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[quote=Anonymous]About 45 per cent of the comments on ‘DCUM colleges’ basically equate college quality with even the smallest and most inconsequential distinctions in the hallowed USNWR rankings.

About another 45 percent lament the high cost of college tuition.

Then you have threads like this where the same DCUM that gushes about (significantly) lower ranked schools like Auburn, South Carolina and Alabama will (almost universally) write off higher ranked and less expensive SUNY universities because of modern architecture, colder weather and no football - ‘it wasn’t for us.’

The answer to OP’s question is, groupthink, and second-rate intellects.

If you wanted to dive a little deeper, I’d guess it’s because many DCUM families see college fundamentally as a status marker more than a place to actually get an education, and the presence of some older buildings on the campuses of less distinguished ‘flagships’ allows DCUM - parents and kids alike - to pretend their chosen school is elite (‘educating segregationist leaders for decades’) and vaguely ‘ivy-adjacent’ which is a lot harder to pull off with the resolutely middle class, mass-education feel of most SUNY campuses.

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