Good points, all of these. My children already know how to be a philosophical minority among their peers, but it’s challenging for them. I’d love for them to go somewhere that is very different from what they’ve grown up knowing. While all of these comments about Clemson and Univ of South Carolina are true regarding students from other parts of the country and liberal faculty, the fact is the cultures of those schools are not that much different from what my kids already know and experience. We have friends whose kids go there, so I have good idea about this. But it’s very encouraging to hear all of your experiences and comments and it does provide me with some assurance that all will be well – no matter how it turns out. At this point, economically, it might well be an SC school. We’ll just have to see what happens with applications and scholarships, etc.