“These kids are not in a mood to tolerate NE weirdness anymore”
I’ve taught at a New England prep school for nearly 20 years. Families have been laser focused on top tier colleges, most of which are up here.
Except for a very few exceptional candidates, this has changed.
Dramatically.
There is another “great migration” happening, as a steady flow of middle and upper middle-class children of the meritocratic class have decided to go to college in the spirit of normalcy.
10 years ago a kid or two went south. Maybe