Why are WASP so elite?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:^flawed logic. More diverse non white Anglo Saxon Protestants are not automatically going to non diverse small schools in communities with no diversity whatsoever.

The CCP does not equate diversity.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Perhaps they don't want to give out Ivy-tier signaling.

Most of these second tier LACs are where wealthy Americans would send their kids generation after generation. They care about education quality, kids get great education at these places but at the same time is not cutthroat.

The kids will go to great med schools law schools and PhD after graduation, and become good doctors, lawyers, and scholars. Quietly raise their next generation of kids.

Then repeat the cycle.

Immigrant parents don't care about these schools. American wealthy don't want them to care either.

If one were to consider these for their high-stats Caucasian child, would it be a safe assumption there are fewer Asians at these schools than others?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Of course Bowdoin is tier 1. It’s ranked 5th by US News and has a 7% acceptance rate.

With NYC major and netflix founder, Bowdoin deserves a spot in tier 1.

[Anonymous]

2025 numbers Bowdoin 1800 kids endowment $2.9 billion. Middlebury 2800 kids endowment 1.5 billion last reported 2023. Midd is clearly not in the same neighborhood. Try as their boosters might.

[Anonymous]

This entire thread and all the defensive boosters are ... embarrassing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Perhaps they don't want to give out Ivy-tier signaling.

Most of these second tier LACs are where wealthy Americans would send their kids generation after generation. They care about education quality, kids get great education at these places but at the same time is not cutthroat.

The kids will go to great med schools law schools and PhD after graduation, and become good doctors, lawyers, and scholars. Quietly raise their next generation of kids.

Then repeat the cycle.

Immigrant parents don't care about these schools. American wealthy don't want them to care either.

If one were to consider these for their high-stats Caucasian child, would it be a safe assumption there are fewer Asians at these schools than others?

If so, that's only because children of Asian immigrant parents have not typically been steered toward these schools. I think that's changing though. SLACs might still not be their first choice but they might consider them if their kids don't get into a T-10 school. Post SC decision, it seems clear the Asian demographic at elite schools has gone up. My WASP kid has plenty of Asian classmates.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Of course Bowdoin is tier 1. It’s ranked 5th by US News and has a 7% acceptance rate.

And higher yield than any other WASP. Great endowment. Noticeable drop off after Bowdoin. Hence WASP-B.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Just because a trend occurs does not mean it will last, it is real, or the right thing to follow.
NESCACs have had and will continue to have a captive audience of students regardless of shrill rage baiting and daft commentary. Choate, Hotchkiss, Taft, etc who have adopted to the decline of the White Anglos Saxon will continually send their new diverse pool of students to the same schools they have for the last 100 years. Those same pool of students will attend elite graduate schools in the Ivys, run trading desks at major investment banks, summer in the Hamptons, and sustain the I-95 corridor between NYC and Boston. The next generation of their family will do the same, while chipped shouldered insecure fools will be chasing the next hot thing. It is hard to admit when you are stupid but those of us who have done this and have kids doing the same welcome your idiocy.

So you have admitted you are stupid. I agree.

[Anonymous]

Significant drop off after Bowdoin among NESCACs. Middlebury is a pauper compared to Amherst, Williams, and Bowdoin. Times change and Colby might also soon pass Midd and definitely Hamilton.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Of course Bowdoin is tier 1. It’s ranked 5th by US News and has a 7% acceptance rate.

And higher yield than any other WASP. Great endowment. Noticeable drop off after Bowdoin. Hence WASP-B.

My only qualm here is that Bowdoin's current popularity is driven primarily by student interest in good dorms and good food, not academics per se. I'm not sure the outcomes are quite on par with the more long-standing tier 1 schools. Its probably too soon to tell.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Perhaps they don't want to give out Ivy-tier signaling.

Most of these second tier LACs are where wealthy Americans would send their kids generation after generation. They care about education quality, kids get great education at these places but at the same time is not cutthroat.

The kids will go to great med schools law schools and PhD after graduation, and become good doctors, lawyers, and scholars. Quietly raise their next generation of kids.

Then repeat the cycle.

Immigrant parents don't care about these schools. American wealthy don't want them to care either.

If one were to consider these for their high-stats Caucasian child, would it be a safe assumption there are fewer Asians at these schools than others?

the two into Williams ED from our NYC private are asian girls.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Significant drop off after Bowdoin among NESCACs. Middlebury is a pauper compared to Amherst, Williams, and Bowdoin. Times change and Colby might also soon pass Midd and definitely Hamilton.

Keep deluding yourself. Until Colby publishes a CDS, no one will take it seriously.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Perhaps they don't want to give out Ivy-tier signaling.

Most of these second tier LACs are where wealthy Americans would send their kids generation after generation. They care about education quality, kids get great education at these places but at the same time is not cutthroat.

The kids will go to great med schools law schools and PhD after graduation, and become good doctors, lawyers, and scholars. Quietly raise their next generation of kids.

Then repeat the cycle.

Immigrant parents don't care about these schools. American wealthy don't want them to care either.

If one were to consider these for their high-stats Caucasian child, would it be a safe assumption there are fewer Asians at these schools than others?

If so, that's only because children of Asian immigrant parents have not typically been steered toward these schools. I think that's changing though. SLACs might still not be their first choice but they might consider them if their kids don't get into a T-10 school. Post SC decision, it seems clear the Asian demographic at elite schools has gone up. My WASP kid has plenty of Asian classmates.

My guess is that there are Wasian kids there.
And the true Asian kids now will send their next generation Wasians back.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Significant drop off after Bowdoin among NESCACs. Middlebury is a pauper compared to Amherst, Williams, and Bowdoin. Times change and Colby might also soon pass Midd and definitely Hamilton.

"Pauper." Tell us you're bitter without telling us you're bitter.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Of course Bowdoin is tier 1. It’s ranked 5th by US News and has a 7% acceptance rate.

And higher yield than any other WASP. Great endowment. Noticeable drop off after Bowdoin. Hence WASP-B.

WASP-B! WASP-B! WASP-B!!!! LISTEN TO ME GUYS!

--Bowdoin alum