Anonymous
10/15/2020 19:06
Subject: Colleges with very smart and successful students but relatively few DCUM competitive a**hole types
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:My son got into Yale and felt like it would be too much of a "frat-bro" environment and chose Stanford instead. After spending a weekend at Yale he told me "I feel like I'd accidentally be friends with guys who date rape girls but don't think of themselves as rapists."
DD got into Brown and chose Berkeley instead. Both kids felt like California kids are smart and strive to do well, but without pushing other people out of their way.
Heard Berkeley is very Asian heavy. Not very diverse. That will a problem to dc.
Can you imagine if somebody wrote "I heard that [insert name of college] is very Caucasian heavy. Not very diverse. That will be a problem to dc."?
I don't think a comment like that would go over well. For that matter, I don't think it would make sense. As a group, Caucasians are pretty diverse. Well, guess what? So are Asians.
I do agree that Berkeley is reputed to be the most studious of the colleges in the UC system, and that, as a state university, it can't be as warm and nurturing as most liberal arts colleges. But come on.
People write that all the time. That's the basis of the non-diverse criticism.
Anonymous
10/15/2020 18:56
Subject: Colleges with very smart and successful students but relatively few DCUM competitive a**hole types
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Earlham and Kalamazoo. Smart and successful but with midwestern and do-gooder vibe. Both slightly under the radar in a way that’s probably a blessing.
I would add Manchester, DePauw, Wabash (all men college), and Hanover to the list. Small SLAC colleges provide a lot of one-on-one connections to large and small business. I went
to a small, no name SLAC and I had some great professors, who had just gotten their Ph.Ds from Northwestern, University of Notre Dame, and Purdue University. It leaned more to the humanities, arts, medicine, and social services, so most of the alumni went onto nonprofit, education, and business sectors.
Hanover? Isn’t that where Mike Pence attended college?
Yes. Hanover is a non-religious, middle of the road college. There are more liberals than conservatives, however.
It’s affiliated with the Presbyterian Church.
Anonymous
10/15/2020 18:20
Subject: Colleges with very smart and successful students but relatively few DCUM competitive a**hole types
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Earlham and Kalamazoo. Smart and successful but with midwestern and do-gooder vibe. Both slightly under the radar in a way that’s probably a blessing.
I would add Manchester, DePauw, Wabash (all men college), and Hanover to the list. Small SLAC colleges provide a lot of one-on-one connections to large and small business. I went
to a small, no name SLAC and I had some great professors, who had just gotten their Ph.Ds from Northwestern, University of Notre Dame, and Purdue University. It leaned more to the humanities, arts, medicine, and social services, so most of the alumni went onto nonprofit, education, and business sectors.
Hanover? Isn’t that where Mike Pence attended college?
Yes. Hanover is a non-religious, middle of the road college. There are more liberals than conservatives, however.
Anonymous
10/15/2020 18:07
Subject: Colleges with very smart and successful students but relatively few DCUM competitive a**hole types
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Earlham and Kalamazoo. Smart and successful but with midwestern and do-gooder vibe. Both slightly under the radar in a way that’s probably a blessing.
I would add Manchester, DePauw, Wabash (all men college), and Hanover to the list. Small SLAC colleges provide a lot of one-on-one connections to large and small business. I went
to a small, no name SLAC and I had some great professors, who had just gotten their Ph.Ds from Northwestern, University of Notre Dame, and Purdue University. It leaned more to the humanities, arts, medicine, and social services, so most of the alumni went onto nonprofit, education, and business sectors.
Hanover? Isn’t that where Mike Pence attended college?
Anonymous
10/15/2020 16:55
Subject: Colleges with very smart and successful students but relatively few DCUM competitive a**hole types
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:My son got into Yale and felt like it would be too much of a "frat-bro" environment and chose Stanford instead. After spending a weekend at Yale he told me "I feel like I'd accidentally be friends with guys who date rape girls but don't think of themselves as rapists."
DD got into Brown and chose Berkeley instead. Both kids felt like California kids are smart and strive to do well, but without pushing other people out of their way.
Heard Berkeley is very Asian heavy. Not very diverse. That will a problem to dc.
Can you imagine if somebody wrote "I heard that [insert name of college] is very Caucasian heavy. Not very diverse. That will be a problem to dc."?
I don't think a comment like that would go over well. For that matter, I don't think it would make sense. As a group, Caucasians are pretty diverse. Well, guess what? So are Asians.
I do agree that Berkeley is reputed to be the most studious of the colleges in the UC system, and that, as a state university, it can't be as warm and nurturing as most liberal arts colleges. But come on.
Anonymous
10/15/2020 16:28
Subject: Colleges with very smart and successful students but relatively few DCUM competitive a**hole types
Bennington
Anonymous
10/15/2020 16:27
Subject: Colleges with very smart and successful students but relatively few DCUM competitive a**hole types
Anonymous wrote:My son got into Yale and felt like it would be too much of a "frat-bro" environment and chose Stanford instead. After spending a weekend at Yale he told me "I feel like I'd accidentally be friends with guys who date rape girls but don't think of themselves as rapists."
DD got into Brown and chose Berkeley instead. Both kids felt like California kids are smart and strive to do well, but without pushing other people out of their way.
Heard Berkeley is very Asian heavy. Not very diverse. That will a problem to dc.
Anonymous
10/15/2020 13:56
Subject: Re:Colleges with very smart and successful students but relatively few DCUM competitive a**hole types
SMCM
Anonymous
10/15/2020 10:12
Subject: Colleges with very smart and successful students but relatively few DCUM competitive a**hole types
Anonymous wrote:Earlham and Kalamazoo. Smart and successful but with midwestern and do-gooder vibe. Both slightly under the radar in a way that’s probably a blessing.
I would add Manchester, DePauw, Wabash (all men college), and Hanover to the list. Small SLAC colleges provide a lot of one-on-one connections to large and small business. I went
to a small, no name SLAC and I had some great professors, who had just gotten their Ph.Ds from Northwestern, University of Notre Dame, and Purdue University. It leaned more to the humanities, arts, medicine, and social services, so most of the alumni went onto nonprofit, education, and business sectors.
Anonymous
09/12/2020 17:56
Subject: Colleges with very smart and successful students but relatively few DCUM competitive a**hole types
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:UChicago
Michigan
Michigan??? LOL......Great school, great jobs afterwards, but spoiled spoiled annoying ....... not all obviously but lot's of wanabees.
That's not my Michigan experience. Most were nice.
However, some people would be better off in a smaller college or a college with fewer "weed out" science classes.
+1. More than 50% of the student body comes from in-state. That's a lot of salt-of-the-earth Midwesterners.
Anonymous
09/12/2020 14:40
Subject: Colleges with very smart and successful students but relatively few DCUM competitive a**hole types
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:UChicago
Michigan
Michigan??? LOL......Great school, great jobs afterwards, but spoiled spoiled annoying ....... not all obviously but lot's of wanabees.
That's not my Michigan experience. Most were nice.
However, some people would be better off in a smaller college or a college with fewer "weed out" science classes.