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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't know much about Colby, but my nephew is at Middlebury and he told me the student population is very,very liberal. Not sure it would be the best fit for your right of center son, unless they are open to other political views and comfortable being in a very, very tiny minority.[/quote]
Econ students at these liberal arts colleges tend to have a bunch of conservative men. They're just hush hush in intro to sociocultural anthro, but they stick together for clear reasons.[/quote]

Why would you want to go to Midd if you have to be hush hush about your views? Not worth spending all that money and 4 years. Go to a school with a better fit like Colgate, Duke, etc.[/quote]

OP here - newsflash - most athletes at SLACs lean right.  My DC has a close friend at Wes who reported majority of athletes are mostly MAGA - and frosh year (in 2020) were heavily persecuted for their beliefs. Even the apolitical athletes were assumed to be Trumpers - sure Middlebury is the same - granola lefties raging at the world while the MAGA athletes party and have fun, and land $125k+ jobs..[/quote]

Hijacking the thread here. How does your DC's friend find Wes? My kid is very interested. [/quote]

very very cliquish - if you fit one of the cliques, can be a very fun place.  Athletes, theatre, raging liberals, goth stoners, music (top ethno-music department), alternative lifestyle, frat bros (where athletes cross team lines) outdoors enthusiast/hiking, international.. the list goes on - for a school this size, many many groups - but you better belong to one[/quote]

Food for thought. Thanks.[/quote]
DC goes to Amherst and finds it quite similar. He also likes to talk about "shadow Amherst," people who nobody knows about the existence of. This article from the student paper seems to explain it well: https://amherststudent.com/article/lets-get-back-work/[/quote]

Interesting…and sad. Article is five years old. Assume you/DC think it still holds true? Does your DC like Amherst? Are they an athlete? Amherst seems amazing in so many ways, but my DC is turned off by the high percentage of athletes. She felt that Wes would be a better fit since the percentage of athletes is a bit lower. She’s also artsy (visual and performing) but really wants to go somewhere intellectually engaging above all. She floats between groups (nerds, newspaper, musical, art). Doesn’t want to be defined by any one group. All the top East Coast LACs seem to have this problem. [/quote]

DC loves Amherst. He has a large variety of friends from multiple different sources: classes, clubs, the floor he lived on, and even random encounters around campus, though he does not seem to be close with any varsity athletes. Despite the large percentage of athletes, the culture does not feel athletic at all to him; he has only ever mentioned going to one sports game, which was Amherst/Williams football. He also enjoys performing arts, but has found that the music scene at Amherst is significantly bigger than the theater scene. He has had a wonderful academic experience and has gushed about some of his professors—even very difficult ones—in our conversations, and is currently working a research internship there over the summer.

"Shadow" is a pretty common term in his parlance, which was shocking to us given the school's small size. [/quote]

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