so- what it is about the east coast?

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Wesleyan, which is fairly diverse...

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<p>Would that include political diversity? Hmmmmm</p>

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<p>If half the student body is receiving no need-based aid, and fewer than 10% are receiving Pell Grants, there is likely to be more face-and-skin diversity than anything that goes much deeper than that</p>

<p>and I did mention that to her.
An aquaintance whose son attended Occidental because of the diversity- and who attended the same high school, transferred out to a larger university, because he said the kids at Oxy were nothing like the inner city kids he went to high school with.</p>

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<p>Let's remember that going to college isn't ALL about career training. There's alot of history and tradition in many of the older East coast colleges that is unique. Some incredible architecture, too. People are very attracted to those aspects.</p>

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<p>Many people consider the northeast to have a different lifestyle, and many kids want to try that. D's boyfriend, from Atlanta, attends WashU and was afraid to come to the northeast. Of course, this is silly because we are not sleek, sophisticates as he imagines.</p>

<p>I think there's a bit of that corny Kanter/Ebb thing going on: "If I can make it there, I'd make it anywhere." This, of course, is silly, but there it is.</p>

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<p>Would you say someone with good stats (in the range of Pomona's accepated) who is low income (Questbridge finalist), has grown up without a proper father, is from NYC public school and applied Early decisions, has a good chance at Pomona.</p>

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<p>I'd say so. It has more committed activists than most places. And, apathy isn't really a political movement (which is what passes for "conservatism" at a lot of places.)</p>

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<p>My son has the opposite theory. He will finish up UG here in the east, but so wants to go to grad school out west. His comment.."I just have to get off the east coast".
He even applied to a school that rejected him for UG...</p>

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<p>Well, FWIW, plenty of Californians I know won't consider school east or north of the California border. There is a kind of Californian arrogance regarding weather that many of them can't get past :) Plus, in a state that big and that rich, there's plenty of publics and privates to choose from that are also farther from home than the schools their east coast counterparts end up going to.</p>

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<p>For grad school, the West Coast offers terrific options. LACs, of course, are not in the running. And many (most?) East Coast public unis just cannot compete with the West Coast or Midwest unis in terms of quality.</p>

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<p>well we have better weather- in general I htink
Its been in the upper 40s and sunny in Seattle this week ( shh)
I don't mind the cold as long as it is sunny- so I could have went to school in the midwest theoretically, although the summers would have flattened me.</p>

<p>A huge joke in Seattle is that all the newcomers are *itching about other newcomers-The actual density of Seattle isn't that far off from 40 years ago, but it sure seems different.</p>

<p>*[snark]<em>NEWS FLASH</em>
Man in caf</p>