wrote:It’s in SC. They recently made the news for wanting to execute anyone who has an abortion.

That’s a hard no

This is so foolish.

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Anonymous wrote:As a parent paying for my DCs' colleges, there is no way my money is going to a Trump/Red state school. Personal preference.

Trust me when I say that neither you, nor your money, will be missed.

doctors and academics are going to start leaving these states or not considering them at all

so while you might think people choosing to avoid colleges is silly, get back to me in 5-10 years when the full effects of the draconian laws being passed are actually felt

They are not. No one already in state is going to leave. And despite all this SC has had tons more move in this year.

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Anonymous wrote:As a parent paying for my DCs' colleges, there is no way my money is going to a Trump/Red state school. Personal preference.

Trust me when I say that neither you, nor your money, will be missed.

doctors and academics are going to start leaving these states or not considering them at all

so while you might think people choosing to avoid colleges is silly, get back to me in 5-10 years when the full effects of the draconian laws being passed are actually felt

Have you seen population trends in the sun belt vs New England and the rust belt?

that was pre-Dobbs, but ok

There have been and will not be changes because this is where the jobs are -- Texas/SC/NC/Georgia/Florida.

[Anonymous]

Back to the original question of thoughts about the University of South Carolina.

It is, by all accounts, a great school that will be a fit for some, and not others.
The problem with UofSC is it doesn't conform to the (hypocritical) standards of the DCUM hive mindset. It isn't HYP, etc. It doesn't need to be.
It is a state flagship university, with the #1 International Business School in the nation.
It is a SEC school with a fun sports atmosphere. The mascot is the "Gamecock." Which is very publicly shorted to "Cocks". If that offends you, I guess you should go somewhere else.
It is in a "southern red state" (gasp). But Trump has been out of office for over two years and was recently indicted (maybe time to find a different bogey-man). I'm not sure how that impacts the university.
There is racism everywhere (not just South Carolina, yes, even in your DCUM "safe" enclave, yes, even at HYP, etc), and that is absolutely wrong and terrible. But that also doesn't mean everyone there is a racist. The vast majority (guessing 99%+) are not racists.

Go visit. If it fits for you, go for it. If not, enjoy your time somewhere else.

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For one it is South Carolina where the death penalty for abortions lives

Sure your kid won’t ever have sex.,,

Who sends a kid to SC at this juncture seriously stupid

But hey paying OOS to a school your kid can not graduate from and get a hood job is amazing parenting. OOS South Carolina is worth zip

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My parents tried to retire to sc and wound up leaving. One of their reasons? Open racism. They were disgusted

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Anonymous wrote:My parents tried to retire to sc and wound up leaving. One of their reasons? Open racism. They were disgusted

Where in South Carolina ?

I ask because I have a dream of retiring in Charleston, SC.

Thank you in advance for your response.

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Anonymous wrote:My parents tried to retire to sc and wound up leaving. One of their reasons? Open racism. They were disgusted

Where in South Carolina ?

I ask because I have a dream of retiring in Charleston, SC.

Thank you in advance for your response.

Myrtle Beach area

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Anonymous wrote:Back to the original question of thoughts about the University of South Carolina.

It is, by all accounts, a great school that will be a fit for some, and not others.
The problem with UofSC is it doesn't conform to the (hypocritical) standards of the DCUM hive mindset. It isn't HYP, etc. It doesn't need to be.
It is a state flagship university, with the #1 International Business School in the nation.
It is a SEC school with a fun sports atmosphere. The mascot is the "Gamecock." Which is very publicly shorted to "Cocks". If that offends you, I guess you should go somewhere else.
It is in a "southern red state" (gasp). But Trump has been out of office for over two years and was recently indicted (maybe time to find a different bogey-man). I'm not sure how that impacts the university.
There is racism everywhere (not just South Carolina, yes, even in your DCUM "safe" enclave, yes, even at HYP, etc), and that is absolutely wrong and terrible. But that also doesn't mean everyone there is a racist. The vast majority (guessing 99%+) are not racists.

Go visit. If it fits for you, go for it. If not, enjoy your time somewhere else.

? That's ridiculous. yes, usnwr is ridiculous.

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The south has far more Black residents than the north.

Not sure what point you thinks that proves -- there were many more Blacks in the South than the North during the slavery and Jim Crow/lynching eras, and that hardly suggested the South offered a model of race-relations during those eras -- but you can't even get your facts right, because the Black share of the population is higher in Maryland and in DC than in South Carolina, and while the percentage is a bit lower in Virginia there are in fact more Blacks in Virginia than in South Carolina as well.

Don't try to turn this into a culture war you're not intellectually equipped to win. This is about the University of South Carolina, only. It's a reputable flagship state university (#115 on the USNWR list), with some well-known programs -- that's all widely available information. From a DMV perspective -- which is why people come to DCUM -- there are some DMV students who've gone there, been struck by a stronger streak of racist (and other bigoted) attitudes among the students than they expected, and transferred out. People can try to minimize that actual experience ('they're snowflakes!') or engage in whataboutism ('what about racism in the North?' - well, the student cited in a prior post transferred to a college in the North and didn't apparently encounter the same issues) - but all that does is suggest that South Carolina is a university whose boosters ignore or try to minimize or rationalize away lingering evidence of racism and bigotry on campus. Which is hardly an encouraging signal to those DMVers for whom it might actually be a consideration.

That said, some potential applicants might think, this is the right school for me, because of the programs, price, and admissions policy (or other factors), and I'm bound to find some like-minded people to befriend among the 35 thousand students in Columbia. That's certainly a legit decision for them to make, but they should know that going there from the DMV is likely to be a greater culture shock than the university's carefully curated website suggests.

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Is the anecdotal racism surrounding USC and SC that much more than other places like LSU, Bama, and Ole Miss?

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Anonymous wrote:Is the anecdotal racism surrounding USC and SC that much more than other places like LSU, Bama, and Ole Miss?

My suspicion is no

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Anonymous wrote:It seems very popular these days with kids from the DMV.

.... who can't get in anywhere else.

You are a s**t.