Anonymous wrote:DP. I went to IU in 1986 and I'm Jewish. I grew up in NW Indiana and yes, there are Jews there. My parents met at IU in 1956 and my uncle graduated from IU med school. IU has a Hillel, holds High Holiday services on campus and has 3 Jewish frats and 2 Jewish sororities. I lived in McNutt my freshman year and half my dorm floor was Jewish. My dad had a scholarship offer to play baseball for a small school in Michigan but my grandparents wouldn't let him go there because there weren't any Jews there. They sent him to IU. My dad was a SAM and kept in touch with all of his fraternity brothers through the years. My mom was an SDT.

More recently, I two friends of mine sent their kids to IU. They are all Jewish and all loved it.

Like others have said the Music and Business Schools are top notch. Bloomington is a great college town. Bottom line, IU is a great school with plenty of Jewish life. There is plenty of diversity of all kinds at IU.

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Anonymous wrote:When I went there the school runs a bit white christian. I am Jewish and many of the kids there never met anyone who was Jewish (many were from small towns in Indiana). This was many years ago though. Because of all the kids coming in from the East coast, I'm sure the Jewish population has grown a bit and hopefully cultural advances have been made since I was last there. I lived in one of the smaller hippy dorms (Collins) and there was a good mix of POC, artists, free spirits, etc. But most of the school is not like that.

It still is this way. My kid went to a very diverse high school and IU is white, white, white. The business school tends to have more diversity than the other colleges.

There is nothing wrong with white, white, white, so long as there are no remnants of those who allowed slavery, racism, or segregation, which you will find very little in Indiana as another PP alluded to, and you will find some traits of those in all Southern towns, such as Charlottesville. Let's not forget where the phrase "sold down the river" came from, it is from Charlottesville where they sold the slaves down the James river to southern plantations, where the life expectancy were less than 5 years because of the hard toil in the southern plantations. Indiana doesn't have that history.

Um, places that are "white, white, white" are often that way as a remnant of racism and segregation. White flight is at least part of the reason you have all white areas in the midwest despite the Great Migration. There is racism in every part of the US, liberal and conservative, urban and rural. But it looks different in different places. My brown friend who grew up in Indiana and now lives on the coasts would never go back. I'm a brown midwesterner (not IN, but nearby), and I would move back...but I have no delusions that it's racism free. In a way, it's easier when racism is more overt, which it absolutely is in the MW.

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Anonymous wrote:When I went there the school runs a bit white christian. I am Jewish and many of the kids there never met anyone who was Jewish (many were from small towns in Indiana). This was many years ago though. Because of all the kids coming in from the East coast, I'm sure the Jewish population has grown a bit and hopefully cultural advances have been made since I was last there. I lived in one of the smaller hippy dorms (Collins) and there was a good mix of POC, artists, free spirits, etc. But most of the school is not like that.

That's so weird because IU is in the top 60 schools by Jewish population. It's number 57 when calculating by percent Jewish (12%) and is number 9 when counting by number (4,000 students).

I have never set foot in Indiana, and we added that school to our list specifically because of the large Jewish population (and we've heard good things about it).

Anonymous wrote:When I went there the school runs a bit white christian. I am Jewish and many of the kids there never met anyone who was Jewish (many were from small towns in Indiana). This was many years ago though. Because of all the kids coming in from the East coast, I'm sure the Jewish population has grown a bit and hopefully cultural advances have been made since I was last there. I lived in one of the smaller hippy dorms (Collins) and there was a good mix of POC, artists, free spirits, etc. But most of the school is not like that.

Anonymous wrote:My very liberal dc loves IU. We had some reservation about it, and being in ‘gods country’ and the home of Our current VP. But not anymore. Ironically, most of dc friends are from the dmv or Chicago. So no real interaction with the right.

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Anonymous wrote:When I went there the school runs a bit white christian. I am Jewish and many of the kids there never met anyone who was Jewish (many were from small towns in Indiana). This was many years ago though. Because of all the kids coming in from the East coast, I'm sure the Jewish population has grown a bit and hopefully cultural advances have been made since I was last there. I lived in one of the smaller hippy dorms (Collins) and there was a good mix of POC, artists, free spirits, etc. But most of the school is not like that.

