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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So, all who are telling us to visit:

We have visited.  We visited last Fall when my DD was a junior.  We did find it urban as others have described, but we were just there for a day and found it fine, on that one visitation day. I was wondering if there was more to the story that we did not pick up on:  that others may already know.  EG is it considered “ghetto?”  In whatever explanation of this word as someone may take it?  Were we the naive dumb-dumbs who did not pick up on something everybody else already knows?

And lastly, the mom who used this word would not really be considered MAGA to me.  She is quirky, kind of artsy and creative, divorced mom of two, cute, fun. Posts anti-Trump things on her FB page.  So, yeah, I couldn’t easily place where this mom was getting “ghetto” from, as the one-word descriptor of the whole school, like I could have easily write it off if it were from an obviously MAGA type mom. It made me wonder if we had missed something that was a well-known, yet unwritten social understanding of the school:  “Oh, VCU, that’s ghetto and artsy. The end.”

Thanks for everyone’s responses.[/quote]
Ghetto is not a term I would use or have heard used about VCU. It makes me question the person who used it. I can only assume it’s because it’s an urban campus with a slightly higher percentage of Black students, but wow. Describing it that way for those reasons would say more about the person than the school.

If this is a friend, maybe ask her exactly what she thinks makes the school “ghetto”? The answer might be enlightening — about her. [/quote]

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