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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Re Tulane — I spent a lot of my life in NOLA. Tulane is already a very Greek party school and when you add Marci Gras to that you get a school that can really be too much socially for some kids. But extroverted, very socially comfortable kids can go there and love it. I have found when it comes to New Orleans people either love it or hate it with nothing in between. [/quote]

I have never been to a city that was more DRENCHED in alcohol. And I mean for adults visiting for business, not even college students.

Not my idea of a great place to send a kid living on their own for the first time. ..  while I am paying for them to learn.

But luckily, my kid never had any interest in it/the south. [/quote]

Back before Tulance make a move in the ranks, one of my friends who had serious  T1 diabetes went.  He promptly got plastered and died freshman year.  I will never understand what his parents are thing.  Yes, a kid who wants to drink with drink. But, campus culture matters too. And at the time, Tulane was one of the top 5 college for drinkers in the county. Why send a a T1 diabetic to a school where the whole social scene is alcohol? [/quote]

[b]I was accepted to Tulane in the mid-90s.  I was a partier in high school and my dad became VERY worried about Tulane when he saw my enthusiasm and commitment to attending.  He instituted a full-scale push from family, friends, my boyfriend (who he hated!), teachers, everyone to push me towards another school he deemed “safer.”  Well, I finally caved and went to the other school, which had a similar social scene but wasn’t NOLA.  I swear my dad saved me. I had plenty of fun in college, too much really, and definitely had the capacity to go off the edge.  I was surrounded by good people who helped keep me wraith to and allowed me to mature.  I know deep-down that Tulane/NOLA would’ve ruined me.  So I agree that a parent really can be a huge influence/help in these matters.[/b][/quote]

What a ridiculous post.  Bashing a school that you never even attended on the basis of what might have been?  And your dad had to bring out the cavalry to have you go elsewhere?  Really?  Were you paying your own tuition?  This post is all about you -- not Tulane and not NOLA.  News flash:  hundreds of thousands of people have managed to survive and thrive at both.[/quote]

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