CTCL schools

[Anonymous]

Embarrassed on behalf of the "CTCL" boosters. Just say you went to Denison or wherever. No one even knows what CTCL is.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:CTCL is not an actual consortium or conference. It’s an artificial grouping created by some random dude. People don’t have an issue with the schools themselves per se, just the utterly stupid name and the parents desperately clinging to that name. Just say you went to X college, and stop trying to make CTCL sound like an actual thing. We’re not going around calling universities FGTCU or CWYM or IVP or TT or NIL schools.

A nationally known author who was also the NYT ed editor is now some random dude? Such specious claims only further undermine your argument.

"Nationally known"? He was a successful writer and consultant in a very niche field. I'd give him the same amount of credibility as Edward Fiske, who wrote Fiske's Guide to Colleges. You don't see a FGTC nonprofit, though, or people bragging about how they went to a FGTC school.

"CTCL school" is also terribly thought out. It's either cutaneous t-cell lymphoma, or it's "I went to a Colleges That Change Lives school." -- absolute word gore.

But nobody except on forums for shorthand says "CTCL schools."

I mean, that's the whole point. that's why the people on DCUM who keep trying to hawk CTCL as if it's some established brand are plain weird and desperate.

The only person on this thread who seems to be breathing life into this term is you. Most everyone else appears to have used it when helping their children build realistic lists for colleges. If anything, the current lore after the last two years of admisssions is that kids need lists with more likelies than reaches, especially with many targets now morphing into reaches. There is nothing weird and desperate about using common sense.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Embarrassed on behalf of the "CTCL" boosters. Just say you went to Denison or wherever. No one even knows what CTCL is.

Please provide a cite of someone who has used that term.

[Anonymous]

CTCL parents are funny. Lol

[Anonymous]

CTCL is just a shorthand for a group of schools that may work well for certain types of students. It’s easier than listing them out, and most who use it don’t see it as an exclusive list. No one is taking the label literally. I have no idea why it engenders such vitriol from DCUM.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:CTCL parents are funny. Lol

Anti-CTCL posters are funny. Lol

[Anonymous]

I don’t know why there’s an Annapolis Group of liberal arts colleges, which includes the likes of Swarthmore, Pomona and Bowdoin. Seems like a marketing ploy to me.

https://www.annapolisgroup.org/

Same for the Coalition of Public Liberal Arts Colleges (http://coplac.org/), the Five Colleges of Ohio consortium (https://www.ohio5.org/), the Five College (Massachusetts) Consortium (https://www.fivecolleges.edu/) or the Oberlin Group (https://www.oberlingroup.org/).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don’t know why there’s an Annapolis Group of liberal arts colleges, which includes the likes of Swarthmore, Pomona and Bowdoin. Seems like a marketing ploy to me.

https://www.annapolisgroup.org/

Same for the Coalition of Public Liberal Arts Colleges (http://coplac.org/), the Five Colleges of Ohio consortium (https://www.ohio5.org/), the Five College (Massachusetts) Consortium (https://www.fivecolleges.edu/) or the Oberlin Group (https://www.oberlingroup.org/).

I'm sorry but I don't think you're making the point you're trying to make. These are legitimate school-led associations that make sense from a pedagogical and/or geographical standpoint, and convene school presidents and/or faculty. Most importantly, no one from Swat or Pomona or Bowdoin goes around saying they went to an Annapolis school, or desperately trying to promote the Annapolis grouping brandname.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Embarrassed on behalf of the "CTCL" boosters. Just say you went to Denison or wherever. No one even knows what CTCL is.

Please provide a cite of someone who has used that term.

Are you... are you serious? Check the title of this thread. Check the first page of this thread -- "We had a good experience with a CTCL school." "CTCL families tend to be secure."

A quick two-second search yields a separate thread devoted to CTCL schools. This person in a different thread even says they have a "CTCL BA". This kind of language is rampant on DCUM but no one in real life knows or cares what CTCL is.

It's all fair and well to promote or speak about your experiences at your small LAC, but for God's sakes just use the college name. Don't resort to strange branding ploys in an attempt to make it seem more special than it is.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Embarrassed on behalf of the "CTCL" boosters. Just say you went to Denison or wherever. No one even knows what CTCL is.

