Anonymous
Post 11/04/2025 17:31     Subject: Re:Dickinson vs Franklin Marshall
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Anonymous wrote:DS is attending Dickinson as an athlete. Has a lot of great friends, is doing well academically and athletically--and hates it. Really wants to transfer (sophomore). Says it's insanely liberally--I pointed out we're liberal and he said we're not blue haired liberal furries. Whatever that is supposed to mean. I don't know if he means the student body or the administration. I'm actually in a bit of a quandary about whether to let him try to transfer or try to talk him out of it.


This is interesting to me. I have a conservative friend whose son graduated from Dickinson. He loved it and she raved about it so I didn’t think of it as liberal at all.


I think the pp's a troll. I've spent time on and around the Dickinson campus and I just don't see it. All these schools have pretty normal kids.


Why do people always call troll without really understanding what internet trolling is? I'm the PP. No. Just because it differs from your opinion or experience does not equate trolling.

This forum seems to be overrun with dimwits.
Anonymous
Post 11/04/2025 17:27     Subject: Dickinson vs Franklin Marshall
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Anonymous wrote:Gettysburg


Thanks so much for your totally unhelpful comment. Any other school you'd like to throw in there? Idiot.


Screw you nerd. OP's kid clearly isn't fully sold on either Dickinson or F&M despite visiting both so why not check out a nearby peer school that draws from the same applicant pool?


Because that wasn't the question, obviously. Nobody asked you about Gettysburg. If I wanted to know (OP here) I would have included it in the question.


You're the one asking strangers for help. Don't be such a dill wacker when someone takes the time to give you a well-intentioned response just because it veers slightly outside of your tight parameters.


If you're trying to help people, answer the question they ask you instead of veering off into your weird agenda. Also, wtf is a dill wacker? You're nuts.

The whole point of this forum is asking stranger for help, which unfortunately results in having to deal with the dimwitted masses like you who failed at reading comprehension and can't answer a simple question, and live only to give snarky responses.
Anonymous
Post 11/04/2025 14:33     Subject: Dickinson vs Franklin Marshall
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Gettysburg


Thanks so much for your totally unhelpful comment. Any other school you'd like to throw in there? Idiot.


Screw you nerd. OP's kid clearly isn't fully sold on either Dickinson or F&M despite visiting both so why not check out a nearby peer school that draws from the same applicant pool?


Because that wasn't the question, obviously. Nobody asked you about Gettysburg. If I wanted to know (OP here) I would have included it in the question.


You're the one asking strangers for help. Don't be such a dill wacker when someone takes the time to give you a well-intentioned response just because it veers slightly outside of your tight parameters.
Anonymous
Post 11/04/2025 14:22     Subject: Dickinson vs Franklin Marshall
These schools, SLACs that are not weirdly impossible to get into, are now what Hamilton and Colby were in the early 2000s. I think they are both fine, normal, non-radicalized schools that kids enjoy attending and didn't have to burn out to get into and the kids havent been destroyed by competition in HS.
Anonymous
Post 11/04/2025 14:21     Subject: Dickinson vs Franklin Marshall
I am the poster with a child at Dickinson. Unfortunately can’t compare the social situation across colleges. Can say that Dickinson has been great for my kid
Anonymous
Post 11/04/2025 14:09     Subject: Dickinson vs Franklin Marshall
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Anonymous wrote:I have a kid at F&M but I don’t know Dickinson that well. They are more similar than different. Neither is super political. My kid complains the workload at F&M is a grind but maybe that would be true for him anywhere. He liked F&M better for science, but I can’t remember what that was based on.

Boy or girl, athlete, musician, theater geek, what?


Boy, academic, science-y, interested in going to veterinary school.
My overall impression is the kids seem very nice and kind.


Kind of random, but when we lived in a different area, our veterinarian was a woman who had gone to Dickinson. Can admissions at the schools put your son in contact with alums in the field he’s interested in, maybe?
Anonymous
Post 11/04/2025 14:06     Subject: Re:Dickinson vs Franklin Marshall
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:DS is attending Dickinson as an athlete. Has a lot of great friends, is doing well academically and athletically--and hates it. Really wants to transfer (sophomore). Says it's insanely liberally--I pointed out we're liberal and he said we're not blue haired liberal furries. Whatever that is supposed to mean. I don't know if he means the student body or the administration. I'm actually in a bit of a quandary about whether to let him try to transfer or try to talk him out of it.


