<p>StringPop–Your daughter should meet my daughter, a junior, who also is a non-brand-name-clothes-wearing, politically progressive, middle class, non-sorority pledging girl from the south who wears New Balance sneakers and has dark curly hair. There are plenty of them at Vanderbilt that are very happy with their choice in a college! </p>
<p>It is absurd to think that every girl who does not have long blond hair and Tory Burch flats at Vanderbilt is miserable and feels like a social outcast–they are far too intelligent and involved in their political/environmental/charitable/artistic causes to worry about “not fitting in.”</p>