"I wouldn't go here if it were the last place on Earth"

College Search & Selection
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<p>the sad thing about people who are so vehemently anti-religious that they actually become "religious" about it, is that they don't see the irony of it</p>

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<p>“the sad thing about people who are so vehemently anti-religious that they actually become "religious" about it, is that they don't see the irony of it”</p>

<p>Ah…. That takes me back to Philosophy 110…..</p>

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<p>Meh, I had to keep a lot about myself hidden every single day from my highly religious friends. They never did that for my sake. </p>

<p>It gets to be very frustrating. </p>

<p>Especially when you get five-page letters from your two "best friends" (who are at church camp) telling you how worried they are about you because you don't go to church...preaching about how Jesus is always there, blah blah. With a few minor exceptions such as language, I'm on the same "moral level" as them.</p>

<p>All I ask for is a little respect from them for my own beliefs...that just doesn't happen.</p>

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<p>All the ivies except UPenn. Any religious school. Penn State, Drexel, Harcum, MontCo, etc. Most southern schools I wouldnt go to.</p>

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<p>Yale and Juliard</p>

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<p>Texas A&M........</p>

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<ol>
<li>Any school south of 39°N and east of 115°W, west of 60°W.
(Basically anywhere in the South-too damn hot, and uncertain racial attitudes in widely dispersed spots towards people of mixed race. Duke is the school that I hate the most.)</li>
<li>Practically the entire Ivy League (especially Yale, Dartmouth, Princeton)</li>
<li>Zhengzhou University (where else do people raise a major protest about the fact that their diplomas have the name of individual schools inside the University instead of the umbrella name Zhengzhou? Not to mention the school stinks when compared against Xianggang, Fudan, Peking, Tsinghua, and the Jiaotong system.)</li>
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<p>nassau cc...its a good school but no i would have to commute so no!
a college in the middle of nowhere w/ no social life aka boresville..
any college w/in a 100 miles from mi casa
any college where the winters r brutal</p>

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<p>Bob Jones, BYU, pensacola christian college or any school with a strong religious affilation.</p>

<p>FIU it should be renamed florida cuban college.</p>

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<p>Any college not in Colorado, Vermont, Massachusetts, or possibly upstate New York.</p>

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<p>Maybe a week, just to see what it's like. I've always been somewhat intrigued by Bob Jones. I can't see why anyone would really want to go there. There are a lot of great religious schools out there that are both academically superior and not nearly as oppressive of their student body.</p>

<p>In my opinion, there's nothing wrong with an institution of higher education being religious, I just find Bob Jones inparticular to be an especially oppressive, almost Orwellian place. Students aren't allowed to listen to even Christian rock, the school banned interracial dating for decade after the Civil Rights Movement, and practically any contact between males and females is against school rules. I think there's a lot wrong with that. Obviously there are people who disagree with me though, otherwise Bob Jones University couldn't exist in its present form, but that doesn't justify a lot of what they do in my eyes. It's one thing for a school to be religious; it's an entirely different situation when a school exerts an almost Soviet-style brand of oppression on its own students.</p>

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<p>Hm... I don't think there's any college I would not ABSOLUTELY be against going to...</p>

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<p>Michigan, 'cause I'm an Ohioan right in the heart of Buckeye Country!! And I think that's the only place that I absolutely would not go to.</p>

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<p>I agree with Cheese, I honestly don't understand why anyone would want to go to Bob Jones. Notre Dame is a great place with an appropriate level of religious fervor, much like the Jesuit universities. The alternatives are just so much better.</p>

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<p>I don't get why everyone on this site is so focused on Bob Jones...it's not like there are no other extremely strict Christian schools out there or something.</p>

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That's like asking why so many people are so focused on the Ivies. It's not that they are significantly better than all other institutions of higher education (Stanford, MIT, and Caltech and others are equal if not better). It's just that people tend to fixate on brands. Bob Jones just happens to be the leading brand of crazy, overbearing, very religious schools. It's the Harvard of fundamentalist schools so to speak, and, love it or hate it, Bob Jones is now the school that comes to mind when people think of extremely stict Christian schools.</p>

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<p>harvard (10 char)</p>

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<p>They dropped a ban on interracial dating in the year 2000. Two thousand. </p>

<p>A policy so completely awful and out of date that it literally BLOWS MY MIND. I can't wrap my head around it. It is beyond my comprehension.</p>

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<p>I think we all get the Bob Jones thing. Can we get back to bashing the Ivies and NYU?</p>

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<p>Rutgers... It's closer than community college and 3/4 of college bound seniors from my school go there.</p>