Unhappy at Northwestern :(

monydad
Thu, 10 Feb 2011 09:29:27 +0000

The above “Privates - Very High Selective:” seems like a pretty tame collection of schools, to me. Being on the liberal side compared to this particular small collection does not seem too difficult. I can’t envision many students manning the ramparts at Cal Tech. Or at Dartmouth, unless they were blocking I-banking recruitment. The whole South is a collection of “red states”, basically.

Someone for whom political orientation of the student body is more of a priority might better seek company with other collections, including Brown,Harvard, and a number of the “very High Selective 4 year colleges” including Vassar, Oberlin, Reed, Swarthmore, etc.

Being “more liberal than average” out of a selected cohort that is not all that liberal is not that much of an achievement, seems to me.

“Why let homophobia push you out of a place that, at one point, you were otherwise highly motivated to attend?”

I donno, maybe because it makes him feel very bad?? If I felt like I did not fit in someplace I would think about leaving too.