Hamilton College

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Great place to spend $90,000 plus a year on a STEM degree and then end up making $65,000 a year getting chewed up teaching at an inner city charter school. Not exactly med school pipeline for all.

This fits the one Hamilton grad I know exactly.

Also describes two Ivy grads I know.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Great place to spend $90,000 plus a year on a STEM degree and then end up making $65,000 a year getting chewed up teaching at an inner city charter school. Not exactly med school pipeline for all.

This fits the one Hamilton grad I know exactly.

Also describes two Ivy grads I know.

One of the best HS teachers I had was an ivy grad. Exposure to a great teacher is a valuable and memorable gift.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Agree with others can’t imagine sending a kid to such a remote location with horrible long winters.

I not only could imagine it, but I sent my kid there! Where she is having an amazing time and is unbothered by the weather because she’s generally able to cope.

[Anonymous]

"Despite all I have seen and experienced, I still get the same simple thrill out of glimpsing a tiny patch of snow in a high mountain gully and feel the same urge to climb towards it."

— Edmund Hillary

[Anonymous]

Lots and lots of better options.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Agree with others can’t imagine sending a kid to such a remote location with horrible long winters.

I not only could imagine it, but I sent my kid there! Where she is having an amazing time and is unbothered by the weather because she’s generally able to cope.

+1. There is an amazing product called a warm coat. Some people on this thread need to give one a try and stop missing out on winter.

[Anonymous]

Agree with others, Hamilton is extremely hard sell to our kid. But not unique as several other SLACs are also remote.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Agree with others, Hamilton is extremely hard sell to our kid. But not unique as several other SLACs are also remote.

That is fine. Why send your kid off to a northern LAC if they would rather be in a city or in the south or at a huge University with thousands and thousands of students. that would makes no sense. For a student looking for an excellent small liberal arts college, Hamilton is great.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Lots and lots of better options.

Not really. It’s a top SLACs with an academic profile generally equal to ANY top SLAC.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Lots and lots of better options.

Not really. It’s a top SLACs with an academic profile generally equal to ANY top SLAC.

Agree -- Hamilton is basically at the top for SLAC. I would rank Pomona/CMC and Williams/Amherst above it, but it is basically a peer to Middlebury/Bowdoin at this point.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Lots and lots of better options.

Not really. It’s a top SLACs with an academic profile generally equal to ANY top SLAC.

Agree -- Hamilton is basically at the top for SLAC. I would rank Pomona/CMC and Williams/Amherst above it, but it is basically a peer to Middlebury/Bowdoin at this point.

Pomona, CMC, Williams, Amherst and Swarthmore are all peers of Bowdoin and Middlebury with all of them except CMC consistently in the top 10 SLACs for the last half century. There is no measurable difference in student or academic quality among them. Hamilton has traditionally ranked a bit lower but not enough to matter; they belong in the same group.

[Anonymous]

Forget remote Hamilton go to Swarthmore, Haverford, Holy Cross or Wellesley.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Agree with others can’t imagine sending a kid to such a remote location with horrible long winters.

I not only could imagine it, but I sent my kid there! Where she is having an amazing time and is unbothered by the weather because she’s generally able to cope.

+1. There is an amazing product called a warm coat. Some people on this thread need to give one a try and stop missing out on winter.

I spent four amazing years in Clinton, NY! The personal and professional network is strong. For those not interested, thankfully there are thousands of other amazing colleges waiting for you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Forget remote Hamilton go to Swarthmore, Haverford, [-b]Holy Cross[/b] or Wellesley.

Doesn't this represent a culmination of what you have been doing throughout the topic, implanting the idea of Hamilton's "remoteness" so that, in time, you could mention Holy Cross as an alternative?

[Anonymous]

Based on a Princeton Review survey, Hamilton places highly for "classroom experience":

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