It still is this way. My kid went to a very diverse high school and IU is white, white, white. The business school tends to have more diversity than the other colleges.

There is nothing wrong with white, white, white, so long as there are no remnants of those who allowed slavery, racism, or segregation, which you will find very little in Indiana as another PP alluded to, and you will find some traits of those in all Southern towns, such as Charlottesville. Let's not forget where the phrase "sold down the river" came from, it is from Charlottesville where they sold the slaves down the James river to southern plantations, where the life expectancy were less than 5 years because of the hard toil in the southern plantations. Indiana doesn't have that history.

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Anonymous wrote:When I went there the school runs a bit white christian. I am Jewish and many of the kids there never met anyone who was Jewish (many were from small towns in Indiana). This was many years ago though. Because of all the kids coming in from the East coast, I'm sure the Jewish population has grown a bit and hopefully cultural advances have been made since I was last there. I lived in one of the smaller hippy dorms (Collins) and there was a good mix of POC, artists, free spirits, etc. But most of the school is not like that.

It still is this way. My kid went to a very diverse high school and IU is white, white, white. The business school tends to have more diversity than the other colleges.

There is nothing wrong with white, white, white, so long as there are no remnants of those who allowed slavery, racism, or segregation, which you will find very little in Indiana as another PP alluded to, and you will find some traits of those in all Southern towns, such as Charlottesville. Let's not forget where the phrase "sold down the river" came from, it is from Charlottesville where they sold the slaves down the James river to southern plantations, where the life expectancy were less than 5 years because of the hard toil in the southern plantations. Indiana doesn't have that history.

Indiana has a very looooong history with racism and the KKK. The county next to Monroe county has an open and active KKK. There are white supremacists at the farmer's market in Bloomington and if a protestor against the white supremacists dared to show a sign, the were arrested.

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Anonymous wrote:My husband got his master’s and doctorate in piano performance from IU. It’s an excellent school for music. He’s now a piano professor at a DC university.

How much do you make as a piano professor?

Ten years ago, DS was accepted into IU prestigious Jacobs school of music. He studied classical music but dropped out after three years because he realized it will be hard to make a living as a classical musician, only a very few did. He left IU for Atlanta to produce trashy rap and hip hop music, and is now very wealthy. Enough money to take good care of his parents. IU has an excellent school of music but you need to be aware of what you're going to get yourself into.

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Anonymous wrote:My husband got his master’s and doctorate in piano performance from IU. It’s an excellent school for music. He’s now a piano professor at a DC university.

How much do you make as a piano professor?

Ten years ago, DS was accepted into IU prestigious Jacobs school of music. He studied classical music but dropped out after three years because he realized it will be hard to make a living as a classical musician, only a very few did. He left IU for Atlanta to produce trashy rap and hip hop music, and is now very wealthy. Enough money to take good care of his parents. IU has an excellent school of music but you need to be aware of what you're going to get yourself into.

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Anonymous wrote:When I went there the school runs a bit white christian. I am Jewish and many of the kids there never met anyone who was Jewish (many were from small towns in Indiana). This was many years ago though. Because of all the kids coming in from the East coast, I'm sure the Jewish population has grown a bit and hopefully cultural advances have been made since I was last there. I lived in one of the smaller hippy dorms (Collins) and there was a good mix of POC, artists, free spirits, etc. But most of the school is not like that.

It still is this way. My kid went to a very diverse high school and IU is white, white, white. The business school tends to have more diversity than the other colleges.

There is nothing wrong with white, white, white, so long as there are no remnants of those who allowed slavery, racism, or segregation, which you will find very little in Indiana as another PP alluded to, and you will find some traits of those in all Southern towns, such as Charlottesville. Let's not forget where the phrase "sold down the river" came from, it is from Charlottesville where they sold the slaves down the James river to southern plantations, where the life expectancy were less than 5 years because of the hard toil in the southern plantations. Indiana doesn't have that history.

Anonymous wrote:My husband got his master’s and doctorate in piano performance from IU. It’s an excellent school for music. He’s now a piano professor at a DC university.