Yes, WFU, Vanderbilt, TCU, SMU, all popular along with SEC schools, but I am seeing Wesleyan, Barnard, Colgate, Bates, Wellesley in greater numbers than previous years. A lot of Dartmouth and NYU also.
Just saw that Duke reported a 7% drop in EA applications. Duke ED Admits 13.8% to Class of 2030; Reports 7% Drop in Applications
Send your non-binary kids to Warren Wilson. Itās the gayest school Iāve ever seen. Over 50% of students there identify as LGBTQ and there are many many trans kids there.
Yes, the legislature in NC sucks rocks, but the governor is a good guy and many of the city and town governments are amazing. We are in the Triangle. Durham is especially liberal and LGBTQ embracing. Chapel Hill and Carrboro have had LGBTQ mayors for decades. Carrboro elected a gay mayor in 1995 and both cities have long had other gay officials since the 1980s. Raleigh has had LGBTQ officials too and has a pretty welcoming LGBTQ scene.
But I grew up in NC and yes there are parts of the state that are back-asswards so to speak and sometimes back-asswards people get elected and gerrymander the whole state, but that is not who we are as North Carolinians or we would have crazy Mark Robinson for governor now. We just really really need to get rid of gerrymandering in this country.
@momofboiler1, well Stephen Miller and Richard Nixon are Duke alums so that would turn me off.
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Which is interesting because, at our HS at least, Duke ED was brutal. Stellar students being outright rejected.
This thread has devolved into politics masquerading as college discussion. I usually enjoy these long threads but I have to stop following this one! I just read a comment with āitās a factā followed by completely partisan talking points! I have a completely different opinion but Iāll save it for the politics forum where itās appropriate.
Some kids are going South whether northerners like it or not. Not everyone shares the same politics.
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I can confirm this.
I have a kid at an Ivy who given a do-over would have headed for Vandy or Duke.
Kids are applying to southern schools for many reasons: sports, weather, Greek life, getting away from parents, and for some, itās where they feel they can be safe and accepted. What is the dominant reason? Who knows?
Itās not just college kids. A great migration is afoot that I think sociologists will be writing about this and parsing the reasons and implications for years. Until then, we can just speculate.
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Interesting changesā- when my kids were at a jewish Day school, the school stopped supporting the (now defunct) Duke TIP program because of Dukeās antisemitic issues then.
A reminder that this is the A2C forum, not the politics forum. While political statement of facts are allowed here, opinions about politics are not. Letās return focus to the original question as asked.
FWIW, by the time my son went through (I think) the same Jewish day school, they were once again participating in Duke TIP. The most recent ADL antisemitism report gives Duke aāBā. Other Southern schools on the report card include:
UGA: A
University of Alabama: A
Vanderbilt: A
Elon: A
Tulane: B
University of South Carolina: B
Georgia Tech: B
FSU: B
Wake Forest: B
University of Florida: B
UT Austin: B
Emory: C
UVA: C
UNC Chapel Hill: C
Rice: C
Editing to add @HelicopterParent1 you might also want to check out the AMCHA database which documents antisemitic and anti Zionist activity on a larger array of campuses
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Actually I think (?) our kids went to different Day schools??
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UNC Asheville also.
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Donāt trust that ADL report for even one second. All those schools with lower scores, itās because of protests on campus re Palestine. Thereās no way the campus climate for Jewish students at UGA is better than Emory.
This is a cool resource.
I looked up D26ās preferred school (University of Arizona) and it got a B.
Columbia University scored a D.
Other interesting ones:
- Harvard - C
- NYU - B
- Princeton - D
- Dartmouth - B
- Yale - D
- MIT - D
- Caltech - C
- Stanford - C
- WashU St Louis - B
- UCLA - D
- Michigan - C
- USC - C
- Swarthmore - D
- Amherst - B
- Williams - C
Is there an alternate/additional resource youād recommend?
Hillel?
UGA is less than 3% Jewish and Emory is more than 30% Jewish. I know that doesnāt tell the whole story, but cleary Jewish students are comfortable going there. They also have the very best campus rabbi!
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