Would a Hillsdale graduate have reduced professional opportunities?

[Anonymous]

If you are going to be sitting next to someone for 8 hours a day, you have an interest in what they are like personally. (Hell, when I was a trial attorney, I resisted going to trial with certain folks because I didn't want to be stuck in a courtroom with them all day.) Almost every educated person will have an opinion on conservative nationalism.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No. It’s a perfectly good liberal arts school.

+1
The crowd on this forum are of course going to trash it, but luckily, they only represent a tiny sliver of our population. Hillsdale is a highly regarded SLAC with a 21% acceptance rate. The students who choose it are highly academic and motivated. I love the classical liberal arts curriculum and would have been very happy if any of my kids chose to go there.

Your perspective is well taken, but I think that it’s a significant issue that the crowd on this forum represents a considerable amount of hiring power in a major job hub. -OP

LOL! Sure, pal.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My son is clean cut/strait laced. He’s not particularly into politics. However, he likes the traditional atmosphere at Hillsdale.

I think that it would definitely limit his employment and professional prospects to graduate from this school. Certainly my colleagues from the Bethesda area would trash his resume.

Curious if others agree.

What exactly are you asking for when you mean the traditional atmosphere? Do you just mean no drinking or parties? Religious?

[Anonymous]

Yes, this one isn’t rocket science.

[Anonymous]

There are other colleges that are politically purple, have a more traditional vibe, but not as conservative as Hillsdale.
Has he looked at Washington & Lee?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What is wrong with Notre Dame?

They have republicans there. Not more than Democrats (more students, in surveys, say they are Democrats than Republicans), but there are definitely present and vocal conservative students, and lots of conservative alumni.

Oh no! Whatever shall we do?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There are so many flaws in this argument that I can see why a degree from here would limit kids in the non-maga world. Reasoning is clearly not valued.

https://imprimis.hillsdale.edu/launching-a-second-scientific-revolution/

You are admitting what is already abundantly obvious - you're unable to follow along with what is a clearly reasoned argument. I mean, seriously?

And you are proving that you drank the Kook-aid.

[Anonymous]

Hillsdale pre 2000 was a conservative LAC school, nice traditional campus, rural Michigan vibe, greek scene, good times.

Post 2000 Hillsdale remade itself into the Heritage Foundation mold. Old brick buildings were razed for new junk buildings, green spaces were filled, small LAC vibe totally disappeared.

It essentially has morphed into a propaganda machine for those who believe USA should be a theocratic, Christian nation and they are willing to do whatever it takes to destroy the constitution and country to make that goal.

[Anonymous]

I live in Michigan.

I have a very nice and smart colleague whose family must be conservative. She sent her kids to daycare (so she wasn't a conservative SAHM) but eventually they all went to Catholic high school. I know this because her kids' school was actually much more functional during the pandemic than my kids' public high school.

Her oldest went to Hillsdale, graduated recently, and got a good job in accounting with a name company.

I think it's sufficient success for them.

Just wanted to present a factual anecdote from in-state. I understand why this background would be a bigger issue in DC.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Hillsdale pre 2000 was a conservative LAC school, nice traditional campus, rural Michigan vibe, greek scene, good times.

Post 2000 Hillsdale remade itself into the Heritage Foundation mold. Old brick buildings were razed for new junk buildings, green spaces were filled, small LAC vibe totally disappeared.

It essentially has morphed into a propaganda machine for those who believe USA should be a theocratic, Christian nation and they are willing to do whatever it takes to destroy the constitution and country to make that goal.

What a clueless comment.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No. It’s a perfectly good liberal arts school.

+1
The crowd on this forum are of course going to trash it, but luckily, they only represent a tiny sliver of our population. Hillsdale is a highly regarded SLAC with a 21% acceptance rate. The students who choose it are highly academic and motivated. I love the classical liberal arts curriculum and would have been very happy if any of my kids chose to go there.

I wouldn’t have any problem with hiring someone who was very conservative but loyal to the United States.

I would have a problem with hiring someone who was racist, opposed to democracy or disloyal to the United States.

I think the way to solve this would be to go to Hillsdale and join a Ukraine support group and some kind of voting rights group.

Your perspective is well taken, but I think that it’s a significant issue that the crowd on this forum represents a considerable amount of hiring power in a major job hub. -OP

[Anonymous]

Hillsdale is on par with Prager U. one and the same. As poster noted above it essentially has become an extension of the Heritage Foundation. There is no diversity so if your son is not in the mold of Heritage, avoid Hillsdale.

Re outcomes it does have many DC connects but dark side money subversive vibes

[Anonymous]

Heritage has become a hot mess fwiw. Mirrors the GOP rot that Trumpism exploited as it became everything is claims to be against.

[Anonymous]

Other conservative but more “mainstream” alternatives- Furman, Wofford, Washington and Lee. Or honors programs at SEC schools

[Anonymous]

I know a couple Hillsdale grads, though not super recently. One went on to law school (not HYP, but still a good school). The other works in academia in a very liberal state