Unhappy at Northwestern :(

monydad
Fri, 11 Feb 2011 10:46:06 +0000

“I really don’t know what your real point is.”
real point was stated in #10:

"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. "

BYU, vatican, etc.- intended as kidding by shifting cohort up a few (or more) notches in rightwards direction, for dramatic effect. For all the thousands of other readers who also thought I was seriously referencing a comparison of Northwestern to Bob Jones et al I apologize.

“Is there any reason you didn’t mention schools like Penn, Chicago, Cornell?” probably got tired, I know I did, I didn’t even mention BC, which is probably the easiest example. You want them included? Penn- the home of the radical hotbed Wharton school, Ibanking demonstrations perhaps more heated than Dartmouth; Chicago- home of Milton Friedman and the famously conservative Chicago school of economics; Cornell - mixed bag, leans liberal overall but certainly not “out there” overall. USC- the rich fratboys of SoCal, home of Ronald Reagan; man the ramparts when path to surf is blocked. Case Western- a largely engineering school in a conservative state =formula for radicalism?

To me, It seems like a pretty tame lineup. Someone deeply concerned about a uniformly liberal environment as a core issue might be better served considering a different cohort, save for perhaps a couple.