SMU? Really?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:After not getting into ED Dartmouth, DS is thinking of applying (and likely committing) to SMU. Last year, while going on college tours, DS definitely loved the campus most, but me and DH are very concerned about job prospects of going to a non-elite school like SMU. DS definitely fits the student body profile, I have to admit. But there's something about this choice that is very disappointing.

‘Me and DH’…I can understand why your DS didn’t get into Dartmouth 😂

I was waiting for someone to say that! (I did not have it in me to be the a$$hole this morning!)

+2 It is a little jarring. Surprising a person with such poor grammar has a kid applying to an Ivy.

Somebody is a classist freak. Maybe you should have enrolled in SMU. You'd be welcome.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:After not getting into ED Dartmouth, DS is thinking of applying (and likely committing) to SMU. Last year, while going on college tours, DS definitely loved the campus most, but me and DH are very concerned about job prospects of going to a non-elite school like SMU. DS definitely fits the student body profile, I have to admit. But there's something about this choice that is very disappointing.

‘Me and DH’…I can understand why your DS didn’t get into Dartmouth 😂

I was waiting for someone to say that! (I did not have it in me to be the a$$hole this morning!)

+2 It is a little jarring. Surprising a person with such poor grammar has a kid applying to an Ivy.

Somebody is a classist freak. Maybe you should have enrolled in SMU. You'd be welcome.

Classist? It is basic 4th grade grammar.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:After not getting into ED Dartmouth, DS is thinking of applying (and likely committing) to SMU. Last year, while going on college tours, DS definitely loved the campus most, but me and DH are very concerned about job prospects of going to a non-elite school like SMU. DS definitely fits the student body profile, I have to admit. But there's something about this choice that is very disappointing.

‘Me and DH’…I can understand why your DS didn’t get into Dartmouth 😂

I was waiting for someone to say that! (I did not have it in me to be the a$$hole this morning!)

+2 It is a little jarring. Surprising a person with such poor grammar has a kid applying to an Ivy.

Somebody is a classist freak. Maybe you should have enrolled in SMU. You'd be welcome.

Classist? It is basic 4th grade grammar.

Anyone can be intelligent, no matter their parent's education. Seems the conservative trolls are back.

[Anonymous]

When OP submits her post to The New Yorker as an editorial, she can worry about grammar.
She's typing to moms in their pajamas, and I would bet half of you are drunk given the comments I'm reading.
I'm sure there's a grammatical error or a misplaced comma in there but IDGAF

[Anonymous]

I understand the disappointment. If your child is an attractive, white and rich, it may be a good fit.

[Anonymous]

If he likes SMU and has the stats for Dartmouth he should apply to USC. If he can swing living in LA. It is a lot like SMU in wealth campus feel and connections but 2.5x larger and has the same or more clout in its business school

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If he likes SMU and has the stats for Dartmouth he should apply to USC. If he can swing living in LA. It is a lot like SMU in wealth campus feel and connections but 2.5x larger and has the same or more clout in its business school

This is a great suggestion, op! Would recommend NYU too.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If he likes SMU and has the stats for Dartmouth he should apply to USC. If he can swing living in LA. It is a lot like SMU in wealth campus feel and connections but 2.5x larger and has the same or more clout in its business school

+100

[Anonymous]

For someone that has the stats for Dartmouth and is broadly interested in pursuing a business or corporate career, there are lots of options. In addition to USC and NYU, there's Cornell, Georgetown, Notre Dame, and WashU. Plus publics like Texas, Berkeley, UVA, and Indiana.

But there's nothing wrong with SMU. It is hugely popular with the 1 percenters. It might not be a bastion of intellectual fervor, but it's an excellent place to make connections, have a fun four years, and probably find a spouse too. There are many worse choices.

[Anonymous]

Cox is terrific. Signed not an SMU family.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Well it’s kind of a punchline but the kids who major in business and are in the right fraternities usually get good jobs.

That’s not because of the school it’s about family

[Anonymous]

If ED to Dartmouth, there are a lot more and a lot stronger undergrad business schools out there. Look at Poets and Quants.

USC is 10x better for business.

At least give Vanderbilt a shot.

The problem with some of the weaker colleges like Tulane and Emory is that RD is so much harder than ED because they fill up so much of the class ED.

USC only has EA so hopefully you have already applied to it.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:If he were a girl you’d be even more concerned. Do you want him to get a job down there and stay?

While I share your politics, as a parent who has sent two kids far from my home, people say this to me all the time. And what I say is "I hope they stay and make their own path. Nothing would make me happier than to know my kid created a new life for themselves with friends and a job they chose in a new city. Isn't that the point of all of this."

I would never be the parent who tried to make you feel badly about your kid going away to school. But since you asked (while making your retort)—my answer would be no, this is not the point of all this. At least not to me.
As one who married a man whose parents had raised him far away from his own grandparents, while I grew up with both sets of grandparents within 5 mikes if me, I was oblivious to what that would feel and look like to be so separated from family. But we moved out of state to give it a try and we’ve never been back except for visits once or twice a year. Now that we have our own kids, they don’t have that connection to their grandparents that I had to mine and it makes me sad for them. What’s wires is that it makes DH’s parents saddest of all because they encouraged their son to pursue his career wherever it takes him and they realize now in their 80s that it took him and all the family they have in the world away from them. For a time it was fine because they have their own life and friends, but those friends get older and start to die or you need help, it’s not the same as having a family network around you. Yes they are happy for him. But having no family close by can be isolating. Just another perspective.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Texas: no bodily freedom? Is that's what bothering you?

Give it a rest. You’re boring.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:After not getting into ED Dartmouth, DS is thinking of applying (and likely committing) to SMU. Last year, while going on college tours, DS definitely loved the campus most, but me and DH are very concerned about job prospects of going to a non-elite school like SMU. DS definitely fits the student body profile, I have to admit. But there's something about this choice that is very disappointing.

You’ve got to be effen kidding me. Outside of this pretentious echo chamber of DCUM, SMU is known to be a great school. Also known as a rich kids’ school, but a great school nonetheless.