Which schools are becoming more popular? Any surprises?

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Who are all these parents willing to pay OOS prices?

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Anonymous wrote:My senior won’t touch a NE school because of the wokeness. And he isn’t that conservative.

NP. Same for my DS, now a sophomore at Vanderbilt. He also couldn't be persuaded to throw his hat in the ring for places like Columbia or Yale -- he definitely had the resume to buy an Ivy lotto ticket -- because he wanted no more part of the progressive thought police that he had endured for the last decade in DC.

Why the FOUR eye-rolleys? Is there something wrong with the PP? Should everyone aspire to Colby

They were a response to the poster stating that their DS turned down Ivies that he totally could've gotten into because of "progressive thought police". If he wanted to go to a southern school so he can be racist and homophobic without consequences, he should just say that.

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Tennessee. Like people are crawling over each other to get to that state.

Where have you been the last few years? Please take note (other than NH & Maine, which got a lot of WFH residents from other NE states during Covid, the NE is grim):

Texas and Florida
, and the South in general, are growing population because Boomers are retiring. That has nothing to do with K-12 schools or colleges.

Link? Everything I've ever read indicates that it is young people leading (or at least co-leading) the shift towards these states.

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Anonymous wrote:Ok, PP. Endicott?

Nope

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Anonymous wrote:Who are all these parents willing to pay OOS prices?

I would guess a lot of the students attending oos public schools received scholarships that made them similar in cost to an in state and/or they are still cheaper than some of the privates even without aid

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Elon, East Carolina, UNC-Wilmington

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Anonymous wrote:Who are all these parents willing to pay OOS prices?

Our kids got merit scholarships, which brings the prices down.

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Anonymous wrote:Who are all these parents willing to pay OOS prices?

For one, DC residents who don't have a state school.

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I went to a SLAC in New England thirty years ago and it was grim even then. The education was amazing but the workload was intense, the weather was depressing, and the constant protests etc were sometimes exhausting.

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Anonymous wrote:Who are all these parents willing to pay OOS prices?

One kid got a full tuition merit scholarship.

We are using the GI bill for the other. Which also gives is in state tuition on years we don’t use the GI bill. Ultimately this was cheaper than the two in state schools DC hoped to attend.

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Anonymous wrote:There are a lot of people struggling to recognize how grim the NE schools are now, I guess. And the grimness has very little to do with “wokeness.”

I think expansion to the south and west is good for the country as a whole. Let the competitive kids spread out. It will be better overall.

There have always been competitive kids all over. Not everyone aspires to go to an ivy.

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Anonymous wrote:I think kids want to get out of echo chambers and try to see different perspectives.

You summed it up in one simple sentence. But the people who LOVE the security of the echo chamber (& ironically think of themselves as the open-minded ones) can’t comprehend wanting to hear opposing views. Mostly because the are aware of how flimsy their own views are. That’s why they get in such a panic whenever a conservative is scheduled to speak at their college—they know their childish world view won’t survive analysis.

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Anonymous wrote:My senior won’t touch a NE school because of the wokeness. And he isn’t that conservative.

NP. Same for my DS, now a sophomore at Vanderbilt. He also couldn't be persuaded to throw his hat in the ring for places like Columbia or Yale -- he definitely had the resume to buy an Ivy lotto ticket -- because he wanted no more part of the progressive thought police that he had endured for the last decade in DC.

Why the FOUR eye-rolleys? Is there something wrong with the PP? Should everyone aspire to Colby

They were a response to the poster stating that their DS turned down Ivies that he totally could've gotten into because of "progressive thought police". If he wanted to go to a southern school so he can be racist and homophobic without consequences, he should just say that.

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Tennessee. Like people are crawling over each other to get to that state.

Enjoy Villanova. Or Dennison.

Not sure how Denison got thrown into the mix nor the grouping with Villanova.

Do you have any direct experience with Denison ?

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I do think the overzealousness of college administrators during Covid dampened things. You don’t go to a residential college to learn online or to be forced to stay in your dorm. There’s always the fear if there is another pandemic, how will my college respond? Will it shut down? Many families chose southern schools because Covid policies were more reasonable.