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Anonymous wrote:It's a diverse mix of traditional Southerners, Texans, and groups from NYC, California, Denver, and a lot from Northern Virginia. More diverse than you might think, incl around 10% intl (mostly China but smattering elsewhere). Single sanction honor code and basically same for discipline means booze and drugs are very under the radar.

Extremely loyal alumni - around 70% give annually - so they have funds to invest in almost everything.

Colleges tend Southern (UVA, UNC, Davidson, etc.) but probably 30% attend selective schools in NE or otherwise outside the south.

I'm an alum with pretty mixed feelings about the place. For starters, it is far from rednecky but it is very Good Ol' Boy with extreme affluence. Which means white boys who love SEC football, wearing ball caps and using smokeless tobacco. But their vehicles are Tahoes and Grand Cherokees, not pickup trucks, their hunting is at exclusive game preserves or luxurious duck blinds, not tree stands in the local forest, and their Alabama fandom is demonstrated by watching the national championship game from club level suites, not in a sports bar.

It is unapologetically conservative, as embodied by the one strike and you're out policy on the Honor Code and alcohol/drugs. The resources there are virtually unlimited - it is one of the richest schools in the country on an endowment per student basis, which is north of $500,000 per student and climbing toward one million. My hope for Woodberry is that it will use those resources to become more like Davidson and less like Hamden-Sydney - a bastion of learning in the south, rather than a manifestation of traditional southern culture. But I haven't really seen much movement in that direction.

Also, the idea that one-third of the student body goes to school outside the south is way off base. Here's the 2016 matriculation list: https://bbk12e1-cdn.myschoolcdn.com/ftpimages/51/misc/misc_134834.pdf

And what, exactly, is wrong with the manifestation of Southern culture.

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Anonymous wrote:It's a diverse mix of traditional Southerners, Texans, and groups from NYC, California, Denver, and a lot from Northern Virginia. More diverse than you might think, incl around 10% intl (mostly China but smattering elsewhere). Single sanction honor code and basically same for discipline means booze and drugs are very under the radar.

Extremely loyal alumni - around 70% give annually - so they have funds to invest in almost everything.

Colleges tend Southern (UVA, UNC, Davidson, etc.) but probably 30% attend selective schools in NE or otherwise outside the south.

I'm an alum with pretty mixed feelings about the place. For starters, it is far from rednecky but it is very Good Ol' Boy with extreme affluence. Which means white boys who love SEC football, wearing ball caps and using smokeless tobacco. But their vehicles are Tahoes and Grand Cherokees, not pickup trucks, their hunting is at exclusive game preserves or luxurious duck blinds, not tree stands in the local forest, and their Alabama fandom is demonstrated by watching the national championship game from club level suites, not in a sports bar.

It is unapologetically conservative, as embodied by the one strike and you're out policy on the Honor Code and alcohol/drugs. The resources there are virtually unlimited - it is one of the richest schools in the country on an endowment per student basis, which is north of $500,000 per student and climbing toward one million. My hope for Woodberry is that it will use those resources to become more like Davidson and less like Hamden-Sydney - a bastion of learning in the south, rather than a manifestation of traditional southern culture. But I haven't really seen much movement in that direction.

Also, the idea that one-third of the student body goes to school outside the south is way off base. Here's the 2016 matriculation list: https://bbk12e1-cdn.myschoolcdn.com/ftpimages/51/misc/misc_134834.pdf

Anonymous wrote:It's a diverse mix of traditional Southerners, Texans, and groups from NYC, California, Denver, and a lot from Northern Virginia. More diverse than you might think, incl around 10% intl (mostly China but smattering elsewhere). Single sanction honor code and basically same for discipline means booze and drugs are very under the radar.

Extremely loyal alumni - around 70% give annually - so they have funds to invest in almost everything.

Colleges tend Southern (UVA, UNC, Davidson, etc.) but probably 30% attend selective schools in NE or otherwise outside the south.

Anonymous wrote:What do you mean by rednecky - into guns and intolerant or just saying y'all? How academic is it and how good is their college admittance? Also, how often do they get to come home since they have Saturday classes? I get the sense that the school is not as good as it used be academically.

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Anonymous wrote:Good place if you're looking to ditch your kid for the rest of his childhood, and don't mind risking the chance that he could end up a little bit rednecky.

+1 on rednecky warning.

?? I find this an amazing comment. The 3 guys I know who've gone there recently are from the Chapel Hill area and about as "old family," moneyed, and non-rednecky as you can get.

What’s the culture like at the school? Any drugs? Partying? Truancy? Cheating?

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Anonymous wrote:Good place if you're looking to ditch your kid for the rest of his childhood, and don't mind risking the chance that he could end up a little bit rednecky.

+1 on rednecky warning.

?? I find this an amazing comment. The 3 guys I know who've gone there recently are from the Chapel Hill area and about as "old family," moneyed, and non-rednecky as you can get.

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Anonymous wrote:Good place if you're looking to ditch your kid for the rest of his childhood, and don't mind risking the chance that he could end up a little bit rednecky.

+1 on rednecky warning.

Anonymous wrote:Good place if you're looking to ditch your kid for the rest of his childhood, and don't mind risking the chance that he could end up a little bit rednecky.