WASP a fraud? The true top LACs?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Responding to this post on the Wellesley thread
“such an underrated point. There’s so many better outcome LACs than WASP, but they get all the cache for whatever reason. People are too obsessed with acceptance rates to understand the quality of the non-WASP LACs, so all the other schools get dunked on. For some reason, people here love Davidson though.”

Are the WASP schools one big sham?! Should we be looking at a different group of top lacs, based on outcomes, not “prestige,” whatever that means?

Should you be starting another thread?

Yes, a thread with a better outcome, even if it's less prestigious.

Sure

West Point
Harvey Mudd
Annapolis
Middlebury

WHAM

You're welcome.

Service academies should be excluded from ANY SLAC ranking. Period.

That's it. 🙂

[Anonymous]

Kids are flocking to southern schools, rankings be damned. The sooner that northern elite colleges figure this out and make changes, the better off they'll be.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I mean, the Ivy Leagues have had a long run. These days? Overweened hysteria-ridden liberal fringe ideas, for no reason except for the sake of presenting new and novel ideas. Hey, let's confuse today's youth about their sexuality, and let's get the media on-board! End result 40% (I don't know the actual numbers but know it's significant) of adolescent girls, understandably questioning changes happening to their bodies and lives, now think they are gender fluid or trans or whatever the media is screaming about. Definitely, some of them are fluid or trans, and that's fine. But a percentage such as 40% ? Get out of town.

This is why the Ivy Leagues are losing their cachet. They're living la vida loca in an imaginary playground in their minds.

This comment has 1% to do with the Ivy League 90% your weird hatred of trans people (1% of the population) and 9% just incoherent rambling.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Kids are flocking to southern schools, rankings be damned. The sooner that northern elite colleges figure this out and make changes, the better off they'll be.

What changes do you want to see? The northern LACs get more applications than the southern ones.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Responding to this post on the Wellesley thread
“such an underrated point. There’s so many better outcome LACs than WASP, but they get all the cache for whatever reason. People are too obsessed with acceptance rates to understand the quality of the non-WASP LACs, so all the other schools get dunked on. For some reason, people here love Davidson though.”

Are the WASP schools one big sham?! Should we be looking at a different group of top lacs, based on outcomes, not “prestige,” whatever that means?

I mean, you could say that about so many schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Responding to this post on the Wellesley thread
“such an underrated point. There’s so many better outcome LACs than WASP, but they get all the cache for whatever reason. People are too obsessed with acceptance rates to understand the quality of the non-WASP LACs, so all the other schools get dunked on. For some reason, people here love Davidson though.”

Are the WASP schools one big sham?! Should we be looking at a different group of top lacs, based on outcomes, not “prestige,” whatever that means?

I mean, you could say that about so many schools.

Those schools aren’t at the top of rankings. Princeton, Harvard, Stanford have better outcomes than 99% of lesser schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Kids are flocking to southern schools, rankings be damned. The sooner that northern elite colleges figure this out and make changes, the better off they'll be.

Generally because they cannot get into the better schools which are up north.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Kids are flocking to southern schools, rankings be damned. The sooner that northern elite colleges figure this out and make changes, the better off they'll be.

Generally because they cannot get into the better schools which are up north.

Seriously. No kid with a brain is going to sewanee or furman over Williams. The only LAC worth its salt in the south is W&L and even it’s…mediocre. Davidson is fine, but irs for students who think Charlotte is an exciting place, not exactly elite.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Responding to this post on the Wellesley thread
“such an underrated point. There’s so many better outcome LACs than WASP, but they get all the cache for whatever reason. People are too obsessed with acceptance rates to understand the quality of the non-WASP LACs, so all the other schools get dunked on. For some reason, people here love Davidson though.”

Are the WASP schools one big sham?! Should we be looking at a different group of top lacs, based on outcomes, not “prestige,” whatever that means?

Should you be starting another thread?

Yes, a thread with a better outcome, even if it's less prestigious.

Sure

West Point
Harvey Mudd
Annapolis
Middlebury

WHAM

You're welcome.

Last Christmas, I applied to schools
But the very next day
They said “no way”
This year, to save me from tears
I’ll apply to a few safeties

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you're judging by outcomes, which IMO is the most important metric, Bucknell is hard to beat. Not only is the degree itself highly respected on The Street and in consulting circles, but the alumni network is rabid to the point they'd chew through a barbed wire fence to help you get ahead. Even WASP doesn't engender that level of loyalty.

Bucknell is not in the top 5 for lac outcomes. Cute idea though.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Outcomes based rank would look something like
1. Harvey Mudd
2. Claremont McKenna
3. Williams
4. Colgate
5. W&L

HCWCW doesn’t roll off the tongue too easy.

lol
I would also add Bowdoin and the Naval Academy

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Responding to this post on the Wellesley thread
“such an underrated point. There’s so many better outcome LACs than WASP, but they get all the cache for whatever reason. People are too obsessed with acceptance rates to understand the quality of the non-WASP LACs, so all the other schools get dunked on. For some reason, people here love Davidson though.”

Are the WASP schools one big sham?! Should we be looking at a different group of top lacs, based on outcomes, not “prestige,” whatever that means?

Should you be starting another thread?

Yes, a thread with a better outcome, even if it's less prestigious.

Sure

West Point
Harvey Mudd
Annapolis
Middlebury

WHAM

You're welcome.

Last Christmas, I applied to schools
But the very next day
They said “no way”
This year, to save me from tears
I’ll apply to a few safeties

Lol

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you're judging by outcomes, which IMO is the most important metric, Bucknell is hard to beat. Not only is the degree itself highly respected on The Street and in consulting circles, but the alumni network is rabid to the point they'd chew through a barbed wire fence to help you get ahead. Even WASP doesn't engender that level of loyalty.

Bucknell is not in the top 5 for lac outcomes. Cute idea though.

We are seriously considering it. DCUM gets savage about Bucknell but it's got a great engineering program.
Our DC is super smart but a state flagship "sink or swim" engineering program may not be the right fit. The Bucknell engineering program seems like has a more nurturing and supportive community. Maybe that is what the LACs are know for. We've been impressed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you're judging by outcomes, which IMO is the most important metric, Bucknell is hard to beat. Not only is the degree itself highly respected on The Street and in consulting circles, but the alumni network is rabid to the point they'd chew through a barbed wire fence to help you get ahead. Even WASP doesn't engender that level of loyalty.

Bucknell is not in the top 5 for lac outcomes. Cute idea though.

We are seriously considering it. DCUM gets savage about Bucknell but it's got a great engineering program.
Our DC is super smart but a state flagship "sink or swim" engineering program may not be the right fit. The Bucknell engineering program seems like has a more nurturing and supportive community. Maybe that is what the LACs are know for. We've been impressed.

Yeah it’s a good school, no doubt. Just not a top 5.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you're judging by outcomes, which IMO is the most important metric, Bucknell is hard to beat. Not only is the degree itself highly respected on The Street and in consulting circles, but the alumni network is rabid to the point they'd chew through a barbed wire fence to help you get ahead. Even WASP doesn't engender that level of loyalty.

Bucknell is not in the top 5 for lac outcomes. Cute idea though.

We are seriously considering it. DCUM gets savage about Bucknell but it's got a great engineering program.
Our DC is super smart but a state flagship "sink or swim" engineering program may not be the right fit. The Bucknell engineering program seems like has a more nurturing and supportive community. Maybe that is what the LACs are know for. We've been impressed.

Yeah it’s a good school, no doubt. Just not a top 5.

Agreed. For sure!!