This is interesting to me. I have a conservative friend whose son graduated from Dickinson. He loved it and she raved about it so I didn’t think of it as liberal at all.


I think the pp's a troll. I've spent time on and around the Dickinson campus and I just don't see it. All these schools have pretty normal kids.
Anonymous
Post 11/04/2025 14:02     Subject: Dickinson vs Franklin Marshall
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I have a kid at F&M but I don’t know Dickinson that well. They are more similar than different. Neither is super political. My kid complains the workload at F&M is a grind but maybe that would be true for him anywhere. He liked F&M better for science, but I can’t remember what that was based on.

Boy or girl, athlete, musician, theater geek, what?


Boy, academic, science-y, interested in going to veterinary school.
My overall impression is the kids seem very nice and kind.
Anonymous
Post 11/04/2025 13:49     Subject: Re:Dickinson vs Franklin Marshall
Anonymous wrote:DS is attending Dickinson as an athlete. Has a lot of great friends, is doing well academically and athletically--and hates it. Really wants to transfer (sophomore). Says it's insanely liberally--I pointed out we're liberal and he said we're not blue haired liberal furries. Whatever that is supposed to mean. I don't know if he means the student body or the administration. I'm actually in a bit of a quandary about whether to let him try to transfer or try to talk him out of it.


This is interesting to me. I have a conservative friend whose son graduated from Dickinson. He loved it and she raved about it so I didn’t think of it as liberal at all.
Anonymous
Post 11/04/2025 13:15     Subject: Dickinson vs Franklin Marshall
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Anonymous wrote:second vote for gettysburg


Do the social scenes or student bodies at F&M, Dickinson, and Gettysburg differ in any significant way?


Would be good to know this.
Anonymous
Post 11/04/2025 13:15     Subject: Dickinson vs Franklin Marshall
Anonymous wrote:
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Anonymous wrote:Gettysburg


Thanks so much for your totally unhelpful comment. Any other school you'd like to throw in there? Idiot.


Let me elaborate on what the previous poster was possibly getting at. I'll try to make their "totally unhelpful" comment perhaps more helpful.

They may have been saying something to this effect:

Have you considered Gettysburg as well? All 3 of these schools are peer institutions, are located near each other, and are of similar size. Based on the most recent Common Data Sets (24-25), Dickinson had a 42.1% acceptance rate and a first year class of 646 students, Franklin and Marshall had a 28.2% acceptance rate, and a first year class of 477, and Gettysburg had a 38.9% acceptance rate and a first year class of 508 students.

Not sure if that helps. Not sure if I'm also an Idiot.


No, not an idiot. Also not helpful (sorry) as the reason for the two schools mentioned is recruitment for sports. There are other schools in the mix, but not Gettysburg and not in this area. Just wanted info that might be helpful in downselecting between these two.
Anonymous
Post 11/04/2025 13:11     Subject: Dickinson vs Franklin Marshall
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Gettysburg


Thanks so much for your totally unhelpful comment. Any other school you'd like to throw in there? Idiot.


Screw you nerd. OP's kid clearly isn't fully sold on either Dickinson or F&M despite visiting both so why not check out a nearby peer school that draws from the same applicant pool?


Because that wasn't the question, obviously. Nobody asked you about Gettysburg. If I wanted to know (OP here) I would have included it in the question.
Anonymous
Post 11/04/2025 12:33     Subject: Dickinson vs Franklin Marshall
Anonymous wrote:second vote for gettysburg


Do the social scenes or student bodies at F&M, Dickinson, and Gettysburg differ in any significant way?
Anonymous
Post 11/04/2025 12:21     Subject: Dickinson vs Franklin Marshall
second vote for gettysburg
Anonymous
Post 11/04/2025 10:04     Subject: Dickinson vs Franklin Marshall
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Gettysburg


Thanks so much for your totally unhelpful comment. Any other school you'd like to throw in there? Idiot.


Let me elaborate on what the previous poster was possibly getting at. I'll try to make their "totally unhelpful" comment perhaps more helpful.

They may have been saying something to this effect:

Have you considered Gettysburg as well? All 3 of these schools are peer institutions, are located near each other, and are of similar size. Based on the most recent Common Data Sets (24-25), Dickinson had a 42.1% acceptance rate and a first year class of 646 students, Franklin and Marshall had a 28.2% acceptance rate, and a first year class of 477, and Gettysburg had a 38.9% acceptance rate and a first year class of 508 students.

Not sure if that helps. Not sure if I'm also an Idiot.