Why are WASP so elite?

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Anonymous wrote:Middlebury is good at producing foreign language teachers.

And heads of major investment banks, Supreme Court clerks, prominent lawyers, actors, journalists.

[Anonymous]

Whoever keeps posting these WASP threads needs help. If you or your kids attend one of these schools, do you really need this much attention or to debate rankings daily?

Frankly, there are some SLACs outside the NE that are well-ranked and not constantly debating their relevance. That environment sounds more interesting and self-confident than this constant NE hyper-competitive drivel.

[Anonymous]

OP doesn't even define WASP in her original post, and I have no idea what it means to her, since to me it means White Anglo-Saxon Protestant.

[Anonymous]

The Midd Supreme Court clerks probably fetch coffee for Holy Cross grad Clarence Thomas.😃

[Anonymous]

Many would choose PAWS over at least 1 ivy.

It's harder to choose a one-tier down LACs over an ivy. I've never heard of anyone choose middlebury over cornell.

Wellesley maybe one exception due to single sex status. Some girls do prefer Wellesley.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The Midd Supreme Court clerks probably fetch coffee for Holy Cross grad Clarence Thomas.😃

Most Middlebury graduates have the common sense to not associate with people like Clarence Thomas. Associating with a known grifter isn't good for their banking careers.

[Anonymous]

Midd bankers couldn’t make change for a fifty.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Whoever keeps posting these WASP threads needs help. If you or your kids attend one of these schools, do you really need this much attention or to debate rankings daily?

Frankly, there are some SLACs outside the NE that are well-ranked and not constantly debating their relevance. That environment sounds more interesting and self-confident than this constant NE hyper-competitive drivel.

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The WASP/SLACs posters are navel-gazers. So insecure.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The hate on LACs I think is a reaction the ever-increasing want of a pre-professional college with a pre-professional major that has a moderate to well paying career waiting for their child at graduation. And while I understand that in economic times like these that ROI can be #1 on priorities for a college, I don’t believe in the bashing of LACs and the notion of “it’s a small college who cares?”

Contrary to popular belief some people don’t want a pre-professional education or are worried about ROI. And that’s okay. I think it’s perfectly reasonable to care about ROI but I also agree that education is important and what may work for others might not work for someone.

If your kid doesn’t like a small college in a rural area: that’s okay! It’s not for everyone. I rarely see LAC parents evangelizing LACs like I do university parents when an LAC is even mentioned. It boggles my mind that people get so worked up over a college that a stranger’s child goes to. Our kids are all getting an education. End of story.

Is the bolded a serious comment? Have you seen the inordinate number of threads doing just that - "evangelizing LACs"? It's so tiresome and boring.
DP

[Anonymous]

Perhaps they don't want to give out Ivy-tier signaling.

Most of these second tier LACs are where wealthy Americans would send their kids generation after generation. They care about education quality, kids get great education at these places but at the same time is not cutthroat.

The kids will go to great med schools law schools and PhD after graduation, and become good doctors, lawyers, and scholars. Quietly raise their next generation of kids.

Then repeat the cycle.

Immigrant parents don't care about these schools. American wealthy don't want them to care either.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Perhaps they don't want to give out Ivy-tier signaling.

Most of these second tier LACs are where wealthy Americans would send their kids generation after generation. They care about education quality, kids get great education at these places but at the same time is not cutthroat.

The kids will go to great med schools law schools and PhD after graduation, and become good doctors, lawyers, and scholars. Quietly raise their next generation of kids.

Then repeat the cycle.

Immigrant parents don't care about these schools. American wealthy don't want them to care either.

I agree with this as a Wellesley grad. Quality of education is important and friends chose Wellesley over schools like Duke, Cornell, etc. It's a self selecting group. There is no need to try to rank LACs next to universities. It's a completely different experience. Friends and roommates were off to Harvard med, Yale med, Hopkins med, and all the top law schools + Wall Street. I don't know what placement is like now... I hope it is still going strong. DC is headed to HYPS, but I would've been equally thrilled if it was WASP.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Perhaps they don't want to give out Ivy-tier signaling.

Most of these second tier LACs are where wealthy Americans would send their kids generation after generation. They care about education quality, kids get great education at these places but at the same time is not cutthroat.

The kids will go to great med schools law schools and PhD after graduation, and become good doctors, lawyers, and scholars. Quietly raise their next generation of kids.

Then repeat the cycle.

Immigrant parents don't care about these schools. American wealthy don't want them to care either.

This is absolutely correct.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Perhaps they don't want to give out Ivy-tier signaling.

Most of these second tier LACs are where wealthy Americans would send their kids generation after generation. They care about education quality, kids get great education at these places but at the same time is not cutthroat.

The kids will go to great med schools law schools and PhD after graduation, and become good doctors, lawyers, and scholars. Quietly raise their next generation of kids.

Then repeat the cycle.

Immigrant parents don't care about these schools. American wealthy don't want them to care either.

Spot on except for the second tier part. They aren’t second tier at all, they are just quiet and understated. The NESCAC schools for example do not talk about rankings by agreement. And, they do not talk about the fact that they do not talk about rankings.

It is a case of IYKYK.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Whoever keeps posting these WASP threads needs help. If you or your kids attend one of these schools, do you really need this much attention or to debate rankings daily?

Frankly, there are some SLACs outside the NE that are well-ranked and not constantly debating their relevance. That environment sounds more interesting and self-confident than this constant NE hyper-competitive drivel.

+1
The WASP/SLACs posters are navel-gazers. So insecure.

Pretty sure that the insecure ones are those desperately arguing about the Ivies. People just aren’t putting up with their nonsense.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Many would choose PAWS over at least 1 ivy.

It's harder to choose a one-tier down LACs over an ivy. I've never heard of anyone choose middlebury over cornell.

Wellesley maybe one exception due to single sex status. Some girls do prefer Wellesley.

PAWS is as bad as WASP-B. Another non existent acronym driven by insecurity.