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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My DH and 3 of his sibs went to Oberlin.  Our DS, a student at another university, has 2 good friends who are current students.  The Oberlin alums and students I've met are remarkably bright, engaged, thoughtful, open-minded people.  They are, for the most part, refreshingly unassuming and modest.  A lot of these folks, including my DH and his sibs, went on to great success in graduate and/or professional school and in their careers.  They skew liberal politically, but not uniformly.  It's a small school in a small town, so it's not going to be everyone's cup of tea, but you can get a fantastic education there (Oberlin is particularly strong in the sciences, art history, government, economics and, of course, musi) and make friends for life.        [/quote]
Agree with above. My DS, not musically inclined, was a recruited athlete, went there. He thoroughly enjoyed his experience. Very liberal, probably a little more than most college campuses. DS really enjoyed his talented classmates, some of whom are now accomplished and well known in the arts.[b] Most of the kids go to graduate school,[/b] my son went to law school and is now in a established public interest firm. As a parent of four kids who all went to different colleges, Oberlin was the least known and one of my favorites. [/quote]

To me this means that most can't get a job out of college.  When I graduated I had a bunch of friends at other schools who went to law school because they didn't have anything else they wanted to do and their parents were footing the bill.  I don't know if I would send a kid to oberlin with the goal of them becoming gainfully employed after four years.  [/quote]

Yes, it must be awful living off a lawyers salary for life... :roll: [/quote]

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