College comparisons

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What about Ivy/LAC comparisons? I'd go:

Harvard : Williams
Yale : Amherst
Princeton : Pomona
Columbia : Swarthmore
Penn : Colgate
Dartmouth : Bucknell
Brown : Wesleyan
Cornell : Bowdoin

(Not sure about the last one. Had trouble finding a suitable analogue for Cornell.)

Pretty off.
Harvard: Williams (personalities)
Brown: Amherst (open curriculum)
Yale: Pomona (residential college hype | college consortium hype)
Dartmouth: Bowdoin
Penn: Middlebury
Princeton: Swarthmore
Columbia: Barnard//Wellesley
Cornell: DNE, takes pride in being a public/private, larger institution.

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Anonymous wrote:Be kind to Emory. Just doing its own thing down in Atlanta, occupying its own niche, away from the northeast corridor craziness. Same goes for Tulane. It occupies its own niche.

Tulane and Emory get more attention now because they are in the south. While they aren't academically elite like the northeast colleges they attract good enough students. The question is if it is worth it over the much cheaper state schools. Emory in particular has to compete with UGA for top Georgia students. That is pretty amazing considering how fast the trajectory of UGA has risen due to the Hope/Zell scholarship. So value conscious parents don't need to pay for an expensive private school where the outcomes won't differ.

There will always be some market for expensive, lower tier private schools just because some will want that experience. Since there are so few private schools like that in the south Tulane and Emory get a lot of attention.

Emory has been made up of mostly NE students for over 50 years now, you don't know what you're talking about. And Emory and Tulane aren't peers never will be. And it's not just because of US News even though that's part of it. Emorys peers are and always have been WashU, Vandy, Georgetown, ND, Rice and a few others. I can't figure out what some on this board have against Emory but, your children aren't getting into the school regardless.

+100, could never get in, but have so much to say about it. How did this even start?

What drugs are you on? With a 32 percent ED1 acceptance rate, lots of kids are getting in Emory who are very smart but not too top of the class, It isn’t nearly as hard to get into Emory as those schools you like to think of as its peers.

Right? There are approximately zero people attending Emory at the moment who also got into Vandy with the same merit/no merit but chose Emory over Vandy.

Probably Georgetown as well, unless the applicant is 110% pre-med

It's starting to look like mental illness. Parchment says 30% of Emory and Vandy acceptees choose Emory, but only 10% of all Emory students receive merit scholarships. So how does your scenario work? For Georgetown it's 50/50. Your hate for Emory is weird at this point.
https://www.parchment.com/c/college/tools/college-cross-admit-comparison.php?compare=Georgetown+University&with=Emory+University

https://www.parchment.com/c/college/tools/college-cross-admit-comparison.php?compare=Emory+University&with=Vanderbilt+University

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What about Ivy/LAC comparisons? I'd go:

Harvard : Williams
Yale : Amherst
Princeton : Pomona
Columbia : Swarthmore
Penn : Colgate
Dartmouth : Bucknell
Brown : Wesleyan
Cornell : Bowdoin

(Not sure about the last one. Had trouble finding a suitable analogue for Cornell.)

Pretty off.
Harvard: Williams (personalities)
Brown: Amherst (open curriculum)
Yale: Pomona (residential college hype | college consortium hype)
Dartmouth: Bowdoin
Penn: Middlebury
Princeton: Swarthmore
Columbia: Barnard//Wellesley
Cornell: DNE, takes pride in being a public/private, larger institution.

Great list except I think there is no LAC for Penn. The people at Penn are very similar to the people at Cornell and not LAC types at all.

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Anonymous wrote:Be kind to Emory. Just doing its own thing down in Atlanta, occupying its own niche, away from the northeast corridor craziness. Same goes for Tulane. It occupies its own niche.

Tulane and Emory get more attention now because they are in the south. While they aren't academically elite like the northeast colleges they attract good enough students. The question is if it is worth it over the much cheaper state schools. Emory in particular has to compete with UGA for top Georgia students. That is pretty amazing considering how fast the trajectory of UGA has risen due to the Hope/Zell scholarship. So value conscious parents don't need to pay for an expensive private school where the outcomes won't differ.

There will always be some market for expensive, lower tier private schools just because some will want that experience. Since there are so few private schools like that in the south Tulane and Emory get a lot of attention.

Emory has been made up of mostly NE students for over 50 years now, you don't know what you're talking about. And Emory and Tulane aren't peers never will be. And it's not just because of US News even though that's part of it. Emorys peers are and always have been WashU, Vandy, Georgetown, ND, Rice and a few others. I can't figure out what some on this board have against Emory but, your children aren't getting into the school regardless.

+100, could never get in, but have so much to say about it. How did this even start?

What drugs are you on? With a 32 percent ED1 acceptance rate, lots of kids are getting in Emory who are very smart but not too top of the class, It isn’t nearly as hard to get into Emory as those schools you like to think of as its peers.

