What colleges do you have negative associations with and why?

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Anonymous wrote:The schools I think are absolute shite are the ones OP's kids attended.

Well, it’s telling which ones her kids didn’t get into .

Op - you might consider that I went to one of these schools myself… duh

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Anonymous wrote:All the schools that were popular in my HS: Wesleyan, Vassar, Brown, Cornell
I wanted to have nothing to do with anyone who went there.

Agree regarding Wesleyan University in Connecticut. Although I realize that this feeling may be unfair, every graduate of this school whom I know (only about a dozen) is creepy. I have engaged in discussions with them and they cannot deal with differing opinions. All resorted to name-calling rather than address the issue. These are folks who graduated decades ago and are well off financially, but very immature intellectually even though intelligent individuals.

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UVA. How do you know if you are meeting a UVA alumnus? Why, they’ll tell you so you can be certain.

I recall the mid 1980s trend of chopping off “of Virginia” from The University and so only displaying such on the car’s rear window.

Listen closely for casual introduction of the term “grounds.” Don’t forget, it’s Mr. Jefferson’s University and I’m saying this with an affected New England Lockjaw. IYKYK

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Liberty
Radford
Wofford
High Point

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Anonymous wrote:What's the point of this exercise other than to yuck someone else's yum. (And for the record, I don't have ties to either Michigan or Brown.)

This.

Be better

+1. Every school named is the dream school or ED choice of someone on here’s kid. I see discussing substantive problems. But what’s the point of “schools you just hate”? While kids are waiting for ED decisions.

Come on OP.

You need to get a grip. Your defensiveness says so much more about you than the OP. Stop feeding your dc with your obsession about ‘dream schools’ that are really 90 percent status driven for you.

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Anonymous wrote:Cornell because it struck me as so depressing when I visited in winter, like a gray rock of isolation and sadness.

Cornell University is an outstanding school, but several months during the academic year are overcast, dreary, cold, damp, and depressing. So, yes, weather can and often does affect one's impression of a school despite its otherwise stellar reputation.

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Anonymous wrote:Yes, let's start the day by trashing where literal teenagers go to pursue their educations and have fun, and start the list off by listing Michigan, which this board loves to pile on constantly, presumably because it's harder to get into every year despite being *public*. Get a life.

Get a grip. These literal teenagers should be able to deal with people having thoughts and opinions about things.

The teenagers aren't here. It's their parents trashing schools. Beyond pathetic.

You think high school kids don’t lurk here? Seriously?

Enough bad in the world right now. Why create more — for the sole purpose of creating more bad. Very George Orwell Two Minutes of Hate.

I don’t think high school kids lurk here, no. And if they do and can’t handle a silly post on colleges, they have bigger issues to deal with as the head off to college

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Liberty because of...well, everything

Not only are they crazy with their cultish beliefs, but they also had the creepy Falwell Jr and his swinger wife at the helm for quite a while. I will never get the image of Jr in the unbuttoned shorty shorts out of my head.

Not to mention being horrific on sexual abuse issues AND producing a serial killer.

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Anonymous wrote:Liberty
Radford
Wofford
High Point

you didn't explain any of these

No idea what your beef is with Wofford?

And Radford gets crapped on all the time here, but it is a lovely little school. I get that it isn't top dog academically, but I would have been proud to be a Radford parent had my daughter made that choice (it was her runner up)

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USC. Rich spoiled kids
Miami. Rich spoiled kids and influencers
Yale. Smart weirdos/socially inept
Tulane. Spoiled rich kids from the NE who want to party in the south for a few years before running back home to their UMC suburb

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USC: Endless academic and sports controversies, rich kids, obnoxious alumni, and stupid catchphrase.

Duke: Pink polo shirts, boat shoes, LAX bros, and Rohypnol.

Penn: Trump family finishing school.

Bama: I'm equally envious of their football success and annoyed by their fanbase.

Notre Dame: Great school, but I hated watch their underwhelming football teams continually snag prime bowl games in the 90's and 00's.

FWIW, I'm not serious about any of this and I don't pretend my negativity has a rationale basis.

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Anonymous wrote:Liberty
Radford
Wofford
High Point

you didn't explain any of these

No idea what your beef is with Wofford?

And Radford gets crapped on all the time here, but it is a lovely little school. I get that it isn't top dog academically, but I would have been proud to be a Radford parent had my daughter made that choice (it was her runner up)

+1. Had the same questions.

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Anonymous wrote:UVA. How do you know if you are meeting a UVA alumnus? Why, they’ll tell you so you can be certain.

I recall the mid 1980s trend of chopping off “of Virginia” from The University and so only displaying such on the car’s rear window.

Listen closely for casual introduction of the term “grounds.” Don’t forget, it’s Mr. Jefferson’s University and I’m saying this with an affected New England Lockjaw. IYKYK

My dad was so pissed and hated UVA for that 'The University' thing. lmaof. We were in-state and he thought they were so arrogant and didn't want any of us going there. Frankly, I think it was worse back in the 80s than today because so many more kids have Tech as the first choice with the push of STEM in the past few decades. And, yes, I went to VT in STEM. Female.

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Anonymous wrote:Mount Holyoke. Terrible interviewer asked me where we “summered”. I was a lower middle class kid from a small town. Did not feel welcome there.

That’s hysterical.
That’s a “Tell me I don’t belong here without telling me I don’t belong here” question.

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High Point University. Cultish, MAGA, fake college.