@lookingforward Well, if you’re not from the Midwest, it’s a little hard to describe. She’s white-bread as maybe some people would say! We live in a boring, suburban Chicago that’s not very diverse. (S19 just met a Jewish person for the first time in college…no joke.) She’s not edgy. Upper middle class. She does like doing community service and dance as I mentioned.
I also grew up in Chicago and went to Northwestern. I definitely identified most with the midwestern, suburban public school kids but I loved meeting kids from the NE and from the western US. This might seem like a vast generalization but those kids always seemed more independent, more interesting, but I was also a little intimidated by the private school kids. They just seemed older and had way more life experience. Not a bad thing, but I couldn’t relate. At a smaller school like Bates, if a decent percent of kids are from the NE and/or private schools, I think she’d feel like a fish out of water.
i just looked Only 5% from the Midwest in the last class. Hm.