Right? There are approximately zero people attending Emory at the moment who also got into Vandy with the same merit/no merit but chose Emory over Vandy.

Probably Georgetown as well, unless the applicant is 110% pre-med

It's starting to look like mental illness. Parchment says 30% of Emory and Vandy acceptees choose Emory, but only 10% of all Emory students receive merit scholarships. So how does your scenario work? For Georgetown it's 50/50. Your hate for Emory is weird at this point.
https://www.parchment.com/c/college/tools/college-cross-admit-comparison.php?compare=Georgetown+University&with=Emory+University

https://www.parchment.com/c/college/tools/college-cross-admit-comparison.php?compare=Emory+University&with=Vanderbilt+University

Emory hate, is really forced at this point.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:What about Ivy/LAC comparisons? I'd go:

Harvard : Williams
Yale : Amherst
Princeton : Pomona
Columbia : Swarthmore
Penn : Colgate
Dartmouth : Bucknell
Brown : Wesleyan
Cornell : Bowdoin

(Not sure about the last one. Had trouble finding a suitable analogue for Cornell.)

Pretty off.
Harvard: Williams (personalities)
Brown: Amherst (open curriculum)
Yale: Pomona (residential college hype | college consortium hype)
Dartmouth: Bowdoin
Penn: Middlebury
Princeton: Swarthmore
Columbia: Barnard//Wellesley
Cornell: DNE, takes pride in being a public/private, larger institution.

Great list except I think there is no LAC for Penn. The people at Penn are very similar to the people at Cornell and not LAC types at all.

Columbia’s core curriculum though….

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What about Ivy/LAC comparisons? I'd go:

Harvard : Williams
Yale : Amherst
Princeton : Pomona
Columbia : Swarthmore
Penn : Colgate
Dartmouth : Bucknell
Brown : Wesleyan
Cornell : Bowdoin

(Not sure about the last one. Had trouble finding a suitable analogue for Cornell.)

Pretty off.
Harvard: Williams (personalities)
Brown: Amherst (open curriculum)
Yale: Pomona (residential college hype | college consortium hype)
Dartmouth: Bowdoin
Penn: Middlebury
Princeton: Swarthmore
Columbia: Barnard//Wellesley
Cornell: DNE, takes pride in being a public/private, larger institution.

Great list except I think there is no LAC for Penn. The people at Penn are very similar to the people at Cornell and not LAC types at all.

Sorry, wrong quote above.

Probably most similar LAC to Penn is Tufts.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What about Ivy/LAC comparisons? I'd go:

Harvard : Williams
Yale : Amherst
Princeton : Pomona
Columbia : Swarthmore
Penn : Colgate
Dartmouth : Bucknell
Brown : Wesleyan
Cornell : Bowdoin

(Not sure about the last one. Had trouble finding a suitable analogue for Cornell.)

Pretty off.
Harvard: Williams (personalities)
Brown: Amherst (open curriculum)
Yale: Pomona (residential college hype | college consortium hype)
Dartmouth: Bowdoin
Penn: Middlebury
Princeton: Swarthmore
Columbia: Barnard//Wellesley
Cornell: DNE, takes pride in being a public/private, larger institution.

Great list except I think there is no LAC for Penn. The people at Penn are very similar to the people at Cornell and not LAC types at all.

Bucknell is probably the most comparable LAC to Penn. Both lean pre-professional, are particularly strong in business/finance, and send tons of grads to The Street.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What about Ivy/LAC comparisons? I'd go:

Harvard : Williams
Yale : Amherst
Princeton : Pomona
Columbia : Swarthmore
Penn : Colgate
Dartmouth : Bucknell
Brown : Wesleyan
Cornell : Bowdoin

(Not sure about the last one. Had trouble finding a suitable analogue for Cornell.)

Pretty off.
Harvard: Williams (personalities)
Brown: Amherst (open curriculum)
Yale: Pomona (residential college hype | college consortium hype)
Dartmouth: Bowdoin
Penn: Middlebury
Princeton: Swarthmore
Columbia: Barnard//Wellesley
Cornell: DNE, takes pride in being a public/private, larger institution.

Great list except I think there is no LAC for Penn. The people at Penn are very similar to the people at Cornell and not LAC types at all.

Bucknell is probably the most comparable LAC to Penn. Both lean pre-professional, are particularly strong in business/finance, and send tons of grads to The Street.

Facts. Except the Penn grads get the high-paying front office jobs and the Bucknell grads are buried in the back office fighting for scraps. But otherwise the same.

[Anonymous]

Bucknell even has an advantage over Penn/Wharton due to its size. The pipeline to Wall Street means every Bucknell grad who wants a job in PE or HF is offered a position.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What about Ivy/LAC comparisons? I'd go:

Harvard : Williams
Yale : Amherst
Princeton : Pomona
Columbia : Swarthmore
Penn : Colgate
Dartmouth : Bucknell
Brown : Wesleyan
Cornell : Bowdoin

(Not sure about the last one. Had trouble finding a suitable analogue for Cornell.)

