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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here. Thank you all for the replies and insight.

I’m going to try and answer a few of the questions that have come up. We are considering some UC schools, but most of them are very hard to get in now. Some are reaches on her list. Others don’t work location wise. She also really wants a school with over 10k undergrads  and  when you add “mild winter” as a requirement it ends up very limiting.

I wrote off Elon already because it came up on my radar sooner and I looked into it and was able to figure out she wouldn’t like it there. Also due to the size being smaller than she wants. We also ruled out SMU and TCU after she watched boulevarding videos on Tik Tok. I agree she won’t really like the Greek life, particularly in the south.

The list of schools I posted today were very recently suggested by her counselor and she’s now supposed to be researching them. I’m trying to figure out which are worth touring. Also suggested were Alabama and Ole Miss. Appalachian too but the weather doesn’t make sense.

I’m willing to let her explore and maybe she’ll figure this all out herself. I’m just worried this doesn’t make sense, as some of you pointed out. [/quote]

Hi op, I have to agree with you it probably doesn’t make the most sense for her. I went to college of Charleston after growing up in the dc area and while I had an amazing time because it is a fantastic city and I had a best friend who was also from the dc area, I really did not fit in honestly. I couldn’t relate to many of the girls raised in the south, and the guys oh that was honestly much worse. Of course you can’t generalize across everyone but generally a pretty bro-y, head out on my boat to fish kind of crowd. Again that is a generalization and I’m not saying many of them aren’t nice people, I made friends but my life long friends are from high school and I think that’s partially why.

Charleston is an amazing city to go to college in, and there will be a variety of folks anywhere, but it will likely be tougher to find her crowd. Easier at CofC than Clemson or something I can’t really imagine that. And agree it would be odd to come across the country for East Carolina. I have friends that were generally happy at Wilmington and it has the beach too which is nice.

And yes, there is more racism. No doubt about it.

Do a trip but I would try to find some other options! [/quote]

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