Anonymous
Post 10/08/2024 21:49     Subject: Hidden Gems
Do you have a creative for a kid? Then you MUST take a serious look at Belmont University. The musical talent concentrated in one small school is bananas, particularly the commercial musical talent.

You'll also find the kids who design the merch and design the sets for shows.
Anonymous
Post 10/08/2024 21:47     Subject: Hidden Gems
Macalaster is a pretty easy admit and the twin cities are fun in your 20s. And no longer brutally cold, thanks climate change!
Anonymous
Post 10/08/2024 21:46     Subject: Hidden Gems
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Trinity University. Super well resourced school with merit to give. For kids who are open to going South, tempted by Alabama money, but want a SLAC .. here's your school. Intellectually rigorous, no athletic scholarships at all. Great new buildings, fantastic dorms. Engineering, accounting, Chinese (one of the best in the country) .. they deliver the goods. And San Antonio is a gem.

Couldn't talk my dd into looking and I don't blame here, but it's a great option


ON paper, maybe. The reality is that the student body is really, really native Texan and a shockingly high number of students go home on the weekends. To their homes in Houston and Dallas particularly.

I don't understand it, but that is the culture currently.


Strange.

We happened across it on our way to try to go to the zoo (we aborted mission because it cost an arm and a leg) with my MIL who lives north of SA.

Are they driving home? Those aren’t close. And TX isn’t known for public transport options


I am told that they fly, and tickets are cheap enough on SWA if you plan ahead. El Paso was another city where kids go home on the weekend.

Again, I don't know why. But with a relatively small student body, I am to understand it feels very desolate on campus Fri nite - Sunday nite.
Anonymous
Post 10/08/2024 21:41     Subject: Hidden Gems
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Trinity University. Super well resourced school with merit to give. For kids who are open to going South, tempted by Alabama money, but want a SLAC .. here's your school. Intellectually rigorous, no athletic scholarships at all. Great new buildings, fantastic dorms. Engineering, accounting, Chinese (one of the best in the country) .. they deliver the goods. And San Antonio is a gem.

Couldn't talk my dd into looking and I don't blame here, but it's a great option


ON paper, maybe. The reality is that the student body is really, really native Texan and a shockingly high number of students go home on the weekends. To their homes in Houston and Dallas particularly.

I don't understand it, but that is the culture currently.


Strange.

We happened across it on our way to try to go to the zoo (we aborted mission because it cost an arm and a leg) with my MIL who lives north of SA.

Are they driving home? Those aren’t close. And TX isn’t known for public transport options
Anonymous
Post 10/08/2024 21:36     Subject: Hidden Gems
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Furman


Agree but I think it’s a particular culture that’s not for everyone. If it’s a good fit for your kid, then yes.


Agree completely with PP. It's a great idea for those who fit, and Greenville is ALSO a hidden very much gem.
Anonymous
Post 10/08/2024 21:34     Subject: Hidden Gems
Anonymous wrote:Trinity University. Super well resourced school with merit to give. For kids who are open to going South, tempted by Alabama money, but want a SLAC .. here's your school. Intellectually rigorous, no athletic scholarships at all. Great new buildings, fantastic dorms. Engineering, accounting, Chinese (one of the best in the country) .. they deliver the goods. And San Antonio is a gem.

Couldn't talk my dd into looking and I don't blame here, but it's a great option


ON paper, maybe. The reality is that the student body is really, really native Texan and a shockingly high number of students go home on the weekends. To their homes in Houston and Dallas particularly.

I don't understand it, but that is the culture currently.
Anonymous
Post 10/08/2024 21:34     Subject: Hidden Gems
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Dickinson


My cousin’s child may wind up there in the end-she went overseas and things are unfortunately not going well.

We oddly wound up nearby on our way to a family wedding in Scranton this past weekend. The area surrounding Dickinson is Trumpy AF. We were in a Ford F150 and I really wanted to fly a ginormous Harris flag from the back of it just to confuse people.

