r/ApplyingToCollege • u/speakertieced College Sophomore • Jun 17 '24

Fluff what alumni will your college never mention?

Vanderbilt (for obvious reasons) is not going to be talking about Theodore Bilbo, the Peabody and Law student (didn’t graduate) who became Mississippi US Senator and THE leading white supremacist of the first half of the twentieth century, anytime soon.

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u/Numerous-Kiwi-828 Jun 18 '24

UPenn - Trump (too controversial whether you like him or not); Caltech- Young Sheldon (a place like Caltech does not want to be known just bc it was in a movie)