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<p>domi555, that one is totally inaccurate. It’s a little bit hipster, a little bit hippie, a lot intellectual, and a lot musical. It’s been skewered by GQ Magazine as one of the “limousine liberal” schools, along with Brown U, Wesleyan, and others, but there is quite a bit of socioeconomic diversity. But there is a key difference between Oberlin and those east coast colleges. Oberlin is not on the east coast. It has a friendlier, less-pretentious midwestern vibe that shot it to the top of my D2’s list. She turned down an Ivy to go to Oberlin, in part because of what she felt was a difference between midwest and east coast in general tone and campus culture. My D was born and raised in the upper midwest but went to high school in the east, so she had a valid basis of comparison. After four years of high school on the east coast, I guess she’d had enough. Ohio isn’t exactly “upper” midwest but it’s midwest enough, I guess.</p>
<p>Here’s a link to a thread posted here two years ago with a similar question that included the word “freak.” I don’t take your inquiry in the same way the question was posed two years ago. Not at all. Still, you may find the reactions of posters on this board to that earlier question enlightening about Oberlin. As a somewhat conservative parent who has visited many times in the last two years, the “freak” rumor is utter nonsense. <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/oberlin-college/798296-letting-freak-flag-fly-going-too-far.html?highlight=letting+the+freak+flag+fly[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/oberlin-college/798296-letting-freak-flag-fly-going-too-far.html?highlight=letting+the+freak+flag+fly</a></p>