English Major at Haverford

Faline2
Fri, 17 Apr 2009 22:24:54 +0000

we live in the more rural part of Virginia…I would say Haverford draws from Northern Virginia and has name recognition there. We live in Hokie Country. You would think our local paper is the Virginia Tech paper. The last 24 hours of course have been full of wrenching reporting on students who were there during the shootings, many from right here in our town. VMI gets tons of attention. UVA gets some attention. Otherwise, no one speaks of any colleges up north. Philadelphia is vaguely equated with New England, not connected at all in anyone’s minds with its relatively easy access to the DC burbs where northern Virginians live.

I was just thinking of your experiences listening to kids in New England hotly debating the trivial and inane “distinctions” and pros and cons of many of the finest liberal arts colleges in America, and the intense interest where you grew up re getting into the northern LACs.

Son was making his initial visits to Haverford and Swat last year, and his GF of that time complained to him, “why are you driving Waaaay up there applying to “random” colleges?”

What a difference where you live can make.