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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Public school with a large endowment in a purple state vs. private school with a smaller endowment in a red state - Which is a better choice?[/quote]

Endowment size is not the key issue.  It's more how well the school is run.  Can they adapt quickly or are they more sclerotic/bureaucratic?  Also, how much do they prioritize teaching and student experience.  The ones who prioritize faculty and administrator privileges will adjust to funding cuts by shortchanging students, not by reducing unnecessary administrative positions.  You want the opposite--how do we optimize for students in a changing climate?

Political leanings do matter.  A typical fun college experience like you might have had at a northeastern school like, say, Dartmouth or Middlebury in the 1980 or 1990s is now only available in southern red states.  Blue states enforce speech codes, politicized grading, covid booster requirements, and professors who work from home instead of coming to the lecture hall.  Blue state schools also encourage open discrimination (administrative and personal, cultural) against student athletes, blonde students, cisgendered students, etc.  Purple states a mixed bag.  [/quote]

Blonde Students?????[/quote]

Yes.  Definitely in admissions, where they also discriminate against rural students, 4H members, Christian students, etc.  They are trying to weed out children of Trump supporters, among other things.  But also ON campus at Northern schools, things get uncomfortable for student athletes, blonde students, and cisgendered students, especially males.

These types of kids are made to feel uncomfortable, cannot express themselves freely, and end up self-censoring.  These places are intensely political, the kids are learning how to implement Lenin's friend/enemy distinction.  There's a celebration of victimology and a sorting into small identity and issue groups.  And all these groups need SOMEONE to play the role of "the oppressor class."  By default, blonde kids, athletes, and straight kids end up cast in that role.

To paraphrase Dazed and Confused:
"Hey, welcome to college, are you genderqueer?"
"No?  I don't think so?"
"It'd be a lot cooler if you were.  You might feel more comfortable over there with the idiot baseball players."  [/quote]

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