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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My DH and 3 of his sibs went to Oberlin.  Our DS, a student at another university, has 2 good friends who are current students.  The Oberlin alums and students I've met are remarkably bright, engaged, thoughtful, open-minded people.  They are, for the most part, refreshingly unassuming and modest.  A lot of these folks, including my DH and his sibs, went on to great success in graduate and/or professional school and in their careers.  They skew liberal politically, but not uniformly.  It's a small school in a small town, so it's not going to be everyone's cup of tea, but you can get a fantastic education there (Oberlin is particularly strong in the sciences, art history, government, economics and, of course, musi) and make friends for life.        [/quote]
Agree with above. My DS, not musically inclined, was a recruited athlete, went there. He thoroughly enjoyed his experience. Very liberal, probably a little more than most college campuses. DS really enjoyed his talented classmates, some of whom are now accomplished and well known in the arts.[b] Most of the kids go to graduate school,[/b] my son went to law school and is now in a established public interest firm. As a parent of four kids who all went to different colleges, Oberlin was the least known and one of my favorites. [/quote]

To me this means that most can't get a job out of college.  When I graduated I had a bunch of friends at other schools who went to law school because they didn't have anything else they wanted to do and their parents were footing the bill.  I don't know if I would send a kid to oberlin with the goal of them becoming gainfully employed after four years.  [/quote]
You sound uninformed. Most of the quality colleges have graduates like this. O[/quote]
Of my other three kids, one went to UVA and the other two went to Ivys. All of the kids at these other schools did the same, go to graduate school and then get productive jobs. In case you are unaware, the last recession made it difficult for college graduates to get jobs right out of college. [/quote]

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