Please provide a cite of someone who has used that term.

Are you... are you serious? Check the title of this thread. Check the first page of this thread -- "We had a good experience with a CTCL school." "CTCL families tend to be secure."

A quick two-second search yields a separate thread devoted to CTCL schools. This person in a different thread even says they have a "CTCL BA". This kind of language is rampant on DCUM but no one in real life knows or cares what CTCL is.

It's all fair and well to promote or speak about your experiences at your small LAC, but for God's sakes just use the college name. Don't resort to strange branding ploys in an attempt to make it seem more special than it is.

I'm begging you to get some therapy.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Embarrassed on behalf of the "CTCL" boosters. Just say you went to Denison or wherever. No one even knows what CTCL is.

Please provide a cite of someone who has used that term.

Are you... are you serious? Check the title of this thread. Check the first page of this thread -- "We had a good experience with a CTCL school." "CTCL families tend to be secure."

A quick two-second search yields a separate thread devoted to CTCL schools. This person in a different thread even says they have a "CTCL BA". This kind of language is rampant on DCUM but no one in real life knows or cares what CTCL is.

It's all fair and well to promote or speak about your experiences at your small LAC, but for God's sakes just use the college name. Don't resort to strange branding ploys in an attempt to make it seem more special than it is.

I'm begging you to get some therapy.

Ah yes, get caught in your failed argument and resort to an ad hominem. Classic.

And I am begging you please take some remedial reading comprehension and/or logic and reasoning classes.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Embarrassed on behalf of the "CTCL" boosters. Just say you went to Denison or wherever. No one even knows what CTCL is.

Please provide a cite of someone who has used that term.

Are you... are you serious? Check the title of this thread. Check the first page of this thread -- "We had a good experience with a CTCL school." "CTCL families tend to be secure."

A quick two-second search yields a separate thread devoted to CTCL schools. This person in a different thread even says they have a "CTCL BA". This kind of language is rampant on DCUM but no one in real life knows or cares what CTCL is.

It's all fair and well to promote or speak about your experiences at your small LAC, but for God's sakes just use the college name. Don't resort to strange branding ploys in an attempt to make it seem more special than it is.

But people on DCUM do know what it means, and in the context of the thread you linked to, using the CTCL abbreviation was informative, wasn't it?:

CTCL BA, Ivy MPA - 125K until I had to step out of work force due to family needs
NESCAC BA, T15 law school - 900K + bonus (not a practicing attorney)

[Anonymous]

But didn't you (or someone who shares your psychopathology) start this thread? So who is obsessed with them?

If the "C" term is so disturbing to you, just don't click on threads that feature them in the name.

That way, only those of us who are mentally stable can venture ahead.

Maybe, in time, that path will bring you peace.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:But didn't you (or someone who shares your psychopathology) start this thread? So who is obsessed with them?

If the "C" term is so disturbing to you, just don't click on threads that feature them in the name.

That way, only those of us who are mentally stable can venture ahead.

Maybe, in time, that path will bring you peace.

Again with mistaking that there's only one person who thinks the CTCL branding attempt is silly. Newsflash: most everyone who's heard of the term but isn't affiliated thinks it's a little cringeworthy.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Embarrassed on behalf of the "CTCL" boosters. Just say you went to Denison or wherever. No one even knows what CTCL is.

Please provide a cite of someone who has used that term.

Are you... are you serious? Check the title of this thread. Check the first page of this thread -- "We had a good experience with a CTCL school." "CTCL families tend to be secure."

A quick two-second search yields a separate thread devoted to CTCL schools. This person in a different thread even says they have a "CTCL BA". This kind of language is rampant on DCUM but no one in real life knows or cares what CTCL is.

It's all fair and well to promote or speak about your experiences at your small LAC, but for God's sakes just use the college name. Don't resort to strange branding ploys in an attempt to make it seem more special than it is.

But people on DCUM do know what it means, and in the context of the thread you linked to, using the CTCL abbreviation was informative, wasn't it?:

CTCL BA, Ivy MPA - 125K until I had to step out of work force due to family needs
NESCAC BA, T15 law school - 900K + bonus (not a practicing attorney)

No, it would have been equally (if not moreso) informative to say that they went to a liberal arts college. Just say that. Enough with this nonsense.