_-elijah t1_j11pc3p wrote on December 21, 2022 at 12:47 AM

Local Danburian here. Definitely a stigma against people from Danbury going to WCSU because they look at it as DHS 2.0. Everyone who I know that went there went there for either cost reasons, the nursing program, or because they procrastinated their applications until the last two weeks and didn’t research any other schools. A lot of the socially isolated people from DHS ended up going to Westconn

KeifHaring t1_j1268i0 wrote on December 21, 2022 at 2:57 AM

I’m also local to the area remember WCSU being used as a threat by my parents as the only school I could go to if my grades weren’t high enough. Now that I’m older, I realized there were a bunch of my now colleagues who went there for the same education I got but for a way cheaper price. Kinda funny how in the end, we all ended up working for the same company to start out but I had to pay extra money to go to a “better” college

beaveristired t1_j14ha81 wrote on December 21, 2022 at 4:36 PM

CCSU feels like this too. I grew up in a nearby town and walking through the CCSU student center felt like walking through my high school. It was kinda depressing and not very motivating. I saved a lot of money going there, but after 2 years I transferred to Umass. I needed to feel like I was progressing and moving forward, and CCSU felt like stagnation.

(I ended up at CCSU because I disliked the first college I went to, and it felt like a waste of money so I transferred to Central after one semester to save money and regroup.)