<p>lol at people getting into a tizzy about Northwestern…obviously any college named is going to strike a nerve if your kid goes there, but the thread title is what it is. I can name many many great schools that I would not want my kids to attend…so what.</p>
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<p>Same here. I think place names are very important. I won’t live on a street with a dumb name either.</p>
<p>I wouldn’t be surprised annasdad’s kid’s magnet math/science school would have a lot of kids be interested in NU, considering the location and NU’s reputation. I would like to know what’s annasdad’s personal experience of NU.</p>
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<p>Oh PLEASE…tell me this is a ■■■■■■■■ post.</p>
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<p>I’d be thrilled if my kid picked Harvey Mudd (and if Harvey Mudd picked her).</p>
<p>[Harvey</a> Mudd College Grads are Highest Earning Liberal Arts Grads in Nation](<a href=“http://www.hmc.edu/newsandevents/payscale-highest-earning-liberal-arts-grads-in-nation.html]Harvey”>http://www.hmc.edu/newsandevents/payscale-highest-earning-liberal-arts-grads-in-nation.html)</p>
<p>We told our kids they could go anywhere but Ohio State. My parents told me the same thing!</p>
<p>Go Blue!</p>
<p>My parents told me they wouldn’t let me go to BC or Penn state. Something to do with sports I think, but alas, I’m a theater kid. </p>
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<p>What post on this thread is not a trolling post?</p>
<p>I guess I need to start putting in emoticons.</p>
<p>At least I didn’t rule out a whole section of the country based on something that happened a century and a half ago.</p>
<p>Some pretty provinical thinking folks can be found in both the north and the south, so it appears.</p>
<p>Back to the OP: when my daughter started looking, I said no way SC, because of the area, as well as my outdated perception of its academic strength. (To be fair, I also looked very askance at Chicago, Penn and Columbia due to their locations in (my perception) sketchy areas). One of the points of this whole college process is to get better information, as well as to get past in-born rivalries. To give Slithey some grief (post #52?), I went to one of his nemesis schools and she is at the other; my brother is still aghast that she didn’t go to UCLA. (His direct quote: “What are you going to do on football days?”)</p>
<p>Kathyc, our DD’s second choice was U of South Carolina. It’s a GREAT school. She also received a fabulous merit award from them. We would have been happy for her to attend (not for the money, but for the programs). She decided to go with her first choice…which was fine with us as well.</p>
<p>Not a school that has a disturbing cultish following that clouds the judgement of otherwise normal people
Not a school that appears to be a theme park
Not a school that is the entire focus of the community and nothing else in the town
Not a school that accepts students because of parent’s alumni status and not academic capabilities
Not a state school out of our own state</p>
<p>Actually, Thumper, SC is Southern Cal (as opposed to some people up here in Northern California who think I mean Santa Clara!)</p>
<p>Well Kathy, I knew you couldn’t possibly have meant Santa Clara:)</p>
<p>As if! Santa Clara is in a beautiful location!</p>
<p>“Not a school that has a disturbing cultish following that clouds the judgement of otherwise normal people”</p>
<p>I’m intrigued. My first guess are ivies. .???</p>
<p>Red point, around here, you would be talking Notre Dame. Where, I told my kids, they could go, but we wouldn’t pay.</p>
<p>The school that sent my daughter an email with the subject line: </p>
<p>“Your invited to…” [an event for admitted students]. </p>
<p>This is a fairly well-respected school, but that pretty much ruined its image for me!</p>
<p>Schools that consistently appear on FIRE’s (Foundation for Individual Rights in Education) list and do not resolve the issue. </p>
<p>[Case</a> Archive - FIRE](<a href=“http://thefire.org/cases/all/]Case”>Cases | The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression)</p>
<p>Basically, no school that has proudly institutionalized mandatory PC speak and thus stymied the free and honest exchange of ideas.</p>
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<p>What does that mean any more?
Way back in my day, there were schools (in)famous for being “party schools.”
They generally appeared to be located near a beach.</p>
<p>Nowadays, any school I mention to someone of a younger generation, they say “Oh, that’s a party school.”</p>
<p>Let’s be real. Take some 18 to 22-year-olds, living away from home, add some free time and mix in some alcohol … the results will always be the same.</p>