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Anonymous wrote:University of Delaware

Not too big; not too small
Not too rural; not too urban
Not southern; not northern
Not too competitive; not too easy
Good merit; respectable departments
Beautiful campus

It has a great college town...but the admitted students tour was enough for my DD to cross it off the list. The tour guides basically said this is a place where an average HS student can excel. Of course, Newark is a great college town...but for us, it was a Meh experience.

The students who “excel” at Delaware typically don’t excel anywhere else later. But a few years where all the 5s think they are 8s and 9s may not be the worst thing in the world.

Anonymous wrote:I think the small prestigious tech schools get a lot of love here. Olin, Rose, WPI, Mines, RPI, etc...

Gotta be really smart but modest. No one is going there to party, and being rich and stupid will not gain you admission. And if it did, you would fail out first semester.

Yeah, what’s not to love about small tech schools with 1500 social misfits and a hockey team in depressed towns like Troy? Barf.

Anonymous wrote:University of Delaware

Not too big; not too small
Not too rural; not too urban
Not southern; not northern
Not too competitive; not too easy
Good merit; respectable departments
Beautiful campus

It has a great college town...but the admitted students tour was enough for my DD to cross it off the list. The tour guides basically said this is a place where an average HS student can excel. Of course, Newark is a great college town...but for us, it was a Meh experience.

You can say the same for relatively unknown LACs (in the East) like Macalester and Lawrence. Even St. Olaf gets great reviews except for some light-hearted Snickers from Carleton alums.

I think the small prestigious tech schools get a lot of love here. Olin, Rose, WPI, Mines, RPI, etc...

Gotta be really smart but modest. No one is going there to party, and being rich and stupid will not gain you admission. And if it did, you would fail out first semester.

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Anonymous wrote:I speculated starting this thread just last night on thread pertaining to NESCAC schools! Damn. Rarely see negative about:
Williams
Amherst
UNC
Wisconsin
Illinois

Every other school gets trashed

UNC gets lots of negative comments. Too parochial, too southern, cheating athletic department, etc.

Stanford seems to be well respected.
U of Washington isn't discussed much but doesn't seem to generate negative reactions.

UNC used to get a ton of negative comments that all seemed to be from the same poster; all that said "UNCcheat" about an athletic department scandal that happened very long ago (and in which many other big athletic schools like UVA, Kentucky, Kansas, Duke were also implied). People still love it. It still gets a ton of positive comments here.

People seem to also love: UT- Austin, Berkley, Pomona, Wisconsin, Elon, Pitt, Ga Tech, Vanderbilt, and CNU.

Everyone hates Duke, sorry.

BUT Duke still gets

Tall poppy syndrome. If Duke gets criticism, it is because it towers over the other schools in the region.

Euuueeww. So glad my kid didn’t apply to Duke. Too snobby

I wrote that and I didn't go to Duke.

Why should any school emerge unscathed when fantastic schools are regularly skewered here due to the petty rivalries and deep insecurities of DCUM posters? At most it would be a coincidence that, say, the resident Delaware hater (“as boring as College Park, except even further from anything of interest”) hadn’t checked in lately.

The only shot you have of eliciting positive feedback about a particular school is to solicit only positive feedback on a particular school (“I’d like to hear what people love about Kenyon”) and then report every negative post to Jeff until the people who feel obligated to ignore the request and post negative comments get the message.

OP here.

Silly me. I was inspired by a comment in another thread that it would be interesting to see what colleges are loved on here, and don't get slammed by someone. Thought there would be a nice list of happy, loved places. Wisconsin seemed like such a nice start.

Now 11 pages later, knives are out. And no one gets through unscathed.

Happy quarantine, all!

University of Delaware

Not too big; not too small
Not too rural; not too urban
Not southern; not northern
Not too competitive; not too easy
Good merit; respectable departments
Beautiful campus

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I speculated starting this thread just last night on thread pertaining to NESCAC schools! Damn. Rarely see negative about:
Williams
Amherst
UNC
Wisconsin
Illinois

Every other school gets trashed

UNC gets lots of negative comments. Too parochial, too southern, cheating athletic department, etc.

