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Out West
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| Posted: Sat Apr 03, 2004 12:13 pm
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Sal,
I still say if substance free was her major priority she should have looked
at womens colleges. 
Oh, and
Congrats on her acceptances to ANY of the UC's. They are turning out to be
the toughest admits of the season this year!
-B
"Sally" <sunsol@prodigy.net> wrote in message
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| Quote: | SJG <ucb_gal@pleaseremove.yahoo.com> wrote in message
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On 3/17/04 8:05 AM, in article
2398fe97.0403170805.fb73695@posting.google.com, "Sally"
sunsol@prodigy.net
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Abe,
Thanks for the headsup. I guess at the time of application I thought
that sub-free dorms were a possibility at those private schools. But I
don't think so now. I don't know. Maybe we should forget about this
trip, since, as I said, acceptance at all three is unlikely. In
addition, several west coast acceptances are in. I think a couple of
those schools would be a good match. UCLA has a Health and Wellness
dorm. Maybe that could work. University of Washington, Seattle has
sub-free dorms. Combine that with the honors program, and it looks
like a winner. Davis also has a sub-free dorm. We haven't heard from
Berkeley yet, but it has a sub-free dorm.
Sal
Do you want to pick colleges based on *dorms*?
In part, yes. The student wants to live someplace with a studious
atmosphere.
I'd first figure out how
long students live in dorms. At Berkeley, you'd be a little weird to
live
in the dorms for more than your first year.
Yes, that is true, but it could be one miserable year.
And my friends that attended
UCLA didn't stay in the dorms for very long either.
Also, at Berkeley, theme dorms were usually just a single floor on a
dorm.
Thus, life on a theme floor wasn't much different than life on a
non-theme
floor.
I disagree.
I suppose you'd just get a roommate (or two or three) who marked
similar categories as you, but (at Berkeley) they do this anyway.
If you, or your child, is worried about your child's living situation, I
think a better thing to do would be to visit the various dorms. Some
dorms
are markedly nicer than others, and I would imagine that this would have
a
larger effect on his/her life than living in a themed dorm.
Again, I disagree.
Furthermore,
ask how they assign roommates -- randomly or through a matching process.
And find out what the process is if roommates are incompatible.
Good point. This is also a consideration.
Your child will find people with similar interests to live with after
his/her first year, and, in some sense, can create his/her own
mini-themed
dorm with them :)
Right.
S.
Sal |
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Joshua P. Hill
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| Posted: Sat Apr 03, 2004 11:55 pm
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On 2 Apr 2004 16:55:33 -0800, sunsol@prodigy.net (Sally) wrote:
| Quote: | Joshua P. Hill <josh442REMOVETHIS@snet.net> wrote in message news:<nsjp60pbo6s8j6fcfa6cmfbiuevadniok6@4ax.com>...
I'm not sure what you're getting at with that quote, Sal: that's
probably true of most schools. And I've no reason to believe that the
substance-free dorm at Berkeley isn't substance free.
Well, didn't you agree with Abe that there is no sex-free zone in a
harem and no sub-free zone in Berkeley, or did I misunderstand?
This quote?
"My freshman year in the dorms
started off on a bad foot since my aggressive insulting behavior
during my excessive drinking bouts during the first week seemed to
alienate my whole building. At that point in my life I still believed
in the whole stereotyped portrayl of college in which everyone goes to
parties, gets trashed and gets laid. Now I'm not sure how true this is
at other schools but it certainly isn't the case at Cal. This is not
to say that there are no parties and no drunken debauchery but
partying just isn't the universal theme as it seems to be at schools
such as UCSB."
I thought it was amusing that he alienated his whole building by
getting drunk.
"Because UC Berkeley has 20,000 very diverse students, chances are
there are going to be certain people you click with and certain people
you clash with. I realized as I found my own niche that the people I
got along best with are the sort of people who think getting trashed
and making a fool of yourself is something to be laughed at rather
than to be treated as an unforgivable sin"
I also found it amusing that getting trashed was an unforgiveable sin
in many student's eyes.
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This is true, I think, at any school, even those that have a
reputation as partying schools. No one is ever /forced/ to use drugs
or alcohol. At the same time, if one is concerned that one's child is
impressionable enough to behave irresponsibly (or has such
tendencies), some schools are probably somewhat safer than others,
since there's a certain amount of temptation to do what everyone else
is doing.
| Quote: | I thought perhaps the statement about getting high was hyperbole, and
I wanted to know what your actual experience was.
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I haven't spent much time there, if that's what you're asking. What I
know I know from brief observation and what I hear and read.
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Josh
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Sally
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| Posted: Sun Apr 04, 2004 2:38 am
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"Out West" <byer5@nospamearthlink.net> wrote in message news:<OJrbc.13632$lt2.12958@newsread1.news.pas.earthlink.net>...
| Quote: | Sal,
I still say if substance free was her major priority she should have looked
at womens colleges.
Oh, and
Congrats on her acceptances to ANY of the UC's. They are turning out to be
the toughest admits of the season this year!
-B
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B,
Haven't heard from you in awhile. What's happening? Is your daughter
still enjoying Mills? Is Mills sub-free? Why do you think women's
colleges are better? Women tend to drink less?
Yep, accepted at every UC applied to, including UCB and UCLA. YEAH!!
Of course, I still think Davis outshines them all, but that is just
me.
Sal |
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Abe Kohen
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| Posted: Sun Apr 04, 2004 7:12 am
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"Sally" <sunsol@prodigy.net> wrote in message
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| Quote: | "Out West" <byer5@nospamearthlink.net> wrote in message
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Sal,
I still say if substance free was her major priority she should have
looked
at womens colleges.
Oh, and
Congrats on her acceptances to ANY of the UC's. They are turning out to
be
the toughest admits of the season this year!
-B
B,
Haven't heard from you in awhile. What's happening? Is your daughter
still enjoying Mills? Is Mills sub-free? Why do you think women's
colleges are better? Women tend to drink less?
Yep, accepted at every UC applied to, including UCB and UCLA. YEAH!!
Of course, I still think Davis outshines them all, but that is just
me.
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Congratulations.
AFAIK, Davis outshines the others in Ag, including wine growing.
Also if you are looking for a more "conservative" campus and town, then
Davis is it.
Abe |
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