The students who get into top SLACs and top universities don't seem to be picking the former

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Anonymous wrote:Sad? The truth is that SLACS, especially cold, rural ones, are out of style. They have no lay name recognition and are absurdly expensive with no opportunity to live off-campus later to save $.

Hmm. You must be right. I guess that's why the top SLACs have admit rates of under 10% and 1500+ SAT scores.
Those places still manage to fill their classes every year with very, very strong students.

Replying to someone from 2022.

[Anonymous]

NP. No ties to SLACs myself but I find the bizarre anti-SLAC obsessives on DCUM to be so strange. This is a post from 2022, presumably raised by one of you weirdos. Give it a rest. No matter how many threads you obsessively start to feed your obsession, some kids will still prefer SLACS.

[Anonymous]

Universities are like McDonald's or Applebee's or Cheesecake factory. Uniformly mediocre and everyone lnows.


LACs are like mom and pop restaurants. Some terrible, some fantastic, but you can't know until you go.

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Anonymous wrote:This is my kid. Ivy vs state flagship, sure pick ivy. But slac vs state flagship. Nope.

Both mine turned down UVA for top SLACs. Absolutely the right call for them. To each their own.

[Anonymous]

Large U's with daily Palestine marches not looking so great nowadays.

[Anonymous]

I have worked at multiple big name consulting firms and we prefer SLAC graduates over big universities including Ivies. SLAC kids tend to have better writing and communication/storytelling skills - not for every industry but certainly preferred in our line of work.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Why are kids even applying to SLACS then?

Colgate had something like 22000 applicants this year. A few years ago it was 9000.

Why are kids applying to 10+ schools period? They are casting a wide net.

They need to compare FA packages.

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Anonymous wrote:I have worked at multiple big name consulting firms and we prefer SLAC graduates over big universities including Ivies. SLAC kids tend to have better writing and communication/storytelling skills - not for every industry but certainly preferred in our line of work.

This is an interesting comment!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have worked at multiple big name consulting firms and we prefer SLAC graduates over big universities including Ivies. SLAC kids tend to have better writing and communication/storytelling skills - not for every industry but certainly preferred in our line of work.

This is an interesting comment!

It's probably also a fake comment made up by an LAC recruiter.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have worked at multiple big name consulting firms and we prefer SLAC graduates over big universities including Ivies. SLAC kids tend to have better writing and communication/storytelling skills - not for every industry but certainly preferred in our line of work.

So you prefer LAC kids over Ivy League graduates because the LAC kids are better bs artists. LAC kids are better bs artists because they lack hard skills as humanities majors.

The above post is total bs as anyone can view the school backgrounds of management consulting firms.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have worked at multiple big name consulting firms and we prefer SLAC graduates over big universities including Ivies. SLAC kids tend to have better writing and communication/storytelling skills - not for every industry but certainly preferred in our line of work.

That’s quite a limiting generalization. That you lack the self-awareness to see that would make me think less of your company. Probably a toxic environment.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have worked at multiple big name consulting firms and we prefer SLAC graduates over big universities including Ivies. SLAC kids tend to have better writing and communication/storytelling skills - not for every industry but certainly preferred in our line of work.

Cool story bro.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have worked at multiple big name consulting firms and we prefer SLAC graduates over big universities including Ivies. SLAC kids tend to have better writing and communication/storytelling skills - not for every industry but certainly preferred in our line of work.

So you prefer LAC kids over Ivy League graduates because the LAC kids are better bs artists. LAC kids are better bs artists because they lack hard skills as humanities majors.

The above post is total bs as anyone can view the school backgrounds of management consulting firms.

Ignorant much? SLACs offer degrees in CS, math, physics, chem, bio, econ, etc. Their graduates just have a much broader education than their counterparts. And, these students typically enjoy much closer relationships with their professors because the class sizes are limited to approx. 30 students.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have worked at multiple big name consulting firms and we prefer SLAC graduates over big universities including Ivies. SLAC kids tend to have better writing and communication/storytelling skills - not for every industry but certainly preferred in our line of work.

So you prefer LAC kids over Ivy League graduates because the LAC kids are better bs artists. LAC kids are better bs artists because they lack hard skills as humanities majors.

The above post is total bs as anyone can view the school backgrounds of management consulting firms.

Ignorant much? SLACs offer degrees in CS, math, physics, chem, bio, econ, etc. Their graduates just have a much broader education than their counterparts. And, these students typically enjoy much closer relationships with their professors because the class sizes are limited to approx. 30 students.

+1

But that PP to whom you're responding is just a knee-jerk SLAC-basher who keeps coming back to naysay any positive post about SLACs on this (old) thread. Like another person above, I'm puzzled by the need in some people to bash SLACs while talking up large universities, especially as those people seem to have little or no personal experience with SLACs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Regular Decision Yields (% of students admitted RD who choose to attend) of top 5 SLACs:

Pomona- 43.4%
Williams- 39%
Wellesley- 31.8%
Amherst- 29.7%
Swarthmore- 28.2%

Regular Decision Yields (% of students admitted RD who choose to attend) of selected top universities:

Dartmouth- 51.7%
Brown- 46.5%
Carnegie Mellon- 33.8%
Vanderbilt- 29.4%
Emory- 18.7%

So the Ivies do better but the yields are similar to other top 30 universities?

Is vandy’s yield really that low considering how much of a lifestyle brand it is?