<p>Actually, the midwest only consists of the Chicago airport. EXCEPT-in basketball season when more eyes turn that way. Oh, but wait, they have top ranked football teams, too!</p>
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<p>Gee, I thought that’s what you learn from the NY or LA Times!</p>
<p>Then there’s the converse about eastern students:
+##: If you’re interested in east coast schools, you must be a prestige whore who only cares about the money earned when you get out.</p>
<p>+###: If you’re not interested in midwest schools, you must be a prestige whore who only cares about money earned when you get out.</p>
<p>further wisdom on the Midwest:</p>
<p>It is unwise to attend a college or university in any state that is rectangular.</p>
<p>But rectangular is probably better than red…</p>
<p>if there’s actually any difference.</p>
<p>If you don’t independent study for one or more AP tests in your spare time (of course you will get a 5) you are a slacker.</p>
<h1>+? agree on the rectangular states (howcum there’s an upper, but not lower, midwest?), being provincial, like everyone else, we don’t read any newspapers ending in “Times”, the last election was bruising-red/blue/purple…certain very high ranking politicians learned they should have ignored us.</h1>
<p>From the midwest to the south…</p>
<p>If you are not from the south but your child is considering a southern school you must must visit (or consult someone who has) to see your child can adapt to the “southern culture”.</p>
<p>What have I found after being on CC for a while?</p>
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<li>I am the polar opposite of what a college student should be.</li>
<li>I might drive a Volvo and dress nice, but I’m still a blue collar guy at heart.</li>
<li>I must be pretty stupid if I only got a 29 on my ACT.</li>
<li>I don’t go to Harvard. Looks like I’m not going to have enough money to retire at age 60.</li>
<li>I must be strange because I don’t have any relationship problems. Heck, I don’t have a relationship (hence the lack of problems).</li>
<li>There must also be something wrong with me in the fact I still support my high school.</li>
<li>Everyone on here seems to be addicted to college football, so I guess I’m un-American in the fact that I’m not a huge fan.</li>
<li>So I guess I’m also a loser because I refuse to ever get involved in greek life?</li>
<li>Even in this section, it makes my mother sound like a slacker becauuse I only got a 3.76 in high school.</li>
<li>That goes double for me, who didn’t take any AP’s, only two honors (one math and one music), and wants a 3.85 or so for college.</li>
<li>My mom only makes $40K per year, so I guess I’m lumped in with the welfare crowd here.</li>
<li>I could care less about cell phones. That also makes me weird, right?</li>
<li>I go to church every week. That too looks like it’s not acceptable on these forums.</li>
<li>Am I really the only big baseball fan here?</li>
<li>I commute and I’m happy about that. But I guess that’s strange thinking as well.</li>
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<p>Basically, being on here for a while has made me feel like an outcast on these forums. But that’s okay, because YOU SHOULD NEVER TRY TO CHANGE ME, I CAN BE NOBODY ELSE…AND I LIKE THE WAY I AM!!!</p>
<p>AFP–you sound like a nice person, but maybe you need to read a little more here before you make any snap judgments.</p>
<p>Just speaking for myself–I love baseball and talk about it all the time here, I go to church regularly as do many, many parent posters (where you get the idea they don’t, i don’t know), I don’t expect my kids to be perfect, and they’re not (but they’re fine people whom I’m very proud of), and I have no desire to change you!</p>
<p>Speaking about the Parents Forum as a whole, opinions on Greek life are, to say the least, very divided. I’ve never heard anyone here lump someone with a lower income into the “welfare crowd.” I don’t think anyone cares if you have a cell phone or not (my daughter didn’t have one till after she graduated from college.) Lots of people’s kids don’t have relationship problems, or don’t have relationships at this time. Most parents here, actually, don’t discuss their kids’ relationships. So, yours are your own business, no need to bring up at all if you don’t want to. </p>
<p>This is a pretty accepting forum. I suggest you pull up a chair, relax a little, and get to know people. We’re a pretty helpful bunch, on the whole, and no one wants to change you.</p>
<p>No one here wants to change you, but they do want you to keep an “open mind” (i.e., think like they do), or have a “dialog” (i.e., think like they do). ;)</p>
<p>…rectangular state…ok…LOL</p>
<p>another cc fact:</p>
<p>If you get accepted at Yale or Harvard, you will automatically get a full tuition merit scholarship at a lower school like Chicago or Duke.</p>
<p>^^^</p>
<p>Another cc fact: Chicago or Duke are <em>lower</em> schools than Yale and Harvard. ;)</p>
<p>jmmom – yup . . . </p>
<p>-parent of a child at a lower school and one at, “gasp,” a STATE SCHOOL!-</p>
<p>and now, my third child wants to go to school in the MIDWEST (OMG!!) </p>
<p>LOLOLOLOLOLOLO . . .L</p>
<p>That there are an awful lot of fast typists here!</p>
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And to continue the thought, at school even lower, like those ranked 20-50, they hand out full-rides to anyone who meets their rigorous “no shoes, no shirt, no scholarship” requirement.</p>
<p>LOL, curmudgeon.</p>
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<p>At the lowest schools (ranked like 51-100), if you have the right numbers, they’ll give you a full-ride scholarship, room and board, book allowance, a new notebook computer every year, a Lexus of your choice, hot and cold running booze, and a personal servant – gender and orientation of your choosing. These schools are so desperate that they will even waive classroom attendance and homework if your SAT is over 2200.</p>
<p>the comment about rice is false(then again, all of these statements are overexaggerated)</p>
<p>As a follow-up to post #258, you will also be accepted to any law or medical school of your choice. Law schools and medical schools don’t care where you go to school or even if you go to class. They don’t like the elite school applicants anyway. Too darn many of them.</p>