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Anonymous wrote:Bucknell. IYKYK.

I hate to agree with Bucknell Booster, but this and some other Patriot League schools have that vibe. Lehigh, e.g.

Bucknell not good for POC. My half Colombian niece hated it.

Anonymous wrote:Daughter would like a USC kinda school. Good academics with sports, parties, greek life.

She doesn't want south or conservative. in DCUM parlance, we're very woke. She has good academics but USC is a tough admit. a place like Syracuse would be a safety, possibly with merit. She has Michigan and Wisconsin and some UCs on her list. Cornell is possible, but she wants to study business and she won't get into Dyson. She'd get into Tulane, but is put off by male/female lopsided nature. We'll look at Indiana. I tried to talk her into BC but we toured and she's not down for Catholic. (we're also not white and it seemed very white on tour).

Coming from NYC. Full pay

Any ideas?

BU Questrom?
It seems to check many boxes.

You described Wisconsin

Excluding hockey BU is definitely not sporty. BU has no school spirit.

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Anonymous wrote:BU
Ohio State
Michigan State
U Washington
Oregon
UCLA

BU is sporty??

There were 12 BU alum on the men's and women's US hockey teams at the Olympics. Sounds pretty sporty to me if you like hockey.

Anonymous wrote:BU
Ohio State
Michigan State
U Washington
Oregon
UCLA

BU is sporty??

Michigan
Univ of Arizona
Univ of Oregon
Univ of Washington
Colorado Boulder
Penn State
Illinois
Minnesota

Anonymous wrote:Daughter would like a USC kinda school. Good academics with sports, parties, greek life.

She doesn't want south or conservative. in DCUM parlance, we're very woke. She has good academics but USC is a tough admit. a place like Syracuse would be a safety, possibly with merit. She has Michigan and Wisconsin and some UCs on her list. Cornell is possible, but she wants to study business and she won't get into Dyson. She'd get into Tulane, but is put off by male/female lopsided nature. We'll look at Indiana. I tried to talk her into BC but we toured and she's not down for Catholic. (we're also not white and it seemed very white on tour).

Coming from NYC. Full pay

Any ideas?

How about University of Iowa? I don't think there is a much better place for women's sports. Former Athletic Director, Dr. Christine Grant, was a title IX champion. Iowa's tippie College of Business is very good.

UConn or Syracuse honors programs, or Cornell ILR if Dyson isn’t realistic.

Anonymous wrote:You might look into Indiana. Doing some pretty conservative MAGA stuff over there.

That they are. A friend of mine is a humanities professor at Indiana -- and just happened to post this on his social media earlier today:

In my system, we not only have to submit all syllabi for oversight by potential censors, but now also contend with an “intellectual diversity” law that allows right-wing students, community members, and all manner of fascist activists to lodge anonymous complaints against faculty -- already leading to suspensions. These measures, combined with cuts and closures of countless humanities programs across the state, has left the university thus far unrecognizable compared to what it was a decade ago.

Making Indiana great, innit?

Bloomington is a great college town. Personally, I'm not remotely concerned about my children encountering people or even entire communities with views different from theirs or mine, whether in Bloomington or in or Columbus or in Austin or in Tallahassee. All that is fine and good. I've lived in communities where views similar to my own predominate and have been part of tiny minorities, and those experiences each carry different risks and plenty of opportunities.

But censors reviewing syllabi?
Anonymous complaints leading to suspensions?

Many of us remember a time when this sort of repression would be immediately condemned as "un-American" -- and certainly not celebrated by ideologues as some sort of patriotic restoration.

That time, however, has passed.

According to Inside Higher Ed, lawmakers in 32 states introduced a combined 93 bills that censor university faculty and curricula in 2025. Of those, 21 bills were enacted across 15 states: Arkansas, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Mississippi, Missouri, New Hampshire, North Dakota, Ohio, Texas, Utah, West Virginia and Wyoming.

These aren't the only attacks on academic freedom happening in today's America. (And notice that they really have nothing to do with "the south.)

But they are unprecedented in our lifetimes.

And they are worth paying attention to.

If she's into Cornell, choose another school/major, take some prereqs and transfer into Dyson after a year or 18 months. My DC knows lots of others who took this path within the last year.

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Anonymous wrote:Daughter would like a USC kinda school. Good academics with sports, parties, greek life.

She doesn't want south or conservative. in DCUM parlance, we're very woke. She has good academics but USC is a tough admit. a place like Syracuse would be a safety, possibly with merit. She has Michigan and Wisconsin and some UCs on her list. Cornell is possible, but she wants to study business and she won't get into Dyson. She'd get into Tulane, but is put off by male/female lopsided nature. We'll look at Indiana. I tried to talk her into BC but we toured and she's not down for Catholic. (we're also not white and it seemed very white on tour).

Coming from NYC. Full pay

Any ideas?

How about Vandy although a harder admit than either of the USCs. Nashville is more mid-south than true south and more liberal than TN (with Vandy more liberal than Nashville as a whole). Tons of fun. Great academics. Rapidly improving sports. No shortage of party opportunities.

She said “no South.” Agree that Nashville is as blue as they come but NYC types who insist on No South imagine that every single resident is MTG or Marsha Blackburn. Plus, they’ll face barriers to all the many abortions they’re anticipating in college

Interesting that the poster complains about stereotyping the South while crudely stereotyping NYC before doing so

PP. i am accurately reporting how it actually goes on DCUM.

Q: should ‘my daughter’ (aka, me, a teen posing as a parent) consider any school south of Delaware for biomedical engineering? Thinking of,
say, Rice, Emory or Vandy. Which of these offers better internships?

A: No!!!!! You will have No Reproductive Rights anywhere not on the Amtrak Northeast Corridor!!!!!!!! What if you bleed out from a perforated uterus at 2 am ????!!!!! The chance of this happening at age 19 even though you aren’t pregnant is 0.0000008% but STILL!!!!!

you have woke derangement syndrome

No, that’s exactly how these discussions usually go. People claim to be experts on places they have never even been close to.

Anonymous wrote:You might look into Indiana. Doing some pretty conservative MAGA stuff over there.

MAGA isn't conservative. It's both radical and reactionary.