Are NESCAC schools primarily for white private school kids?

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Colby has 20% students of color, 11% international students, and 12% first generation students.

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Anonymous wrote:Any have a smart but nice vibe?

Bates. Or at least they did when I went there, zillions of years ago.

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My DS was accepted into 2 Nescac schools. He attended a public HS in PA. BTW, he decided to attend another school.

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Anonymous wrote:Any have a smart but nice vibe?

I went to a NESCAC school and have nephews at 2 others, plus know lots of friends of my own kids who are at NESCAC schools. "Smart, but nice" describes most of these schools. The kids tend to be bright and motivated, but not elbows-out strivers. It's hard to be a jerk or poser when you know most people on campus and they know you.

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Anonymous wrote:Colby has 20% students of color, 11% international students, and 12% first generation students.

This makes it more interesting...

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It's a sports league. Not sure grouping colleges that way is very useful.

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Anonymous wrote:It's a sports league. Not sure grouping colleges that way is very useful.

The Nescac schools are pretty similar (size, quality of faculty, student profile) so the grouping is probably appropriate. Tufts is pretty much the only outlier. The rest are liberal arts colleges that are most selective and highly selective schools.

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Bates has a long history of diversity

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Anonymous wrote:It's a sports league. Not sure grouping colleges that way is very useful.

nescac's as a group have more in common with each other than ivies, which wildly differ from each other.

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Anonymous wrote:While I can look up the data on diversity, when I visited, it felt like the setting of a Vineyard Vines look book shoot.

I have a son who is looking at colleges. Amherst seems to be the exception, or at least the most diverse of the NESCAC schools. They have a higher than usual number of American minorities and take and offer aid to what seems to me to be a large number of international students. Amherst, Harvard, Yale are among a small handful of schools that have needs-blind admissions for international students.

I know an AA girl from a big x that got a full ride to Amherst a few years back.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's a sports league. Not sure grouping colleges that way is very useful.

nescac's as a group have more in common with each other than ivies, which wildly differ from each other.

+1

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Do the NESCAC's 'sandbag' asians as much as the ivies do?

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's a sports league. Not sure grouping colleges that way is very useful.

nescac's as a group have more in common with each other than ivies, which wildly differ from each other.

For any given school in that group, there are other schools, not in the same sports league, that they are more similar to. It's not whether the schools share any characteristics -- it's that it makes no sense to compare them only within that group. It's artificially limiting.

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Anonymous wrote:Colby has 20% students of color, 11% international students, and 12% first generation students.

I bet there is significant overlap there.

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Anonymous wrote:Colby has 20% students of color, 11% international students, and 12% first generation students.

I bet there is significant overlap there.

A good number of the international students are from Asia and Africa and some of the first generation students are students of color so of course there's overlap. Among the first generation students are white kids from Maine too. Colby students hail from 44 states and 75 countries.