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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]They won't guarantee housing past the first year and Burlington has gotten really seedy and unsafe. They threw a lot of aid at my kid, extended deadlines, etc -no bite. Much easier to get in to than it has been..much less appealing. [/quote]

My kid was accepted to Eastman Conservatory at Rochester.  They received the max talent scholarship,  then the university kept throwing more money at them to bring it below in state tuition.

The conservatory itself was amazing.  But Rochester is a dump whose glory days ended in the early 1960s.  Dirty, boarded up storefronts, open crime during the day a half block from campus.

No thanks.

Give us a safe, clean, [b]beautiful SEC campus[/b] any day over a depressing, dirty, run down crime ridden depleted city in one of those blue areas that everyone is fleeing from.

It's a shame, because the conservatory is amazing.  Just not amazing enough to balance out that it's in one of those formerly nice northeast small cities that no one, not even the liberals who created the mess, want to live in anymore.[/quote]
Of all the SEC schools, I would have only considered Texas and Vanderbilt for DC,  as both Austin and Nashville are real cities outside of the college stratosphere. I guess Tennessee at Knoxville also applies, but I also hate the Deep South. If you're not big on sports, drinking, or frat/sororities, there's very little interest on or around the SEC campuses. I say this as a UF (SEC) and FSU (ACC) graduate who visited campuses of Kentucky, LSU, Auburn, and Bama, albeit many, many years ago. [/quote]

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