<p>About Tulane, I was told that I was initially accepted and then it was a “dean’s level decision” to change it.</p>
<p>About politics, he was trying to help me, as I self-identify as being of the far right.</p>
<p>@ jkeil</p>
<p>As soon as I looked at Haverford, I knew that it was too liberal (and possibly too small) for me. Duke felt a little more conservative than my high school (socially), which is not saying much. I just don’t want a place where everyone is a far-left, artsy, hippie, vegan, if you know what I mean.</p>
<p>Haverford is a great school. I did once teach there, and I don’t think everyone was as you describe them. It is possible for students to get caught up in group think at some schools that pride themselves on recruiting students who “fit” a school identity or brand. I think that’s what you’re suggesting, no? There are some truths that are just “given” at particular schools, and some of those truths need to be subject to critical inquiry on a regular basis.</p>
<p>Are you Montgomery or Chester County?</p>
<p>Have you considered Emory for business? Or Washington and Lee?</p>
<p>@ jkeil</p>
<p>I am sure it is a great school. It just did not seem like a good fit. Why would it matter what county I live in?</p>
<p>@ aigiqinf
I toured both, but did not like them for different reasons.</p>
<p>Tulane should have been a safety for you. With your stats, you should be able to do much better.</p>
<p>OP - You should also narrow down what makes you a conservative. Some of the schools on your list are conservative politically and also “party” If pot and underage drinking bother you, some of those small schools may not feel like the correct fit once you land on campus.</p>
<p>@ Longhaul</p>
<p>I am not a partier myself (I have never had a sip of alcohol or tried drugs), but I accept that they are going to happen. With that said, I don’t want to see it (so I can pretend that it doesn’t exist). So, I am fine if there is a party culture, as long as there is something else to do as well. Also, I am not at all a nerd. I just like to watch sports (especially college basketball and football, in addition to the Phillies and Eagles) in my free time.</p>
<p>Some colleges which have politically more conservative environments can be pretty “wet”.</p>
<p>College characteristics associated with more drinking include fraternities and sororities, sports, smaller size, and non-urban location. Those associated with less drinking include being a woman’s college or historically black university. Demographics may also be related; female, black, and Asian students tend to drink less, while male and white students tend to drink more.</p>
<p>I’m not doubting you, ucbalumnus, but I’d like to read more about this. are there some sources you’re citing?</p>
<p>Here is where I am now:</p>
<p>I am not applying RDII to Richmond or applying to Rhodes.
I am applying to Kentucky, but I am only interested in the one program.
I am not very comfortable with Bucknell’s location.
I will possibly apply to F&M if nothing better comes up.
My college counselor suggested Indiana. Do they offer NMF money (only reason I would apply to a state school)
Do you have any other suggestions that are not state schools or LACs (particularly ones with reasonable supplements)?</p>
<p>SF, a couple clarifications needed: is Lancaster (F&M) actually preferable to Lewisburg (Bucknell)? I’d take Bucknell, if not Lewisburg, any day over F&M’s provincialism. Besides, 3 out of 3 of my son’s friends say the Bucknell co-eds are the prettiest they’ve ever seen, and I thought the athletic facilities and teams were pretty good.</p>
<p>Second, on your final statement, your question, are you asking us to suggest LACs with reasonable supplements?</p>
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<p>Summaries:
[College</a> Characteristics of Drinking](<a href=“http://www.collegedrinkingprevention.gov/niaaacollegematerials/taskforce/Factors_02.aspx]College”>http://www.collegedrinkingprevention.gov/niaaacollegematerials/taskforce/Factors_02.aspx)
[College</a> students: alcohol consumption at College Drinking](<a href=“http://www.collegedrinkingprevention.gov/niaaacollegematerials/taskforce/Factors_03.aspx]College”>http://www.collegedrinkingprevention.gov/niaaacollegematerials/taskforce/Factors_03.aspx)
[A</a> Call to Action: Changing the Culture of Drinking at U.S. Colleges](<a href=“http://www.collegedrinkingprevention.gov/niaaacollegematerials/taskforce/TaskForce_TOC.aspx]A”>http://www.collegedrinkingprevention.gov/niaaacollegematerials/taskforce/TaskForce_TOC.aspx)</p>
<p>Details:
[High-Risk</a> Drinking in College: Understanding College Drinking From a Multidimensional Perspective](<a href=“http://www.collegedrinkingprevention.gov/niaaacollegematerials/panel01/highrisk_05.aspx]High-Risk”>http://www.collegedrinkingprevention.gov/niaaacollegematerials/panel01/highrisk_05.aspx)</p>
<p>However, individual colleges may be significantly different in alcohol use compared to what their characteristics indicate. E.g. Bucknell has some characteristics associated with high drinking (>50% in fraternities and sororities, small school in a rural area in the northeast, a residential coed non-HB four year school with 84% white students), but that should only be seen as a preliminary warning to do more investigation about the drinking tendencies there, rather than the definitive statement that it is a very “wet” place.</p>
