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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My son goes there. We are in MD. Most kids from here do Risk and Insurance (business school) or sports and event mgmt (hospitality school). We get in state for those 2 degrees.

We were definitely hit up by Christian groups when we were there (we are catholic and my son went to Catholic private)

His roommate was from SC and his mom said to me she was glad her son wasn’t rooming with the more conservative South Carolina boys.

He hears the n word on the regular.

Frats are based on where you are from. For example. He wanted the same frat as his roommate but he is from Md so they said no chance. He ended up not joining a md frat … he would have just ended up with Gonzaga/prep/st John’s/GC kids he already knows)

You know your kid, it could go either way. For my don it just solidified that “these people really exist”.

OToH, he loves the weather. He golfs with friends a few times a week. Like all schools some teachers are great/some are not.

Lots of football, girl’s basketball is big time, Spring is a little more laid back, lots of opportunities to do a semester abroad.
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I'm an alumna. I went there and my experience was ... interesting.

This is a southern college town, but there are, indeed, some liberal hippy types. Not tons, but they are there.

I found the stress to be not crazy. I went into the sciences and ended up in medical school at UVA. I found the greek life pressure INSANE. I was a tri-delt and yes, it just wasn't ... for me. But I was pressured by my mother (another southern mother who wanted her daughter around the right people). I was pretty, 5'9,blond blue eyes and thin. So, socially the school was great for me. But the marriage pressure was insane. Guys either wanted to just have a one night stand or get married. It was jarring and I actually gave up on dating my junior and senior year.

The racism is toe curling. People are just openly racist and think black people suck, are stupid, ghetto trash unless they were in athletics. And even then, my sorority had a no athletes rule for the girls. People crapped on kids who were in mixed relationships. Black people were mocked...a lot behind closed doors. I would never, ever attend this school if I was black because woo-boy, I look back with a lot of shame even though I didn't explicitly say these things, I didn't really push back on them either. People don't say this enough, but UVA seemed incredibly open minded compared to my time in college.[/quote]

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