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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]A lot of insecure Vanderbilt boosters on this thread: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12535579/Vanderbilt-Universitys-chancellor-whines-email-students-58-000-year-college-drops-News-rankings-private-students-mock-schools-rich-privilege.html[/quote]

Vanderbilt is weird. My kid was really considering it. Agree that it's a fun social "gameday" darty vibe. Lots of parties. And that is definitely appealing in today's T20 college landscape.
But zero - no - depth. There is no intellectual curiosity. No, "wow, that's fascinating, let me Google this or talk to the lecturer", with professors, lectures, with anything.
Kid sat in on a class. Most of the class was sleeping. Do your diligence.
My kid turned the spot down.[/quote]

It’s fundamentally a southern issue

A random nescac like Wesleyan or lac like Haverford will have the above in far greater quantity than even duke.

And if duke doesn’t have that, vandy will never have that

The south still has a plantation mentality.

[b]The physical world and material culture is what drives people in that part of the world for centuries. There is no concept of mind[/b] [/quote]

I’m from the South and now live up north. I agree with this to a certain extent as it applies to the “good old boys” and southern belles types. But those types are not the majority of the south so ultimately I think it’s too simplistic and doesn’t account for the racial and socioeconomic diversity in the south. 55% of the US’s African American population is in the south. There is a lot of poverty in the south. There is still systemic racism and segregation academies and a lot of education inequality in the south. So saying on the whole southerners are not intellectually curious or only interested in material items sounds racist and classist and not very nuanced thinking.[/quote]

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