The students who get into top SLACs and top universities don't seem to be picking the former

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Anonymous wrote:I have worked at multiple big name consulting firms and we prefer SLAC graduates over big universities including Ivies. SLAC kids tend to have better writing and communication/storytelling skills - not for every industry but certainly preferred in our line of work.

So you prefer LAC kids over Ivy League graduates because the LAC kids are better bs artists. LAC kids are better bs artists because they lack hard skills as humanities majors.

The above post is total bs as anyone can view the school backgrounds of management consulting firms.

Ignorant much? SLACs offer degrees in CS, math, physics, chem, bio, econ, etc. Their graduates just have a much broader education than their counterparts. And, these students typically enjoy much closer relationships with their professors because the class sizes are limited to approx. 30 students.

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But that PP to whom you're responding is just a knee-jerk SLAC-basher who keeps coming back to naysay any positive post about SLACs on this (old) thread. Like another person above, I'm puzzled by the need in some people to bash SLACs while talking up large universities, especially as those people seem to have little or no personal experience with SLACs.

I am the PP you referenced. The thing is that the anti-SLAC obsessives don’t realize that they sound so weird that their comments have the opposite impact than they intend. I had no ties to SLACs before I started reading DCUM; I went to HYPS and large state schools myself, as did my spouse and siblings.

But now I think very positively of them. Thanks to the weirdo comments over the past several years, I started looking at them much more closely for my own kids. I’ve now reached the point where I would be delighted if they decided to attend a SLAC. So thanks, I guess, to the DCUM anti-SLAC weirdos?

Give it a rest and get a life. You are not an Ivy graduate.

You people are so weird. So very, very weird.

They are weird and have issues. I'm a top ivy grad (law) and SLAC grad. DH is also SLAC but hated it. I'm very pro-SLAC providing you don't want to go into high tech. Some aspects of STEM are not handled well by slacs. Mine pretends to offer computer science but all it offers is a 3/2 program with a local tech school . . . and very very few students take advantage of it. If you want liberal arts and want to learn to read and write then a SLAC is for you.

But my kids did not pick slacs! They both went in-state VA

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Anonymous wrote:Regular Decision Yields (% of students admitted RD who choose to attend) of top 5 SLACs:

Pomona- 43.4%
Williams- 39%
Wellesley- 31.8%
Amherst- 29.7%
Swarthmore- 28.2%

Regular Decision Yields (% of students admitted RD who choose to attend) of selected top universities:

Dartmouth- 51.7%
Brown- 46.5%
Carnegie Mellon- 33.8%
Vanderbilt- 29.4%
Emory- 18.7%

So the Ivies do better but the yields are similar to other top 30 universities?

These are all excellent schools.

None of them are perfect and they are all quite expensive.

Comparing RD yields is a strange way to compare SLACs to your other list.

Congrats to anyone who has a child attending any of these schools.

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Anonymous wrote:I have worked at multiple big name consulting firms and we prefer SLAC graduates over big universities including Ivies. SLAC kids tend to have better writing and communication/storytelling skills - not for every industry but certainly preferred in our line of work.

So you prefer LAC kids over Ivy League graduates because the LAC kids are better bs artists. LAC kids are better bs artists because they lack hard skills as humanities majors.

The above post is total bs as anyone can view the school backgrounds of management consulting firms.

Ignorant much? SLACs offer degrees in CS, math, physics, chem, bio, econ, etc. Their graduates just have a much broader education than their counterparts. And, these students typically enjoy much closer relationships with their professors because the class sizes are limited to approx. 30 students.

+1

But that PP to whom you're responding is just a knee-jerk SLAC-basher who keeps coming back to naysay any positive post about SLACs on this (old) thread. Like another person above, I'm puzzled by the need in some people to bash SLACs while talking up large universities, especially as those people seem to have little or no personal experience with SLACs.

I am the PP you referenced. The thing is that the anti-SLAC obsessives don’t realize that they sound so weird that their comments have the opposite impact than they intend. I had no ties to SLACs before I started reading DCUM; I went to HYPS and large state schools myself, as did my spouse and siblings.

But now I think very positively of them. Thanks to the weirdo comments over the past several years, I started looking at them much more closely for my own kids. I’ve now reached the point where I would be delighted if they decided to attend a SLAC. So thanks, I guess, to the DCUM anti-SLAC weirdos?

Give it a rest and get a life. You are not an Ivy graduate.

You people are so weird. So very, very weird.

They are weird and have issues. I'm a top ivy grad (law) and SLAC grad. DH is also SLAC but hated it. I'm very pro-SLAC providing you don't want to go into high tech. Some aspects of STEM are not handled well by slacs. Mine pretends to offer computer science but all it offers is a 3/2 program with a local tech school . . . and very very few students take advantage of it. If you want liberal arts and want to learn to read and write then a SLAC is for you.

But my kids did not pick slacs! They both went in-state VA

I work in high tech and you are wrong about not going into high tech. There are a ton of SLAC grads in high tech.