Not sure if the campus and actual town is that bad, but the road going straight north into town was definitely red, red, red.


That's just most of PA, but Carlisle is not like that at all. With the college and the law school, there's a large student/professor presence, and it feels like a true college town. It's really quite quaint.


Oh, you mean pennsyltucky? The parts that aren’t Philly or Pittsburgh?

I do wish we’d had a chance to drive past the college itself. I don’t think we were that far away. We were right on the main road (Holly, Rt 34 it looks like)

Last time we drove north, we went into Gettysburg for breakfast. I made my husband drive us past the college. I think we saw one actual building ;p, but dang it, I at least know where it is now.
Anonymous
Post 10/08/2024 21:00     Subject: Hidden Gems
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Dickinson


My cousin’s child may wind up there in the end-she went overseas and things are unfortunately not going well.

We oddly wound up nearby on our way to a family wedding in Scranton this past weekend. The area surrounding Dickinson is Trumpy AF. We were in a Ford F150 and I really wanted to fly a ginormous Harris flag from the back of it just to confuse people.

Not sure if the campus and actual town is that bad, but the road going straight north into town was definitely red, red, red.


That's just most of PA, but Carlisle is not like that at all. With the college and the law school, there's a large student/professor presence, and it feels like a true college town. It's really quite quaint.

Have relations between the town and the college improved substantially? When I was there in the 90s there was a big town and gown problem. Some locals even literally sped up their cars if they saw students crossing the street.
Anonymous
Post 10/08/2024 20:30     Subject: Hidden Gems
Stay home and pound one of the lonely MILFs that are a plenty!
Anonymous
Post 10/08/2024 20:17     Subject: Re:Hidden Gems
Anonymous wrote:Whitman
St. Olaf
Lake Forest
Puget Sound
Furman


+1 And I'd add Lawrence University in Wisconsin to this list.
Anonymous
Post 10/08/2024 20:14     Subject: Hidden Gems
Anonymous wrote:Denison, Grinnell and Vassar


Odd response. These are not hidden gems at all. They're well-known schools with competitive admissions.
Anonymous
Post 10/08/2024 20:12     Subject: Hidden Gems
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Dickinson


My cousin’s child may wind up there in the end-she went overseas and things are unfortunately not going well.

We oddly wound up nearby on our way to a family wedding in Scranton this past weekend. The area surrounding Dickinson is Trumpy AF. We were in a Ford F150 and I really wanted to fly a ginormous Harris flag from the back of it just to confuse people.

Not sure if the campus and actual town is that bad, but the road going straight north into town was definitely red, red, red.


That's just most of PA, but Carlisle is not like that at all. With the college and the law school, there's a large student/professor presence, and it feels like a true college town. It's really quite quaint.
Anonymous
Post 10/08/2024 18:56     Subject: Re:Hidden Gems
My daughter is currently a junior at Trinity University in SA. We LOVE it, and she is thriving. Smart kids, small classes. Professors know you. She is currently part of a research lab. Son is applying this cycle.
Anonymous
Post 10/08/2024 18:49     Subject: Hidden Gems
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Trinity University. Super well resourced school with merit to give. For kids who are open to going South, tempted by Alabama money, but want a SLAC .. here's your school. Intellectually rigorous, no athletic scholarships at all. Great new buildings, fantastic dorms. Engineering, accounting, Chinese (one of the best in the country) .. they deliver the goods. And San Antonio is a gem.

Couldn't talk my dd into looking and I don't blame here, but it's a great option


YES, this is a great one



They were making kids take flags down. Hard pass.


I really liked Puget Sound when we visited with my son. It's a lot of very friendly, very smart kids. The vibe was very chill. Tacoma has a reputation, but the area around campus seemed very nice. And being close to the ocean is definite plus.
Anonymous
Post 10/08/2024 18:42     Subject: Hidden Gems
Vassar? Hidden Gem? It's one of the top ranked schools in the country!