@NuScholar
As with all prospective students, I wish your mentee the very best in finding her perfect fit, and I hope she has a wonderful college experience!
Maybe @NuScholar’s mentee didn’t get in or get the scholarship she felt like she deserved. It’s weird for someone to be so active in a thread for a school he clearly doesn’t care for (and doesn’t have his own child attending to be able to speak from personal experience). And to spend so much time digging up articles. I could find lots and lots of articles like that for UT Austin since I am an alum and keep up, but choose not to. Sounds like he has an axe to grind and this is an easy forum.
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“The typical TCU student isn’t motivated to change the world at all and actively fight against any progressive efforts”.
“My mentee is a young straight white woman who is a proud Democrat and is very vocal about equality”.
Yet, she is not “vocal” or “motivated” enough to be a TCU student and “change the world” as you expect others to be? — Wouldn’t TCU be a perfect place for her to make a difference if it is in need of so much change as you claim? Yet, you attack the current TCU students who are actually there with those same values and claim they aren’t vocal enough?
And yes, I could dig up articles on issues like this on several other private, less diverse campuses (do you go and post on SMU and Baylor forums like this too?). We all know the biggest factor working against TCU’s diversity is its price and geographic location…most students tend to stay close to home and many students (assumingly) can’t afford it…so it’s demographics reflect that…FACT: you can’t accept students who don’t apply. Yet, TCU is fierce in trying to recruit and overcome this and become more diverse…lots of articles on that.
Again, your quote:
“The typical TCU student isn’t motivated to change the world at all and actively fight against any progressive efforts”.
I don’t know why there is such an effort here on your part to purposely seek out prospective TCU students and bash on the school…let’s be honest: you could insert almost any school name in that quote and you would be correct. Most students may be vocal among their friends, but most college students are typically not part of an organized efforts for progressive movements while in school…they are busy students. (I would say the Greek system is one of the most community service-oriented group on campus).
Even most working adults are apathetic: unless their own child is involved in something, it is difficult to round up volunteers for community efforts of any kind. Yet still, TCU DOES have extensive community service “changing the world” projects going on by numerous organizations on campus. And many diversity-inspired initiatives. Go read those articles. Two of your articles are from 2009 and 2012…as I mentioned originally, it’s not the same school it was ten years ago.
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LOL at Ben Shapiro being “beloved” by white supremacists. The guy is an orthodox jew who wears a yarmulke. He also spoke at UC-Berkeley so I’m sure that makes them a haven for conservatives.
Look, I agree with @NuScholar that if you are a student steeped in intersectionality grievance culture that TCU may not be the place for you. If you want weekly student-led protests, sit-ins at administrative offices, and counseling for microaggressions, you aren’t likely to get them at TCU. The good news is that there are about a gazillion other schools in the USA where the inmates are running the asylum and your child or mentee can go enroll at the one where they feel most included and “safe.”
Not having attended TCU but with a child who attends, my impression is that the students there are fairly apolitical, and don’t really have well-formed opinions on any of the issues that @NuScholar listed, except for not seeing any problems with gay marriage, and recognizing that racism is abhorrent. I’ve walked around campus dozens of times and have never once seen someone wearing a MAGA hat. Conservative gadfly Stephen Crowder showed up outside campus last year on a public sidewalk (as he does at colleges all over the country) and while several students had cases of the vapors, my kid’s only impression of him was that he was “annoying” (which is my assessment of him as well) I just don’t think they pay much attention to these issues, and to the extent they do, they probably absorb the left of center biases of most popular culture that they consume like Stephen Colbert, John Oliver, The Daily Show, etc.
Unfortunately, in today’s climate not being a card-carrying Bernie Sanders supporter makes you to the right of Pat Buchanan according to some, but make no mistake, TCU is not an explicitly conservative institution like Oral Roberts or Bob Jones. The “C” does stand for “Christian,” but all that means is the student has to take one theology course in their four years. Many parents who don’t have strong political leanings are nevertheless concerned about watching the Left’s Long March Through the Institutions and paying $60,000+ a year to send their kid to a place where all the professors are Marxists and they will come out with a useless degree in Woke Studies. We like a school where the Economics professors assign Thomas Sowell instead of Thomas Piketty. And @loribelle is right, all those Greek Organizations do lots of service work to raise money for charities.
Bottom line, TCU is not a progressive school, and you likely won’t get the opportunity to pull down a statute or shout down a speaker who has different opinions from you, but neither are you likely to be indoctrinated by conservative politics. It is not the mirror-image of a place like Evergreen or Middlebury where there is group think in one direction only. TCU is, however, located in a big city in the extremely diverse state of Texas, and if you walk a couple blocks east of campus you will encounter more persons of color than you would by driving in a 50 mile radius of either of those two other campuses. There are precincts less than 3 miles from TCU’s campus that voted 95% for Hillary Clinton in 2016. So assuming that college kids actually leave their campuses, which student will experience more diversity in their four years at school?
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How many TCU students venture “a couple blocks” off campus, much less three miles away at a predominately Democratic (and presumably minority) area? Hey, it’s a fun place with strong academics and excellent opportunities. From what I can tell, it’s trying to be more diverse but has a long way to go.
They tried to recruit my top 5% Hispanic niece but she and friends laughed at the price tag.
@NuScholar nothing you said was true nor back up by evidence.
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@NuScholar I am a current TCU student from a low-middle class family and belong to LGBTQ+ category. Nothing you said from my experience is true. You aren’t a current or former TCU alumni or student it’s best you keep OPINIONS to yourself.
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Fort Worth is great and TCU sits in one of the very best parts of the city. Everyone I know who attended the school loved it. I enjoyed living in the TCU area as an adult when I was in Fort Worth.
If you can get some scholarship or grant money to make it affordable then you should definitely consider it. However, I would not go into huge debt just to attend TCU.
You may find yourself very resentful toward the UT-Arlington grad in the next cubicle who only spent 1/3 of what you spent to get the exact same job as you.
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