I understand if you’re already enrolled, you have your friends and your routine, making a change unless you’re in grave danger seems unnecessary. I have a cousin in grad school at Columbia and he loves his classes and is staying put despite the fact that he has been harassed by a few kids who know he’s Jewish. Harassed as in, called a baby killer, a Nazi, a colonizer, all of the anti/Jewish tropes from generations past. This isn’t our first rodeo after all. He finds comfort in his friend group, which includes Jewish, Christian and Muslim friends.
As an applicant we are in a position to see these schools from the outside and I just can’t knowingly send my kid into a potential situation like that. The time to squash this racism was in October. The schools who stood strong right away are the ones who have been able to foster helpful dialog between both sides. I am all for it. These kids and the faculty for that matter need an appropriate outlet to talk about the conflict. When they don’t get it, it turns to violence.