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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.

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

You are responding to my post.
I don't think it's a southern thing. After all, outside the south, the largest number of kids come from the NE. There's a country club vibe (whether CT or VA or SC) that permeates everything. Maybe it's a sense of entitlement? (and we are UHNW full pay family, so it wasn't a not fitting in thing).

I can't imagine a classroom full of sleeping students at a lecture at Duke, Northwestern, Brown, Dartmouth, or Stanford.

Its almost like Vanderbilt has gone too far in the opposite direction of the "nerdy" schools. Wish there was better balance.[/quote]

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