<p>We let our kids choose & were happy with their choices. They knew what they wanted & found it. </p>
<p>They would have likely been unhappy if FREEZING cold, very religious, VERY conservative. Surprisingly, both have adjusted well to urban life at their U & neiether staed any regrets. It happens to be known for football & partying and greek life, tho neither kid felt harmed by not being into those things.</p>
<p>Any school which has overwhelming number of one race (Asians included). I have to say that I am not a big supporter of single sex education. I know there has been many studies done to show how beneficial it is sometimes, but I am not a buyer of it.</p>
<p>Schools in the Northeast alone that have Quidditch teams include:</p>
<p>Harvard, Yale, Brandeis, Tufts, Carnegie Mellon, Penn State, Lafayette, Franklin and Marshall, Middlebury, Swarthmore, Smith, Syracuse, Vermont, Vassar, UMASS, St. Lawrence University, Villanova, Pittsburgh, NYU, Boston University, Geneseo, Stony Brook, University of Rochester and University of Pittsburgh.</p>
<p>You can get the full list of colleges to avoid at all cost here:</p>
<p>[Teams</a> | International Quidditch Association](<a href=“http://www.internationalquidditch.org/teams/]Teams”>http://www.internationalquidditch.org/teams/)</p>
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<p>They’re actually prosecuting students with dissenting views now? I don’t think any student’s conviction would stand.</p>
<p>My kids vehemently said they have always only wanted to attend co-ed campuses, preferably where the #s are about equal. Many campuses are “overwhelmingly” white. Do they get excluded? What is “overwhelmingly” anyway?</p>
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<p>That may screen out a majority of colleges and universities in the US, depending on what your definition of “overwhelming” is (assuming that overwhelmingly white colleges and universities are screened out).</p>
<p>Fascinating thread.</p>
<p>None of the “You do not want to go to that place, kid. The graduates of that program are impossible to work with because they are so full of themselves.” institutions that Happykid has been warned off of by her professional contacts has appeared here so far. </p>
<p>Where won’t she go? Anyplace that would cost us more than the fine in-state public U that offers her major.</p>
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<p>I am blowing raspberries at the computer screen in response. 
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<p>People don’t like schools that have quidditch teams? Good heavens, are y’all carrying the dark mark or something?
(and Go Tufflepuffs!)</p>
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<p>Thanks, Cobrat. I’m still somewhat incredulous that someone actually thought that Oberlin somehow caused or even contributed to a person’s transness. I wonder if that person would blame mine on the fact that I went to Yale, and cross it off his or her kids’ list accordingly.</p>
<p>Oh how I hate Ohio State…(GO BLUE!)</p>
<p>Hated Hampshire College - wouldn’t even get out of the car. It felt kinda creepy to me.</p>
<p>What’s wrong with Quidditch? Other than it’s a very odd game - people running around throwing balls with a broom between their legs - it’s harmless fun. My S’s high school just started a quidditch club last year, and he loved it.</p>
<p>I love the “party school” comments. EVERY college is a party college if you want it to be. The school I attended was not on ANY of the “party college” lists anywhere. There were plenty of parties to attend on any given weekend though.</p>
<p>No Quiddich? An entire generation of children fell deeply in love with reading because of the Harry Potter books and I think having Quiddich tournaments is an adorable way they can relive some of their childhood memories with fellow HP dorks without embarrassment. Do you feel the same about schools with ultimate frisbee and hackysack tournaments?</p>
<p>BTW, I am so excited to go see Oberlin with my D in April now; it already seems like a great fit for her, but the outpouring of love by the alums on this thread makes my heart happy :)</p>
<p>I’m with the group of no religious schools and my personal peeve it too much of a greek dominance. </p>
<p>To me the greek scene is an exercise in exclusion and discrimination. These are not qualities the need to be perpetuated. There is no activity that a greek group does (eg charitable causes) that joining a club couldn’t accomplish.</p>
<p>I fail to see how being part of a group of artificial connections is a replacement for real friends.</p>
<p>People in Greek may not agree with you that it is a group of artifical connections, and they are real friends. It is the case for D1, but she certainly didn’t pick her school because presence of Greek life.</p>
<p>To Lakemom^^ Neither of my kids were in a frat/sorority, and I was kicked out of mine, but that post shows a glaring lack of understanding of the Greek system. Artificial connections? Are friends you make through work or sports “artificial connections”? What is a REAL friend?</p>
<p>Great topic.</p>
<pre><code> My S is looking for a BSNursing. There are a couple of schools located in Newark, NJ (Rutgers, and NJUMD) that I made sure that we did not go anywhere near. Nursing students need to do more than just classroom work, they have to go to various medical facilites and do clinical time. My attitude is, if I wanted him to exerience war time conditions, I would send him to a war zone in the military, where he could atleast be armed.
I am very suprised that others have not noted that they have saftey concerns. Fordam University in the Bronx is also in a rough part of town. Temple University in Philly is also in a rough part of town as well, though it is getting better.
I do not care if the whole student population streaks accros campus / or accross town… get over it… And as far as going to a college that is in a state that once (over 100 years ago) tried to split from the union… again, get over it.
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<p>vassar…</p>
<p>What i mean by artificial connections is that you join a frat/sorority because the group choses you. It is not mutual and you have to prove you are deserving to be in the group by performing what ever tasks they deem are required. </p>
<p>In a club, you join because you are interested in what the club is about. You don’t have to do various social activities because the group expects/requires it. </p>
<p>What regular friendship requires this?</p>
<p>In work or sports, you may or may not connect with the people you are in the group with but they have no say about getting you fired or off the team nor did they pick you out of a group to join. You got the job or sports spot because you were qualified. How can you compare the two?</p>
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<p>I wasn’t in a sorority, but even I know that is wrong.</p>