<p>Anything north of Colby, west of Bucknell, south of Duke or east of Oxford.</p>
<p>Be careful when making declarations - my son attends the school my husband swore none of his children would be allowed to go to! Husband has been spotted wearing the t-shirt when doing yard work and drinking out of the coffee mug. The issue was a basketball coach from some years back.</p>
<p>Hmmm- could the initials be BK and the state⊠For decades the tops in his field, thenâŠ</p>
<p>I wouldnât care for them attending a for-profit school, an online college or an extreme right-wing evangelical school. I also wouldnât be particularly happy if they chose the local CC â or any school nearby where they would be tempted to commute. CCs and local colleges work well for many here on College Confidential but the track record for successfully completing a degree among kids at my daughtersâ school who chose to commute to college has been terrible.</p>
<p>wis75, ha ha, no but that is where my other kid goes. Husband doesnât really like either kidâs choice of schools.</p>
<p>Some good points before me, but it isnât that easy to just cast these schools aside because of oneâs experience. You have to do your homework. Drugs and alchohol are on every campus. Crime is in the city and in universities where you would not figure it to be due to easy access off a major highway. This information is available by asking the question, just that simple. But as far as academics, it really does depend on the students major and extracurricular interests, affordability, location, etc. If your student has their head together and understands their purpose at college, to get an education to get a good job in 4 years than they can easily deal with the life issues at college as they would after college. If he/she is still on the immature side, then maybe a community college or junior college is where they begin their journey until they can appreciate the investment achieve their goal. </p>
<p>Each situation is individual.</p>
<p>I named pets after Bobby Knight! Both kids were admitted but went elsewhere.</p>
<p>Wartburg College.</p>
<p>It might be a great school, but I wouldnât be able to tell anyone about it with a straight face. If I worked for the college, I would strongly encourage the administration to change the name.</p>
<p>Wartburg is a vigorously Lutheran college, and Wartburg (Germany) is a revered place among Lutherans, so I rather doubt youâd get very far in your campaign.</p>
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<p>Now I know what Iâll be watching tonight. Thanks.</p>
<p>Northwestern - any college where the science classes are easier than those in my kidâs high school isnât worth $55K a year (or 55 cents, for that matter).</p>
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<p>Shouldnât your kid, as a motivated student, be able to get a quality education anywhere?</p>
<p>Yes, except at Northwestern.</p>
<p>@annasdadâŠHave you ever attended Northwestern? Have your children ever attended Northwestern? If not, how can you make this claim with true credibility and authority?</p>
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<p>NU is one of the best schools in the country. My D almost chose it but decided she couldnât survive the Chicago winters. You may not think itâs worth 50K, but itâs a huge stretch to claim NU isnât a fine institution.</p>
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<p>I just started looking at this thread for the first time and have to say that this is one of the more uninformed comments Iâve seen on CC in quite a while. Does any rational person seriously believe that going to Oberlin or any other specific college has anything to do with someoneâs being trans? Or that this is something that anyone just suddenly âdecidesâ on the spur of the moment? Do you think that if someone comes out as gay in college that means that the college made them gay? Wow. [Shakes head in stunned disbelief.]</p>
<p>PS: I just saw mspearlâs comment. Thank you. I knew about myself long before college as well. Specifically, from at least as far back as the age of 3.</p>
<p>Oh, and to answer the question: I would not have wanted my son to go to any school â or, really, to any part of the country â where open, widespread homophobia was part of the culture, and gay kids were known for having a difficult time. Not that he would have considered such a place.</p>
<p>I wouldnât pay (allow doesnât cut it once theyâre 18) for my kids to go to a school that had the following:</p>
<p>A prevalent drug culture, think 4/20 at Boulder</p>
<p>A bastion of liberal hypocrisy, critical thinking is an important skill to learn in college and itâs impossible to do when the professors penalize conservative points of view </p>
<p>A school that had a culture of nerds, hippies, or red necks</p>
<p>A school that spoon feeds their students Aâs to make their stats look good</p>
<p>The good news is that my kids would never want to go to a school that had any of the flaws above.</p>
<p>Wasnât Northwestern the school where there was some big fuss about a psychology class inviting a professional sex worker and her partner to demonstrate their âtechniquesâ for the undergrads in the class?</p>
<p>Not sure Iâd want to pay tuition to any institution who canât teach a class on human sexuality without live demoâs, no matter how highly ranked.</p>
<p>Annasdad- that is not a very educated comment re Northwestern. Axe to grind or just stewing?</p>
<p>My husbandâs graduate degree from Northwestern has served him very well, and by extension, me! I know several successful people with Northwestern degrees, but perhaps thatâs not what annasdad judges the worth of a degree on.</p>
<p>Funny, I canât imagine a good school without a âculture of nerds.â</p>
<p>Itâs a culture of drunken sports fans that I would find the most irritating.</p>