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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]a lot of these schools have half the kids paying 100k a year and half paying 15k a year. People already feel like suckers .. and then when the food is frozen chicken cutlets or the dorms have mold in the vents, it's natural to complain.[/quote]

The real issue is that many of these schools force students to pay $$ for these moldy crowded dorms that regularly flood and frozen chicken cutlets for the first few years of  the degree.[/quote]
and now they're [b]forcing you to live in their moldy dorms for 4 years to make more $$$[/b]. It was a PITA to get DC's college to let him live off campus, [b]because it's a "residential experience"[/b] and 94% of students live on campus-uh huh, and it's also $92,000 this year and he'd rather share an apartment in this expensive area than stay on campus.[/quote]

Vanderbilt? This sounds exactly like their bullshit rationale -- and price tag. Many of the dorms literally ARE moldy, and flood periodically on the 1st floor. And the forced chicken cutlets are raw in the middle about 28% of the time.

It has taken me almost 3 years to realize that the school scrubs its FB and other fora of negative discussions like this, or uses parent "moderators" to gaslight commenters who protest the objectively horrible residential conditions for many* students.  (Wow! MY rising junior says she's never TASTED such great food options! She says there's ALWAYS something fun going on in the residence halls and wishes she had even MORE TIME to spend in the dorms with all her friends who LOVE the SOCIAL aspect of dorm living!!!!! :D  :D  :D

* Vandy does have 3-4 pretty new "residential colleges" with 14 ft. ceilings that, despite a "lottery," are mostly awarded to Hollywood kids and the prettiest girls.  But you'll still probably get a triple there[/quote]

I have a senior at Vanderbilt. So much BS here I couldn't help but at least acknowledge it.

But do tell us more about the prettiest girls and the Hollywood kids and the 14 ft ceilings for those in the know [/quote]

Are you asking me to name the student names? Can't imagine that is what you actually mean when you encourage me to tell you "more."  Some people get Hank and EBI year after year, somehow

Happy to be more specific about flooding, mold and raw chicken though.  McGill and Tolman flooded last year. The year before it was Gillette, which is infamous for 1st floor flooding.  The HVAC system of Memorial spewed out black mold in 2022-2023. I have a lot of personal photos of that one.  :shock:

There are multiple, signed posts *still present* on the two main FB pages detailing the lack of food (because it ran out in the middle of dinner); the undercooked food (with pictures!); the lines that are so long the students bail in order to make it to class and end up using the entire $21 meal swipe for a single tub of Chobani.  There's even a video of that last situation.

To experience the gaslighting at its best, search for posts by a parent ambassador with the initials R.G.  She'll tell you straight up that your kids need to "learn to be uncomfortable."

For $90k/yr, my kid actually does not need to learn to eat raw chicken, RG, and breathe mold as he sleeps. [/quote]
What is with colleges and refusing to fix dorms that don't flood? Why do they even create dorms that CAN flood?
My alma mater Pomona had a few dorms that would have rooms flood every time it rained, and it baffled me the first year, because what shanty construction does someone have to do to make it so a room floods. Even the new, shiny senior dorms that look like luxury suites (Dialynas and Sontag if you want to look them up) flood! It's beyond me at this point, but it is insane for $90k[/quote]

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