‘Kids Are Giving Up on Elite Colleges—and Heading South”
April 24, 2024
“…An unprecedented number of students are gravitating away from Ivy League universities and looking to Southern colleges that wouldn’t have been on their radar twenty years ago. The exodus is fueled, sources told me, by warmer weather, great college sports, and a more relaxed atmosphere…
But another factor driving kids away from elite schools is their dominant progressive politics, which many feel deepen cultural divides rather than promoting healthy debate. The old-school vision of colleges serving as an open forum for ideas has been replaced with an us-versus-them mentality, where there’s only one “right” answer to any thorny issue and the winner is the one who shouts the loudest…”
https://www.thefp.com/p/kids-skip-ivy-league-for-southern-schools
College is a scam. Don’t go to any of them. Save that money and invest it. It pays way more in the future.