Tell us about Oberlin...

[Anonymous]

Especially for a private school, preppy. My DC is being recruited for a sport there. DC loves the coach and future teammates. It's probably the best school academically that is recruiting DC. But DC is definitely not the stereotypical Obie. What do you think?

[Anonymous]

Michelle Markin graduated from there, which moves it up a notch in my book. Still oppressively liberal, though.

[Anonymous]

My friends brother went there and came back home super racist. It was weird.

[Anonymous]

Lena Dunham.....enough said.

[Anonymous]

Would not want my child to attend a school where pretty much everyone has the exact some views and any sort of dissent from those views is not accepted.

[Anonymous]

All snark aside, it's "elite" right?

[Anonymous]

Used to be but is no longer.

I only consider 5 or so LACs to be elite- most of the others are getting out-rivaled by universities.

[Anonymous]

Compared to what? Harvard — no. Pepperdine — yes. It’s the kind of school no one holds against you, but it doesn’t make people assume you must be brilliant or exceptionally well-educated.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Compared to what? Harvard — no. Pepperdine — yes. It’s the kind of school no one holds against you, but it doesn’t make people assume you must be brilliant or exceptionally well-educated.

Just for some perspective the vast, vast majority of college graduates attend colleges where no one assumes your are brilliant. I attended an ivys for undergrad and grad but am impressed, challenged, and sometimes simply outclassed by colleagues who attended a variety of schools. College is a bit what you put in and not everyone is ready to kill it on the SAT at age 16/17.

[Anonymous]

PP you quoted. I agree. And would add that, in the handful of cases where particular schools do lead to such assumptions, they often aren’t warranted.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:All snark aside, it's "elite" right?

I dunno. What does that mean.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:All snark aside, it's "elite" right?

lol....no

[Anonymous]

And look at me with my 2 ivy degrees and my rampant typos.

[Anonymous]

Sorry for all of the useless replies to your post OP. I actually went to Oberlin, however is a long time ago (1980s). My favorite parts of the college experience where my actual classes, because the professors were truly amazing in their subject and at their craft of teaching. Even then, though, I felt out of place because I wasn't as Uber PC and righteous as most of the other students. So I have an ambivalent feeling about the place --A+ For professors and B- for the social experience unless you fit right in. It most definitely is not preppy. Try for Kenyon or Miami to get closer to that in Ohio.

[Anonymous]

SUPER liberal. I mean, I consider myself very, very liberal. Pro-social justice, all that.

And the Oberlin students are overwhelmingly way more liberal than me.

I'm an academic and I have colleagues there who have to strictly police what they say to / show students for fear of "triggering" them and the backlash that would ensue. I'm not talking about sexual assault or very weighty, personal topics, either--things like showing slides with birds dead from Avian flu were considered too graphic for those with proclivities towards PETA.