Any Parents Privately Disappointed with College Placement?
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Anonymous
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From CollegeBoard.com. Also SAT's at Davidson are higher for incoming freshman. Davidson is also a little bigger. By reputation, Davidson is stronger too. My kid is interested in both schools.
Davidson 82% in top 10th of graduating class 97% in top quarter of graduating class 100% in top half of graduating class 78% had h.s. GPA of 3.75 and higher 15% had h.s. GPA between 3.5 and 3.74 6% had h.s. GPA between 3.25 and 3.49 1% had h.s. GPA between 3.0 and 3.24 Sewanee 43% in top 10th of graduating class 67% in top quarter of graduating class 88% in top half of graduating class 38% had h.s. GPA of 3.75 and higher 22% had h.s. GPA between 3.5 and 3.74 16% had h.s. GPA between 3.25 and 3.49 14% had h.s. GPA between 3.0 and 3.24 9% had h.s. GPA between 2.5 and 2.99 1% had h.s. GPA between 2.0 and 2.49 |
Anonymous
| Davidson is one of those schools that a lot of bright kids from this area go to when they don't get into an Ivy, a Duke, a Georgetown, a UVA, etc. Sewanee is on a tier or two lower than Davidson and not a lot of kids from this area know of it. |
Anonymous
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13:03 here. I actually agree that Davidson is more academically selective than Sewanee. I would put Davidson in the same tier as Carleton and Pomona. However, this doesn't mean that Sewanee is a bad school--far from it. Many of my colleagues, myself included, regard it as a fine school.
Also consider Rhodes College, btw. |
Anonymous
| The people I know who went to Davidson chose it over UVa, etc. It's an entirely different experience. Is it conceivable to you that someone might choose Amherst over Penn or Yale? Davidson, Rhodes and Sewanee (although I agree that Davidson is more "prestigious") are considered the Southern equivalents of Amherst, Williams, etc. |
Anonymous
| My husband went to Sweanee. I went to Brown. I think he got the better education. |
Anonymous
| If one go to Rhodes College, does that make her a Rhodes Scholar? |
Anonymous
| where does middlebury fit in compared to an Amherst and Williams, Davidson. Its in Vermont. |
Anonymous
Apples and oranges. Davidson is no Amherst...so don't make up arguments.
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Anonymous
Said the angry, drunk Amherst grad |
Anonymous
| Rhodes has gotten a lot of mileage out of renaming itself. I was a bit taken aback this past admissions season when I noticed in printed marketing materials (viewbook, etc.) that the head of WIS claims to have graduated from Rhodes. Surely he did not. At his age, he must have graduated from Southwestern at Memphis. I thought it deceptive--and made me wonder what else might be being misrepresented. |
Anonymous
| That's hysterical it was renamed to Rhodes. |
Anonymous
Interesting . . . I'm a Yankee, so I happen to know more Brown grads than Sewanee grads, but the few folks I know who went to Sewanee tends toward that same granola-crunchy variety of prep that many Brown grads exhibit. Anyone know whether Sewanee still publishes its highly regarded literary journal? BTW, folks, do you know there's a whole college forum on this site? Jeff started it a while back, and, sadly, it's been a little neglected. But it might help us all to cultivate it a bit. Seens like an excellent opportunity to exchange info -- as long as we don't get into all that public school v. private school divisiveness. (Not to mention north v. south, working mom v. SAHM, urban v. suburban, etc. . . . ) |
Anonymous
I think Middlebury is a great school. If you are asking about the "prestige" scale my perception is that it's a notch below Amherst and Williams and maybe comparable to Davidson (but I grew up in NE so my perspective might be skewed). |
Anonymous
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Middlebury has apparently moved up in the world.
Middlebury 87% in top 10th of graduating class 94% in top quarter of graduating class 100% in top half of graduating class Amherst 79% in top 10th of graduating class 95% in top quarter of graduating class 99% in top half of graduating class |
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Wiliams
88% in top 10th of graduating class 99% in top quarter of graduating class 100% in top half of graduating class |