Pretty off.
Harvard: Williams (personalities)
Brown: Amherst (open curriculum)
Yale: Pomona (residential college hype | college consortium hype)
Dartmouth: Bowdoin
Penn: Middlebury
Princeton: Swarthmore
Columbia: Barnard//Wellesley
Cornell: DNE, takes pride in being a public/private, larger institution.

Great list except I think there is no LAC for Penn. The people at Penn are very similar to the people at Cornell and not LAC types at all.

What is an “LAC type”?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What about Ivy/LAC comparisons? I'd go:

Harvard : Williams
Yale : Amherst
Princeton : Pomona
Columbia : Swarthmore
Penn : Colgate
Dartmouth : Bucknell
Brown : Wesleyan
Cornell : Bowdoin

(Not sure about the last one. Had trouble finding a suitable analogue for Cornell.)

Pretty off.
Harvard: Williams (personalities)
Brown: Amherst (open curriculum)
Yale: Pomona (residential college hype | college consortium hype)
Dartmouth: Bowdoin
Penn: Middlebury
Princeton: Swarthmore
Columbia: Barnard//Wellesley
Cornell: DNE, takes pride in being a public/private, larger institution.

Great list except I think there is no LAC for Penn. The people at Penn are very similar to the people at Cornell and not LAC types at all.

Bucknell is probably the most comparable LAC to Penn. Both lean pre-professional, are particularly strong in business/finance, and send tons of grads to The Street.

The most pre-professional finance lacs are CMC and Middlebury.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What about Ivy/LAC comparisons? I'd go:

Harvard : Williams
Yale : Amherst
Princeton : Pomona
Columbia : Swarthmore
Penn : Colgate
Dartmouth : Bucknell
Brown : Wesleyan
Cornell : Bowdoin

(Not sure about the last one. Had trouble finding a suitable analogue for Cornell.)

Pretty off.
Harvard: Williams (personalities)
Brown: Amherst (open curriculum)
Yale: Pomona (residential college hype | college consortium hype)
Dartmouth: Bowdoin
Penn: Middlebury
Princeton: Swarthmore
Columbia: Barnard//Wellesley
Cornell: DNE, takes pride in being a public/private, larger institution.

Great list except I think there is no LAC for Penn. The people at Penn are very similar to the people at Cornell and not LAC types at all.

What is an “LAC type”?

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No clue. The DCUM community would be able to answer this better than anyone else though

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What about Ivy/LAC comparisons? I'd go:

Harvard : Williams
Yale : Amherst
Princeton : Pomona
Columbia : Swarthmore
Penn : Colgate
Dartmouth : Bucknell
Brown : Wesleyan
Cornell : Bowdoin

(Not sure about the last one. Had trouble finding a suitable analogue for Cornell.)

Pretty off.
Harvard: Williams (personalities)
Brown: Amherst (open curriculum)
Yale: Pomona (residential college hype | college consortium hype)
Dartmouth: Bowdoin
Penn: Middlebury
Princeton: Swarthmore
Columbia: Barnard//Wellesley
Cornell: DNE, takes pride in being a public/private, larger institution.

Great list except I think there is no LAC for Penn. The people at Penn are very similar to the people at Cornell and not LAC types at all.

What is an “LAC type”?

+1

No clue. The DCUM community would be able to answer this better than anyone else though

It seemed obvious what they meant. Not too pre-professional, focus in the liberal
arts, small school environment.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What about Ivy/LAC comparisons? I'd go:

Harvard : Williams
Yale : Amherst
Princeton : Pomona
Columbia : Swarthmore
Penn : Colgate
Dartmouth : Bucknell
Brown : Wesleyan
Cornell : Bowdoin

(Not sure about the last one. Had trouble finding a suitable analogue for Cornell.)

Pretty off.
Harvard: Williams (personalities)
Brown: Amherst (open curriculum)
Yale: Pomona (residential college hype | college consortium hype)
Dartmouth: Bowdoin
Penn: Middlebury
Princeton: Swarthmore
Columbia: Barnard//Wellesley
Cornell: DNE, takes pride in being a public/private, larger institution.

Great list except I think there is no LAC for Penn. The people at Penn are very similar to the people at Cornell and not LAC types at all.

What is an “LAC type”?

+1

No clue. The DCUM community would be able to answer this better than anyone else though

It seemed obvious what they meant. Not too pre-professional, focus in the liberal
arts, small school environment.

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Also, less impressed with brand names and "prestige". For example, a kid who is at WASP probably got into at least one T20 university with a better known name. The fact they are at WASP means they don't place much value on name recognition because nobody has heard of WASP.