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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Also, although your child may be selecting out whole portions of the country- perhaps it might be your role as the parent to put at least one of the more liberal "Southern" schools on the list just to "check out" as it were -whether a small liberal arts school - or one of the big State schools (University of Texas comes to mind as a HUGE school with a VERY liberal bent in some quarters - plus, the Honors program is a very good program and gives the small feel without being in what may be a more stifling small campus.) O[b]bviously, the choice is the child's, but if s/he is making a decision based on Southern stereotypes, then she may need to inform herself further before rejecting a geographic location entirely[/b].[/quote]

OP - her decision was based on a visit to Washington & Lee and a good friend's recent visit to Roanoke College.  Both girls deemed these schools too conservative, Greekbased, and dripping in Old South protocol.  That said, I am *trying* to persuade her to look at least another school, before disregarding the south altogether.

FWIW,  I found Lexington, VA to be a lovely and charming town.  If I had seen it at 17 it would have been at the top of my list (tho I am pretty sure that I would not have made their list, as a high school student I was the antithesis of my DD :oops: ) [/quote]

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