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07.18.08, 13:50 PM New York City
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How much do you think your college has changed since you graduated? Is Harvard a completely different place with totally different values and level of education? Is Wesleyan suddenly now a strict authoritarian environment? [ Reply | Watch | Flag ]
New York City 07.18.08, 01:50 PM Flag
 

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See what you are saying, no and good point [ Reply | More
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General Topics 07.18.08, 01:51 PM Flag
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no one will reply to this because it makes far too much sense. [ Reply | More
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General Topics 07.18.08, 01:53 PM Flag
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I graduated from Wesleyan in '80 and would be shocked if it were authoritarian...but I really don't know! [ Reply | More
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General Topics 07.18.08, 02:13 PM Flag
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Exactly, then why do women on this sit post over and over again about how much has changed in these private schools? Because it is what they want to believe because it makes them feel in control, in the know and not out in the snow [ Reply | More
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General Topics 07.18.08, 02:15 PM Flag
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I have a slightly different interpretation. Those people who insist that nothing has changed in decades are terrified that they won't know how to negotiate an altered environment. [ Reply | More
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General Topics 07.18.08, 03:01 PM Flag
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That would be your interpretation but you would incorrect. BTW I am one of the people you may need to bypass to get in, good luck, you have no idea what you are talking about [ Reply | More
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General Topics 07.18.08, 03:06 PM Flag
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dc is already in [ Reply | More
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General Topics 07.18.08, 03:24 PM Flag
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i think it is the students that changed-raised by many helicopter parents, etc. a lot of different pressures now. i don't think I would have gotten into my college if I applied now. but I just had my reunion-school is still very similar values wise. it was good to see [ Reply | More
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General Topics 07.18.08, 02:15 PM Flag
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Good then understand the schools here remain the same as well. [ Reply | More
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General Topics 07.18.08, 02:15 PM Flag
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ok-i have no issues with changes or lack thereof in schools. but thanks for being bossy! [ Reply | More
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General Topics 07.18.08, 02:16 PM Flag
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I agree. I think students have changed a lot in the past 20-30 years. I think their expectations are different, the pressures they are under are different, their values are different, the things that they have been exposed to are different. Wesleyan may be Wesleyan, but I suspect that the student body has changed a lot over the past quarter century. [ Reply | More
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General Topics 07.18.08, 02:24 PM Flag
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Actually, my college has changed quite a bit in the past 25 years. Just because most institutions don't change much doesn't mean that none of them changes. [ Reply | More
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General Topics 07.18.08, 02:21 PM Flag
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Whatever, you people are so pathetic. All answering that your private colleges have not changed until you realize the point I was making. I don't need to hear anymore. We all know the truth. [ Reply | More
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General Topics 07.18.08, 02:30 PM Flag
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My nephew is now a student in the high school that I went to. Things are very different now than they were 25 years ago, at least at that particular high school. It isn't because the school or its mission are different. It's because the kids are different. [ Reply | More
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General Topics 07.18.08, 02:34 PM Flag
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I actually think Harvard is a VERY different place now from when I went there in the early nineties. I wouldn't get in now, for starters, since the applicant pool is much broader and more impressive, and they have drastically changed the social life on campus by taking away students' choice of what "house" to live in for their last three years of school. [ Reply | More
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General Topics 07.18.08, 02:46 PM Flag
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This OP is the kind of person - know-it-all, bossy, condescending, exclusive rather than inclusive - that many of us believe populate the private schools' parent bodies. And, probably worse, the kind of person many of these schools turn out. [ Reply | More
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General Topics 07.18.08, 06:19 PM Flag
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I graduated more than 10 yrs ago. I don't follow up on my college and don't know if they're same or diff. You remind me of the people who ask about what I got on my SAT. [ Reply | More
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General Topics 07.19.08, 07:33 AM Flag
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Your analogy (between colleges and NYC privates, I assume) does not really hold -- nyers have a limited # of schools we can apply to, while a HS senior can apply to any of 100s of schools. Much greater opportunity for the latter to select on the basis of philosophy (for example, most likely students who apply to Wesleyan are going to be comfortable with its "lefty, crunchy" aspects.) [ Reply | More
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General Topics 07.19.08, 12:28 PM Flag
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