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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]
former “blue hair”/alt kid...trust me, they’re every bit as conformist as Greek bros...just present a little bit different. [/quote]

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