Anonymous
Post 03/31/2025 10:34     Subject: DCUM’s favorite schools
VT. It's a good school and accessible/does a good job of serving Virginians by not being unnecessarily exclusive, so people aren't mad about not getting in as often as other schools.
Anonymous
Post 03/31/2025 10:14     Subject: Re:DCUM’s favorite schools
Anonymous wrote:Agree on Pitt. People love Pitt (with good reason, IMO)


Yes. Pitt is the "everyone should EA here" school.
Anonymous
Post 03/31/2025 09:47     Subject: DCUM’s favorite schools
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Pitt!!!


Favorite backup safety school.

What's a backup safety?
Anonymous
Post 03/31/2025 08:57     Subject: DCUM’s favorite schools
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Pitt!!!


Favorite backup safety school.


Only kind of. I know a lot of kids who started with the idea of Pitt as a safety, and then visited and loved it.
Then, Pitt offers these high stats kids great merit aid.
Then, the high stats kids choose Pitt over higher ranked schools.

So it might start as a safety for the high stats kids, but I'm seeing plenty of kids CHOOSE Pitt in the end over higher ranked schools.
Anonymous
Post 03/31/2025 07:38     Subject: DCUM’s favorite schools
Pitt
UVM
Va Tech
Anonymous
Post 03/31/2025 07:27     Subject: DCUM’s favorite schools
Anonymous wrote:There is no consensus of course. DCUM has different camps:

1. The status-obsessed that have been strategizing how to get into Ivy + since child was in the womb.
2. The college-is-vocational school group where anything other than the shortest path to a CS or engineering degree is a waste of time and money.
3. The ones looking for “feeders” to Wall Street/consulting and/or top business school, law school, or med school.
4. The ones who think any religious school is a MAGA breeding ground
5. The ones who think elite colleges are Marxist indoctrinators
6. The ones who’ve heard of only about 30 colleges and assume because they haven’t heard of a college it can’t be any good

7.


DP. A few others:

8. The ones for whom OOS is always a waste of money and need that view validated.
9. The LAC boosters for whom LACs are better at absolutely every aspect and inject LACs into every discussion.
10. The UMD crowd who inject UMD into every discussion.
11. The private high school crowd who need a midsize private college in order to not lose status points with the other parents.
Anonymous
Post 03/31/2025 07:24     Subject: DCUM’s favorite schools
Anonymous wrote:Pitt!!!


Favorite backup safety school.
Anonymous
Post 03/31/2025 07:20     Subject: DCUM’s favorite schools
Pitt!!!
Anonymous
Post 03/31/2025 07:13     Subject: DCUM’s favorite schools
Where their kid got in
Anonymous
Post 03/31/2025 07:11     Subject: Re:DCUM’s favorite schools
Anonymous wrote:The SLAC people seem to like Denison. The university people seem to like Yale, which suggests there aren't a lot of STEM parents posting.


Denison gets tons of love from the SLAC crowd. Deservedly so.
Anonymous
Post 03/31/2025 06:57     Subject: DCUM’s favorite schools
There is no consensus of course. DCUM has different camps:

1. The status-obsessed that have been strategizing how to get into Ivy + since child was in the womb.
2. The college-is-vocational school group where anything other than the shortest path to a CS or engineering degree is a waste of time and money.
3. The ones looking for “feeders” to Wall Street/consulting and/or top business school, law school, or med school.
4. The ones who think any religious school is a MAGA breeding ground
5. The ones who think elite colleges are Marxist indoctrinators
6. The ones who’ve heard of only about 30 colleges and assume because they haven’t heard of a college it can’t be any good

7.