Have you heard of Davidson College?

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Anonymous wrote:Yes, I have. It is a second-tier (nothing wrong with that) liberal arts college, and it is in the South.

It is in no way "second-tier". I know people who were admitted to schools such as Boston College, Wake Forest, Bowdoin & even Swathmore (with no "hook") who did not get into Davidson.

Signed,
Someone who did not go to Davidson & has no personal connection with the school whatsoever

The school is a good but not quite as good as they to brag. Their graduation job placement is not nearly as impressive as others.

I think the graduation placement is an issue with all liberal arts schools these days.

All of my kid's friends who graduated from a New England LAC in May found professional positions in New York - with Citibank, and other financial services firms, PR firms, Snapchat, etc. Their majors: Political Science, English and History. So the death of liberal arts education is greatly exaggerated to paraphase Mark Twain. Companies want smart kids who know how to think. Davidson is no different.

I doubt every single friend your child had landed a job at a bulge bracket bank or whatnot. Yes, there are companies that hire liberal arts majors, especially from top schools. However, statistically liberal arts majors don't fare as well in the job market right out of school. It's why you would see so many liberal arts grads attending law school during the recession. Unfortunately, liberal arts majors may be able to think but they don't necessarily have any skills.

I guess my six-figure salary, flex schedule and paid-for-by-employer MA and I will go cry in a corner now because I'm just a sad little LA major...

Look of course there are plenty of liberal arts majors that do well. However, the fact you are so defensive is telling.

LOL. That wasn't "defensive"--that poster slam-dunked your ass!

Signed, another successful LA major who is tired of all the "LA majors are useless" threads and posts

Don't think so. I also make well in the six figures. I don't have a liberal arts degree but a stem major and didn't pay a penny to go to college besides my parents paying room and board. I win! But is this really a contest? Who cares?

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Anonymous wrote:Yes, I have. It is a second-tier (nothing wrong with that) liberal arts college, and it is in the South.

It is in no way "second-tier". I know people who were admitted to schools such as Boston College, Wake Forest, Bowdoin & even Swathmore (with no "hook") who did not get into Davidson.

Signed,
Someone who did not go to Davidson & has no personal connection with the school whatsoever

The school is a good but not quite as good as they to brag. Their graduation job placement is not nearly as impressive as others.

I think the graduation placement is an issue with all liberal arts schools these days.

All of my kid's friends who graduated from a New England LAC in May found professional positions in New York - with Citibank, and other financial services firms, PR firms, Snapchat, etc. Their majors: Political Science, English and History. So the death of liberal arts education is greatly exaggerated to paraphase Mark Twain. Companies want smart kids who know how to think. Davidson is no different.

I doubt every single friend your child had landed a job at a bulge bracket bank or whatnot. Yes, there are companies that hire liberal arts majors, especially from top schools. However, statistically liberal arts majors don't fare as well in the job market right out of school. It's why you would see so many liberal arts grads attending law school during the recession. Unfortunately, liberal arts majors may be able to think but they don't necessarily have any skills.

I guess my six-figure salary, flex schedule and paid-for-by-employer MA and I will go cry in a corner now because I'm just a sad little LA major...

Look of course there are plenty of liberal arts majors that do well. However, the fact you are so defensive is telling.

LOL. That wasn't "defensive"--that poster slam-dunked your ass!

Signed, another successful LA major who is tired of all the "LA majors are useless" threads and posts

What is an MA?

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what the fuck does any of this have to do with Davidson College?

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If it was in the North it would be a nescac school. Totally in the same class as middlebury, Wesleyan, tufts, Amherst etc

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I know it from basketball. They're in the A-10. (and now we can have a thread on who has heard of the A-10. ) They're a pretty good team. Steph Curry went there, and went on to the NBA.

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Anonymous wrote:Yes, I have. It is a second-tier (nothing wrong with that) liberal arts college, and it is in the South.

So are the Naval academy, Harvey Mudd, Claremont McKenna, Haverford all second tier?

Of these, I've only ever heard of the Naval Academy.--NP

Then you are an ignoramus, or from flyover country, since they are all from one coast or another.

