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Elon's an intriguing story, a real johnny-come-lately to competitive higher education. No clue about how they've made the transition from a sleepy little football wannabe to a very lovely campus that has become a very viable campus for a lot of yankees. Supposedly there's a book out on this, explaining how this president has transformed the place from what was a very rundown, dumpy place to a very attractive campus with loads of hands-on internship type programs. The endowment of the place is miniscule. It's become very popular for good students who can't quite make it into Richmond, WFU, Duke, UNC, USC, Clemson, Richmond, W*M, and some others. But the applicant pool has had the benefit of an upward sloping demographic picture, good weather, and as noted earlier, a nice campus.
Our dd also goes to DU. Got a lovely scholarship. Indeed, like many campuses, it is (or was) very Obama-friendly, but their is also a campus Repub group. It's pretty apolitic in that she gets very little sense that kids sit around discussing politics. It's come from being a very Greek place 20 or 30 years back to a much more academic place with modest Greek presence. All students must live on all 4. Plenty of big name grads here, unlike Elon, which will some day. They've a very aggressive plan to enroll a more heady, targeted group of students. Plenty of book/library time for ours. It was recently listed among LAC ! top 10 schools in Peace Corps, Teach for America schools, FA/student. She owns a pair of Uggs, but beyond that, is anything but a prep. btw, and you probly know this, DU has a number of spectacular acapella mens womens groups. Perhaps most interesting is that it is fast becoming a center for students who love bluegrass, C*W music, thanks to a classical violin prof who also loves bluegrass.
DD was also accepted at Elon and her best pal went there and seems quite happy there. But they are really different places, we concluded. For whatever that's worth. From a visiting parental pov, Granville trumps Elon, but they're both in nice, decent areas, and I suspect from a student pov, they both suck.
When it's all said and done, there's much to be said for "simpler" imo.
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