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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yeah the more frequent and open racism, huge Greek culture, conservatism of the State and the school being a bit of a let down for those who didn’t get into Clemson all seem like big turnoffs to me. [/quote]

Why are we continuing to perpetuate stereotypes based on experiences you all had over a decade ago?
I have a student there now.  No indications of any of these things mentioned.  Great school overall.  Even better business school.
Super fun sports and social scene.  Strong academics.

But, I guess that doesn't meet the DCUM narrative.  Sorry it isn't an Ivy.  In many ways, it is better!
GO COCKS![/quote]

Because they are narrow minded hyper-emotional humans that harbor an irrational fear and thus zero tolerance for anything divergent from their ideology.[/quote]

I'm the PP who posted who attended and graduated 10 years ago (which frankly is not too far in the past). I'm also from the south, have friends who live in Columbia and Greenville and have attended football games. I've also as recently as 5 years ago attended alumni events for my sorority (tri-delt).

My view is that it's a good school for some things. I did incredibly well there, got research opportunities in the sciences and had great health care volunteering opportunities. My social life was good, if not a bit unfulfilling because the social truth of the environment I was in was exactly how I described. Yes, there are liberal people, yes, there are black people, but holy hell, the racism was something I still try to unpack sometimes because it was everywhere. It was super ugly.

But what was so crazy was the let's get married or one night stand dichotomy that ruled the dating world down there. [/quote]

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