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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I sat through a Bates, Davidson, Occidental, Oberlin session w/ DD a couple of weeks ago.   Bates was Very generic.  Davidson was very, very into the fact that they have all D1 sports (very not my kid), and Occidental thinks it’s a good idea to call themselves Oxy (WTAF?!? Has no one clued them in?).

Oberlin said they were looking to recruit blue haired kids.  Not kids who actually have blue hair, the Ad Rep clarified,  but the sort of smart, artsy, different from the crowd, think outside the box kids who might have blue (purple, pink, hair). . A couple of older DS’s friends are there, love it, and that’s a fair assessment. Super smart, not preppy, not jocks. Outside the box kids.  Very kind. [/quote]
DS just graduated from Grinnell and, like its competitor colleges, it is definitely big on the red plaid, white skin, blue hair kid who thinks they are edgy and artsy.[/quote]

Yes I'm all for people dying their hair any color they want. But I notice when I drive by our local art college that pretty much EVERYBODY had blue/pink/purple hair.  It's hardly a marker of somebody breaking from the norm among creative types. I'm surprised that a school like Oberlin landed on that as their pitch.
And I"m LOLing and the red/white/blue Grinnell thing[/quote]

I have an Obie.  Im pretty sure they were using blue hair as a proxy for smart, quirky, artsy (they have the Conservatory), outside the box thinking.  When you go on campus, most kids are very friendly and kind.  Lots of kids playing instruments outside when it’s pretty.  Most kids are washed.  Most don’t have dyed hair. There are quire a few girls in prairie dresses and boots though.  Boys in jeans and T-shirts for bands, politics, math and science jokes, etc.  And my kid, like a lot of boys, went clean cut, but desperately needs to see the barber over the break.  I know there is a gender non-conforming population, but those kids don’t stand out.  It looks a lot like many other college campuses we visited.

They have a significant number of kids whose parents are professors at other SLACs, which is interesting. And my DMV kid is close friends with a kid from Falls Church and a kid from Bethesda, which I found interesting.

Oberlin kids say everyone fits in, except the kids who were steotypically popular/ Heathers/ mean girls/ preppy/ jocks in high school. There is some disdain for very mainstream.[/quote]

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