<p>@jkeil911</p>
<p>Sorry, I worded the question confusingly, but I was asking for suggestions on medium-sized colleges (what seems to be the ideal for me, though I have yet to tour any of my state flagships). I just worry that if I am somehow rejected by all my top choices and do not like a large state school when I tour one (or Miami). What would I do then? Yes, I will probably get into Richmond and/or Tulane, but I think I want one more school in the 3000-12000 range to lower the chances of that a little bit. It does not even have to be a safety. I would have applied to Rice, but I did not think of it until after their deadline.</p>
<p>well put, and thank you for these.</p>
<p>OP, I cannot remember which schools you’ve already looked at and decided not to apply to, so forgive me if I cover some rejects. I think all of these are Jan 15 or maybe one or two Feb 1; all of them have winters no worse than philly, except the first of them:
Davidson: said to be mc
Notre Dame: fairly conservative, good D1, but colder than Neanderthals like
Furman: D1
Lafayette C: D1, choice of Lehigh Valley Iron Pigs, Reading Phillies, and Philly Phillies games
Lehigh: see Lafayette
VCU: D1,
James Madison: D1
Auburn: D1 in spades
UDenver: Denver winter is no worse than Philly</p>
<p>The best I can do tonight.</p>
<p>My family wants me to apply to the University of Kentucky (and it does offer a full ride to NMF), but I do not really want to. Let me explain why.</p>
<p>They have a competitive program that fits almost exactly with what I want to do and accepts 40 students a year. However, I am worried that I will be accepted to the program, which will make my family pressure me to go there. I ultimately know I could never go to UK, as I could not bring myself to root for their basketball team or lose what would be a significant part of my experience. I know it sounds ridiculous to not apply for sports reasons, but maybe one of my other NM schools (Bama, SCar, and OU) offer a good program relating to International Business that I could mention to my family to get them to stop pressuring me to apply to Kentucky. And, my other schools (Richmond, Vandy, Penn, Davidson, Tulane, Miami, and F&M/Bucknell) also have great programs in Spanish, Business/Economics, and/or International Business.</p>
<p>What do I do?</p>
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<p>It is not like attending basketball games is mandatory at any college. That seems to be the oddest reason to avoid a school.</p>
<p>Evidently, ucb, you haven’t met my daughter. She and OP are very particular. </p>
<p>What OP means is that OP is hoping that D1 basketball will be a critical part of his college experience and that cannot happen if he has to root for the Wildcats. Let’s assume you, ucb, love college basketball, that you take off a month every year to watch the conference tournaments followed by March madness, that nothing happens for you any of the days of that month because you’re glued to your tv 18 hours a day watching college basketball. And you’ve come to HATE one particular team that regularly wins their conference and goes deep into March Madness, a team that has been to the national championship game 11 times, winning it 8 times, that has probably beaten your favorite team innumerable times. (Couldn’t you come to HATE that team?) </p>
<p>Now if your family came to you and said the school that that team represents has the perfect major for your interests and would cost you nothing, AND you love college basketball more than life itself, could YOU bring yourself to go to school there and RUIN your one shot at college happiness? Wouldn’t you rather put needles in your eyes?!</p>
<p>I rest my case. (If OP is sent to the gulag, er, Lexington, we must encourage the president to send in Seal Team Six.)</p>
<p>Let us instead try to avoid this extreme by suggesting a college with a very good college basketball team, a better international business major, and a nice EFC. I think we’ve made some headway in this effort, and OP will have to deal with his family.</p>
<p>It is an extreme case. The only two colleges that I would refuse to apply to because of sports are Kentucky and UNC. Other than that, big basketball or football would only be a positive.</p>
<p>On another note, my family now wants me to apply to Drexel. My understanding was that it does not have a real campus or sense of a college community. Also, I thought that it was really only good for engineering. If those are false, I would be willing to give it another look. I guess that since there is no supplement, there is no reason not to apply, though. The other one that I have thought a little about is Baylor, but I worry that Waco may be too isolated and that it may be too religious. I recently decided that Rice and/or Wake Forest may be worth applying to before realizing that they had January 1st deadlines. I toured Wake back in March when I was trying to trim my list and now feel that I was too quick to cut it for no real reason.</p>