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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here again,

For example, like a PP's kid, my son isn't comfortable in places where he would be part the only AA student.  He cares less about campus ratios than about the surrounding community.  That's fine, I'm happy to help him explore the demographics of schools and communities.  However, he has decided that this is a reason to rule out any colleges in states that "begin with I".   Now, if he'd said that to me about a college in rural Idaho, or an all white community in Iowa, I would have agreed.  But the school he was objecting to is in downtown Chicago.  I'm not at all sure that particular school is a good fit, but "corn" and "white people" are not good reasons for rejecting it!

I could have sworn I posted this in Tweens and Teens, and it may have been moved.  This isn't really about where my kid goes to college.  If, after we've looked at local schools and he has a better sense of size and details about what he wants in his major, I still think that the Chicago or Kentucky schools are a fit, I can drag him out there and let him make his own decision after he sees it.  Like I said, his major is rare enough that his list of schools to look at will be short anyway.  My real concern is about not wanting my kid to grow up to be the kind of person who isn't curious about other places, who dismisses states as "flyover country".  I know that some of this is immaturity, and some is that the college search is, to him, quite anxiety provoking and so he's retreating to what makes him feel safe.  But I also see enough posts here, and hear enough comments in real life, to know that there are people who don't move out of their comfort zone even as adults.  [/quote]

I don't know of any campus in the US where he would be the only AA student. Not even Brigham Young is that white. [/quote]

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