Michigan vs. Georgetown vs. Oberlin

bclintonk
Wed, 03 Apr 2013 19:04:52 +0000

Isn’t Oberlin the one in the news about racial comments or something?

Yes it is. Also anti-semitic and anti-gay comments.



Kind of a cheap shot, since the Oberlin community is overwhelmingly united against these things, and my understanding is it’s not even clear whether it was someone associated with Oberlin who was responsible for them.

On the “politically progressive” front, there’s not much to choose between the three schools. Oberlin was founded as the nation’s first coeducational college, and it was the first to admit and the first to graduate black students. It’s been a beacon of progressive thinking in Ohio ever since. Ann Arbor is one of the most progressive cities in the nation, with a large, progressive, politically active student body. Georgetown’s students are also politically left of center, though traditionally more mainstream than Obies and Michigan students who have sometimes veered further to the left.

You’ll find the “intellectual but well-rounded environment” at any of these schools, though to be perfectly candid, I find both Michigan and Oberlin a little more “intellectual” than Georgetown which to me has more of a pre-professional vibe.