Why are WASP so elite?

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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.

Fascinating take. My sense from this is that SLACs are where lazy rich kids go because they have the connections and inheritances to drift through life and don't want to be encumbered by smart kids or real ambition. And that matches my anecdotal observations about the families that choose these schools. Which is fine. It's sheltered families that have no desire or need to participate in the real world. But for any bright kid that wants to do things, this sounds like banishment and a destiny for a very boring life.

They are not “lazy rich”. lol

You should be happy if your Asian grandchildren are going to these lacs. The “smart kids or real ambition” Asian kids you raised and so proud of will not raise your grandchildren the same way you did. They won’t be drilling APOS math at age of 3. They also won’t do AMIE starting 8th grade.

Let's not respond to stupidity with racism.

Asian-American LAC grad. Most of the AA LAC grads I know have kids who are interested in T-50/SEC/ACC/Big Ten schools. Kids’ interests have changed (across all races) and they want different things from their college experience.

Fiction, looks like "The South is Rising" booster is back online.

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Anonymous wrote:Can’t imagine spending more than 4 hours at Colby, Colgate, Hamilton, or Midd. But their boosters will tell us there is a Walmart and a Panera 15 minutes away assuming it’s not snowing.

Please don't, then.

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Chicago and Hopkins moms tell us it’s very safe as long as you don’t go outside the campus. What’s the difference? You might just go somewhere safe if you’re living in a bubble.

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Average people know of the Holiday Inn, but have never heard of Four Seasons. NESCAC is the Four Seasons, and those of us in the know are happy to keep it that way. You lower class losers can enjoy your Holiday Inn.

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Anonymous wrote:Average people know of the Holiday Inn, but have never heard of Four Seasons. NESCAC is the Four Seasons, and those of us in the know are happy to keep it that way. You lower class losers can enjoy your Holiday Inn.

THIS

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These posts make for excellent entertainment. Wow - the insecurity in this thread is palpable! “IYKYK,” amirite?

[Anonymous]

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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.

Fascinating take. My sense from this is that SLACs are where lazy rich kids go because they have the connections and inheritances to drift through life and don't want to be encumbered by smart kids or real ambition. And that matches my anecdotal observations about the families that choose these schools. Which is fine. It's sheltered families that have no desire or need to participate in the real world. But for any bright kid that wants to do things, this sounds like banishment and a destiny for a very boring life.

This is an odd and ignorant take. The kids at the top SLACs certainly are not lazy. They are highly qualified and very motivated. Just as much or maybe even more than the uni's. You can't disappear and cut class at a SLAC where there are only 20 students in each class. The prof is going to notice. If your kid is lazy they would go to a larger school where there are huge lectures and no one will know if they cut classes.

is that why 50% are test optional?

Same reason that the Ivy league was TO up until the past year. The whole TO trope is just weak and foolish. All of these schools went TO at teh same time. I'd like to see everyone revert back to testing but the idea that being TO is hurting them is dim.

except the ivies are largely going back to test required. even yale which is test optional received 85% test scores. LACs cant get top students so they remain TO and only 50%

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Anonymous wrote:These posts make for excellent entertainment. Wow - the insecurity in this thread is palpable! “IYKYK,” amirite?

insecure parents who pissed away money becaue they couldnt get into an actual top school instead of a podunk unrecognizable sister of the poor school

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Anonymous wrote:These posts make for excellent entertainment. Wow - the insecurity in this thread is palpable! “IYKYK,” amirite?

insecure parents who pissed away money becaue they couldnt get into an actual top school instead of a podunk unrecognizable sister of the poor school

Chicago? Have to ED though.

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Anonymous wrote:These posts make for excellent entertainment. Wow - the insecurity in this thread is palpable! “IYKYK,” amirite?

insecure parents who pissed away money becaue they couldnt get into an actual top school instead of a podunk unrecognizable sister of the poor school

Pretty sure this is a complete face plant…..kinda like
Ohio rizz.

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It’s really sad seeing the holy cross boosters cling to their nonexistent alum

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Anonymous wrote:Average people know of the Holiday Inn, but have never heard of Four Seasons. NESCAC is the Four Seasons, and those of us in the know are happy to keep it that way. You lower class losers can enjoy your Holiday Inn.

This is so crazy, yet funny. Should have used Relais Chateau vs Ritz would have landed better.

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Anonymous wrote:Average people know of the Holiday Inn, but have never heard of Four Seasons. NESCAC is the Four Seasons, and those of us in the know are happy to keep it that way. You lower class losers can enjoy your Holiday Inn.

This is so crazy, yet funny. Should have used Relais Chateau vs Ritz would have landed better.

Yeah, but that would require PP to actually know what those are.

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Anonymous wrote:Yeah, but that would require PP to actually know what those are.

True. Agree. Like knowing a cold fork from a salad fork. That Creek is a club not a stream. That Jackson is a town not a ski resort. Jupiter is a town not a planet for us. The list could go on and on. Fitzgerald nailed it yet it still continues.

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These are the same PP who don’t understand that DC will attend Harvard College which is the liberal arts division of Harvard University. Another example, at Columbia you attend Columbia College. Yes they may have CS and engineering but they are liberal arts colleges and you yourself are attending a SLAC wrapped into a larger university. Why don’t they understand this? They have seen the outside walls of these institutions but they never could cut it to see inside? This is not to split hairs….