High academic SLAC with school spirit?

[Anonymous]

Are there low/poor academic "SLACs"?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Are there low/poor academic "SLACs"?

There is always a college willing to take your money, and SLACs are no exception. They are generally very expensive. Some offer merit, but you're often (not always) talking about wealthy, mostly white students and not too diverse. Some schools are more cliquish than others. You probably need to tour with your child and hope to get a sense of the environment.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Are there low/poor academic "SLACs"?

Have you not read all the threads about CTCLs?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Are there low/poor academic "SLACs"?

There is always a college willing to take your money, and SLACs are no exception. They are generally very expensive. Some offer merit, but you're often (not always) talking about wealthy, mostly white students and not too diverse. Some schools are more cliquish than others. You probably need to tour with your child and hope to get a sense of the environment.

Wouldn't they just be LACs not SLACs?

[Anonymous]

Lehigh

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Lehigh

Not a SLAC.

[Anonymous]

Washington and Lee
Davidson

[Anonymous]

Holy Cross

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Are there low/poor academic "SLACs"?

There is always a college willing to take your money, and SLACs are no exception. They are generally very expensive. Some offer merit, but you're often (not always) talking about wealthy, mostly white students and not too diverse. Some schools are more cliquish than others. You probably need to tour with your child and hope to get a sense of the environment.

Wouldn't they just be LACs not SLACs?

The acronym SLAC can be interpreted either as "selective liberal arts college" or "small liberal arts college" so the meaning is not all that clear in these postings.

[Anonymous]

I just realized that I don't consider the Catholic schools to be SLACs. They seem to be a group onto themselves. I think of SLACs as having WASP roots.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Are there low/poor academic "SLACs"?

Tonnnnnnnnns

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Davidson and Colgate both D1 SLACs with strong school spirit and academics.

+2

[Anonymous]

She should definitely check out Davidson which seems on the surface to be a great fit!

At the NCAA tournament bb game against Michigan State, about 400 very boisterous Davidson students were in attendance -- impressive when Davidson only has about 1800 students on campus (w/another 100+ studying abroad) and the game took place in the midst of their Spring Break.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:She should definitely check out Davidson which seems on the surface to be a great fit!

At the NCAA tournament bb game against Michigan State, about 400 very boisterous Davidson students were in attendance -- impressive when Davidson only has about 1800 students on campus (w/another 100+ studying abroad) and the game took place in the midst of their Spring Break.

Funny you should write this as my DC (student at Davidson) drove with their roommate to the game in SC and then back to their spring break beach rental in NC immediately after that game that ended at about midnight. I was a nervous mom!

But, yes, there is a lot of spirit at Davidson. Last week my DC sent me video from an outside basketball game between the women's and men's basketball team(one team) against the stand-up comedy club members (the other team). It was really funny and reflective of their campus culture.

[Anonymous]

dartmouth, williams, bowdoin