I always wonder whether the term "flyover country" is more classist or racist (in a self-hating white, anti-Tea-Party, Occupy Wall Street-sympathizing-but-not-acting-other-than-hashtags kind-of-way), and what drives people who use that term to insult (in their view) a fair portion of the country. I always assume that the person was raised in a Chevy or Ford family in the exurbs and who now has a difficult time going home for Thanksgiving, where everyone laughs about him/her after s/he leaves on Saturday morning.

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Anonymous wrote:Middle aged Northeastern guy here. Went to college in DC and grad school in the Midwest. I've heard the name of the school, but I confess that I thought it was in Pennsylvania.

That's Dickinson!

My own ignorance! Nothing against either school, they just aren't/weren't on my radar. I also had to Google "Steph Curry", so there you go.

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Anonymous wrote:Middle aged Northeastern guy here. Went to college in DC and grad school in the Midwest. I've heard the name of the school, but I confess that I thought it was in Pennsylvania.

That's Dickinson!

My own ignorance! Nothing against either school, they just aren't/weren't on my radar. I also had to Google "Steph Curry", so there you go.

Mine, too - I'm the PP who mixes up Dickinson and Denison all the time.

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Have all the people who have never heard of Davidson, and/or confuse it with Denison and Dickinson etc. NOT gone through the college app process recently? My child did last year and now I am very much familiar with each. (DC didn't apply to any of those three.)
I assume someone who doesn't know about those schools does not have college age kids.
I know three very accomplished kids going to Davidson this year. All impressive young people.

Not knowing Steph Curry ... really?!?! And I'm a middle-aged mom.

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Really. Signed, Another middle-aged mom. (And I have no intention of googling either!)

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Anonymous wrote:Have all the people who have never heard of Davidson, and/or confuse it with Denison and Dickinson etc. NOT gone through the college app process recently? My child did last year and now I am very much familiar with each. (DC didn't apply to any of those three.)
I assume someone who doesn't know about those schools does not have college age kids.
I know three very accomplished kids going to Davidson this year. All impressive young people.

Not knowing Steph Curry ... really?!?! And I'm a middle-aged mom.

+1 -- Also, I'm not sure why it matters that someone hasn't heard of Davidson unless that person hires recent college grads or is on a grad/professional school admissions staff.

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never heard of Denison or Dickinson, either!

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Anonymous wrote:Yes, I have. It is a second-tier (nothing wrong with that) liberal arts college, and it is in the South.

So are the Naval academy, Harvey Mudd, Claremont McKenna, Haverford all second tier?

These schools are much more fa mouse than Davidson, get real.

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Anonymous wrote:Yes, I have. It is a second-tier (nothing wrong with that) liberal arts college, and it is in the South.

It is in no way "second-tier". I know people who were admitted to schools such as Boston College, Wake Forest, Bowdoin & even Swathmore (with no "hook") who did not get into Davidson.

Signed,
Someone who did not go to Davidson & has no personal connection with the school whatsoever

The school is a good but not quite as good as they to brag. Their graduation job placement is not nearly as impressive as others.

I think the graduation placement is an issue with all liberal arts schools these days.

All of my kid's friends who graduated from a New England LAC in May found professional positions in New York - with Citibank, and other financial services firms, PR firms, Snapchat, etc. Their majors: Political Science, English and History. So the death of liberal arts education is greatly exaggerated to paraphase Mark Twain. Companies want smart kids who know how to think. Davidson is no different.

I doubt every single friend your child had landed a job at a bulge bracket bank or whatnot. Yes, there are companies that hire liberal arts majors, especially from top schools. However, statistically liberal arts majors don't fare as well in the job market right out of school. It's why you would see so many liberal arts grads attending law school during the recession. Unfortunately, liberal arts majors may be able to think but they don't necessarily have any skills.

Nope every single friend has landed a Manhattan job. True it is a good school. Top 20 but not top 10 and not Ivy. Just tired of seeing liberal arts graduates and liberal arts colleges so maligned. And it's no doubt true that some engineering school graduates are making more money right out of college. But not everyone wants to be an engineer, and many liberal arts graduates will end up supervising engineers who have the emotional intelligence and general knowledge/literacy of mushrooms.