Anonymous
Post 09/20/2024 15:17     Subject: Universally beloved schools
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Duke!!!


You mean Dook?


No, they mean JMU DOOOKS.
Anonymous
Post 09/20/2024 15:07     Subject: Universally beloved schools
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Michigan's undergrad population is woefully weak compared to stronger, usually private, seletive colleges. 40% of Michigan's freshmen class score below 1340. That is not a bad number, but definitely not elite.


It's also a made-up number.


And Michigan has been test optional for a few years now. Anyone who cites test scores as a tell in the TO era is just looking to throw stones.
Anonymous
Post 09/20/2024 15:05     Subject: Universally beloved schools
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:LOL. Penn has a reputation as a miserable place that never accepts anyone from our HS. Not loved.

Michigan is in a location with awful winter weather, is far too large and rah-rah and almost cult-like from what my DC and their friends could sense-- none of DC's (high achieving) peers had any interest in applying. Not universally loved.

No school is universally loved!


Took the words right out of my mouth. Same experience with my kid's high-achieving friends.


This is ridiculous. So - spoken from two parents whose kid told them another kid did not like it, so did not apply. No actual experience at either school? Super intelligent commentary. From kids who did not apply though "high achieving" - no doubt from a public school.
Anonymous
Post 09/20/2024 15:05     Subject: Universally beloved schools
Anonymous wrote:the Ds: Davidson, Denison, and Dickinson.

anything too high on the rankings list is going to get people wanting to knock it off.


There are no universally beloved schools, especially here on DCUM.

But these are three that come pretty close. Rarely hear any negatives.
Anonymous
Post 09/20/2024 15:02     Subject: Universally beloved schools
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Penn is not universally loved


What's bad about Penn? Besides Wharton, everyone hates Wharton kids.


Penn has an ugly campus in a crappy city.
Anonymous
Post 09/20/2024 15:01     Subject: Universally beloved schools
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Yale.

Everybody loves Yale and wants to go there.


Not really. It’s very far left and very gay, and New Haven is a dump.


The PQs of the people on this board are .. wow
Anonymous
Post 09/20/2024 14:58     Subject: Universally beloved schools
Anonymous wrote:Michigan's undergrad population is woefully weak compared to stronger, usually private, seletive colleges. 40% of Michigan's freshmen class score below 1340. That is not a bad number, but definitely not elite.


It's also a made-up number.
Anonymous
Post 09/20/2024 14:53     Subject: Universally beloved schools
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Rice. Everyone loves it.


Not me. It's bland and makes me gassy.


Anonymous
Post 09/20/2024 14:53     Subject: Universally beloved schools
The schools my kids attend are universally beloved by students and alumni - but I won’t name them because they’re also schools DCUM’s finest love to disparage.
Anonymous
Post 09/20/2024 14:52     Subject: Universally beloved schools
Anonymous wrote:Yale.

Everybody loves Yale and wants to go there.


Not really. It’s very far left and very gay, and New Haven is a dump.
Anonymous
Post 09/20/2024 14:49     Subject: Universally beloved schools
I don’t believe the Brown thing happened. Have a student there, school prides itself on open dialogue for understanding if all sides and if someone didn’t want to I believe that would definitely be accepted and certainly not punished.
Anonymous
Post 09/20/2024 14:35     Subject: Universally beloved schools
the pronoun thing is such a bee in the bonnet of middle aged white people in the DCUM area. literally nobody else cares. it comes up zero times a year in my life - people state pronouns or not, who cares
Anonymous
Post 09/20/2024 14:21     Subject: Universally beloved schools
Anonymous wrote:Rice. Everyone loves it.


Not me. It's bland and makes me gassy.
Anonymous
Post 09/20/2024 14:20     Subject: Universally beloved schools
Yale.

Everybody loves Yale and wants to go there.
Anonymous
Post 09/20/2024 14:19     Subject: Universally beloved schools
Michigan's undergrad population is woefully weak compared to stronger, usually private, seletive colleges. 40% of Michigan's freshmen class score below 1340. That is not a bad number, but definitely not elite.