Stanford seems to be well respected.
U of Washington isn't discussed much but doesn't seem to generate negative reactions.

UNC used to get a ton of negative comments that all seemed to be from the same poster; all that said "UNCcheat" about an athletic department scandal that happened very long ago (and in which many other big athletic schools like UVA, Kentucky, Kansas, Duke were also implied). People still love it. It still gets a ton of positive comments here.

People seem to also love: UT- Austin, Berkley, Pomona, Wisconsin, Elon, Pitt, Ga Tech, Vanderbilt, and CNU.

Everyone hates Duke, sorry.

BUT Duke still gets

Tall poppy syndrome. If Duke gets criticism, it is because it towers over the other schools in the region.

Euuueeww. So glad my kid didn’t apply to Duke. Too snobby

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I speculated starting this thread just last night on thread pertaining to NESCAC schools! Damn. Rarely see negative about:
Williams
Amherst
UNC
Wisconsin
Illinois

Every other school gets trashed

UNC gets lots of negative comments. Too parochial, too southern, cheating athletic department, etc.

Stanford seems to be well respected.
U of Washington isn't discussed much but doesn't seem to generate negative reactions.

UNC used to get a ton of negative comments that all seemed to be from the same poster; all that said "UNCcheat" about an athletic department scandal that happened very long ago (and in which many other big athletic schools like UVA, Kentucky, Kansas, Duke were also implied). People still love it. It still gets a ton of positive comments here.

People seem to also love: UT- Austin, Berkley, Pomona, Wisconsin, Elon, Pitt, Ga Tech, Vanderbilt, and CNU.

Everyone hates Duke, sorry.

BUT Duke still gets

Tall poppy syndrome. If Duke gets criticism, it is because it towers over the other schools in the region.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I speculated starting this thread just last night on thread pertaining to NESCAC schools! Damn. Rarely see negative about:
Williams
Amherst
UNC
Wisconsin
Illinois

Every other school gets trashed

UNC gets lots of negative comments. Too parochial, too southern, cheating athletic department, etc.

Stanford seems to be well respected.
U of Washington isn't discussed much but doesn't seem to generate negative reactions.

UNC used to get a ton of negative comments that all seemed to be from the same poster; all that said "UNCcheat" about an athletic department scandal that happened very long ago (and in which many other big athletic schools like UVA, Kentucky, Kansas, Duke were also implied). People still love it. It still gets a ton of positive comments here.

People seem to also love: UT- Austin, Berkley, Pomona, Wisconsin, Elon, Pitt, Ga Tech, Vanderbilt, and CNU.

Everyone hates Duke, sorry.

BUT Duke still gets

This is an anonymous forum. Any of the negative comments about a school could be coming from one person with a grudge.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I speculated starting this thread just last night on thread pertaining to NESCAC schools! Damn. Rarely see negative about:
Williams
Amherst
UNC
Wisconsin
Illinois

Every other school gets trashed

UNC gets lots of negative comments. Too parochial, too southern, cheating athletic department, etc.

Stanford seems to be well respected.
U of Washington isn't discussed much but doesn't seem to generate negative reactions.

UNC used to get a ton of negative comments that all seemed to be from the same poster; all that said "UNCcheat" about an athletic department scandal that happened very long ago (and in which many other big athletic schools like UVA, Kentucky, Kansas, Duke were also implied). People still love it. It still gets a ton of positive comments here.

People seem to also love: UT- Austin, Berkley, Pomona, Wisconsin, Elon, Pitt, Ga Tech, Vanderbilt, and CNU.

Everyone hates Duke, sorry.

BUT Duke still gets

Did the turtle rape people?

OMG

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Anonymous wrote:It's only MD people who hate UVA because they are bitter they have to spend $50k to go to a decent state school.

College Park has all the charm of a strip mall in Laurel

While this is true, UVA is in the land of Confederates.

Let me guess, you're posting from D.C. or Maryland and don't know that both were south of the Mason-Dixon line, right? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mason%E2%80%93Dixon_line

Yet only 1 has confederate statues.

If you are referring to the statue that started the alt-right riot, that was in Charlottesville, not UVA and was a riot by out of state individuals. But by all means continuing spewing hate