Anonymous
Post 12/01/2014 18:09     Subject: Re:Any colleges you wouldn't allow your kid to go to?
Heh, I know two chemistry PhDs who went to Hampshire and a medical doctor who went to Bard. Another person who went to Bard who has a successful career as an editor, and a successful journalist who went to Sarah Lawrence.
Anonymous
Post 12/01/2014 18:03     Subject: Re:Any colleges you wouldn't allow your kid to go to?
Hampshire, Bard, Sarah Lawrence, basically the New York/New England alt schools where most kids major in dance, smoke large quantities of weed, and never get letter-graded on anything.
Anonymous
Post 12/01/2014 16:58     Subject: Any colleges you wouldn't allow your kid to go to?
GWU -- what a ripoff.
Anonymous
Post 12/01/2014 16:49     Subject: Any colleges you wouldn't allow your kid to go to?
Deep South Schools... WVU.
Anonymous
Post 12/01/2014 16:44     Subject: Any colleges you wouldn't allow your kid to go to?
Anonymous wrote:Ole Miss, Alabama, etc.

Wouldn't send my kid to any schools with the history like those. George Wallace, etc...


Segregation was the norm for virtually all schools until a few decades ago.
Anonymous
Post 12/01/2014 16:34     Subject: Any colleges you wouldn't allow your kid to go to?
Yale recommended a rapist for a Rhodes scholarship I would not send a girl there.
Anonymous
Post 10/25/2014 23:13     Subject: Any colleges you wouldn't allow your kid to go to?
Ole Miss, Alabama, etc.

Wouldn't send my kid to any schools with the history like those. George Wallace, etc...
Anonymous
Post 10/25/2014 11:17     Subject: Any colleges you wouldn't allow your kid to go to?
Now, UNC
Anonymous
Post 10/24/2014 22:55     Subject: Any colleges you wouldn't allow your kid to go to?
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Anonymous wrote:Penn State. Once those kids came out to support their football coach during the pedophilia scandal, that was it for me. I will never be able to see the name "Penn State" on a resume and convince myself that that applicant is endowed with common sense.


Get your "facts" straight


fun fact,

Penn State has the highest child rape percentage.
Anonymous
Post 10/24/2014 22:36     Subject: Re:Any colleges you wouldn't allow your kid to go to?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:^^About going where "everyone looks like you": that's the (almost lone but sometimes insurmountable problem with UVA, VaTech and JMU). There are so many kids at these colleges that the HS kids already know, they're calling the first year "13th grade".


They always say this, it's not new. This was said when I graduated HS in the '90s too. All 3 are great schools and you should count yourself lucky if your kid gets in to one of them


+1
The schools are large enough that the kids just don't "run into" people they went to high school with, unless they were dumb enough to room with them. These are great schools and it's no wonder so many kids want to go to them.
Anonymous
Post 10/24/2014 22:27     Subject: Re:Any colleges you wouldn't allow your kid to go to?
Anonymous wrote:^^About going where "everyone looks like you": that's the (almost lone but sometimes insurmountable problem with UVA, VaTech and JMU). There are so many kids at these colleges that the HS kids already know, they're calling the first year "13th grade".


They always say this, it's not new. This was said when I graduated HS in the '90s too. All 3 are great schools and you should count yourself lucky if your kid gets in to one of them
Anonymous
Post 10/24/2014 22:24     Subject: Any colleges you wouldn't allow your kid to go to?
Anonymous wrote:Penn State. Once those kids came out to support their football coach during the pedophilia scandal, that was it for me. I will never be able to see the name "Penn State" on a resume and convince myself that that applicant is endowed with common sense.


Get your "facts" straight
Anonymous
Post 10/24/2014 21:21     Subject: Any colleges you wouldn't allow your kid to go to?
Anything for profit.
Anonymous
Post 10/24/2014 21:08     Subject: Any colleges you wouldn't allow your kid to go to?
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Anonymous wrote:UNC-Chapel Hill

reason? Look at the front page of your paper

The school is a disgraceful

Watch the faithful circle the wagons



That pretty much describes all of the big time sports schools in the south...


And it's not this way in the North?


no where near as egregious. The culture is completely different.

That said, pac12 probably has the best blend of academics and sports


+1


The Big 10 is even better (no USC) plus more elite schools like U Chicago/Northwestern/Hopkins in the academic CIC along with Michigan, Wisconsin, UMD, Penn State etc.


ok - chicago and hopkins are not full members of the b10. I'm a b10 alum and that's just being a homer. hopkins is a b10 affiliate in one sport and chicago is a d3 school.

Stanford, UCLA, Cal, USC - no other d1 (ivy is d1-aa) conference has as many schools in the top 25 usnwr.

I will concede that the bottom of the big 10 is better than the bottom of the pac12.

stanford, cal, and ucla far outshine any triplet from any other conference and USC is a top school.


Ever heard of HYP?


HYP are part of the ivy league - which i specifically discounted earlier in my post as it is not fully d1. it is d1-aa in football.

Pac 12, b10, sec, b12, acc are considered the 'power 5' conferences. this is what i was referring to.
Anonymous
Post 10/24/2014 17:22     Subject: Any colleges you wouldn't allow your kid to go to?
Anonymous wrote:The ACC is an incoherent conference . The schools have nothing in common and do not help each other in any way other than playing games.


What do you mean? N.C. State and Syracuse and Florida St - almost identical