For whom is a SLAC/LAC?
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Anonymous
NP. I don't think it is nonsense. I'm looking at my kid's WASP class list and a huge percentage (seems like at least 70%) of the boys, in particular, are athletes. SO MANY. Not sure how my NARP boy will feel socially, but my guess is he'll find his nice, nerdy little tribe. We'll see. |
Anonymous
Loyola is not a liberal arts college. |
Anonymous
My DD was WASP-bound until the accepted students day. She felt a weird bro vibe from the many of the men, and a friendly but cliquey atmosphere in general. She felt it was the opposite of the egghead atmosphere she expected. She's headed to a larger school. I was disappointed, as I've always held SLACs to be the ideal for undergraduate education, but it was her choice. |
Anonymous
OP sounds more interested in a fight and smearing LACs than asking a real question |
Anonymous
Yeah, but their athletes (with possible exception of football), are all smart and accomplished outside of athletics |
Anonymous
I will say the lax bros and football meatheads at these schools seems inordinately large, but that gets magnified in a setting like “accepted students day” where they are all high fiving and giving each other man hugs. Trust me, there is a home for everyone at these SLACs, and they are great places to learn |
Anonymous
I'm the poster above with the NARP boy, and that's my instinct. Tbh he was focused on the opportunity to sit in on classes that day, which he loved, really didn't pay much attention to the social piece. And who knows how many of those kids ended up committing. We're keeping an open mind. |
Anonymous
I have one at WASP. I am aware of at least four of his friends who are on various teams. Not only are they sporty and social, but I am really impressed by how smart they are and how they handle the crazy workload of telraining and games and academics. My kid is not an athlete and has had no issues making friends at all, from the nerdy to the sporty. I honestly wonder if many of those posting here even have current knowledge or whether they are simply harking back to an older time when the athlete/non-athlete divide may have been more prevalent. |
Anonymous
Ha, same. High school kids are booooored in summer, trolling the adults for fun |
Anonymous
Oh my goodness, what a load. Do you work in public relations, by chance? |
Anonymous
It is flat out false, either you are making things up or you can't count. Let me help out. All four SWAT schools have a higher male/female proportion than UNC which is 40/60 Three of them are better than UVA which is 43/57 (Amherst is about the same) Two of them are better than UMich which is 47/53 Overall the top SLACS have better M/F ratios than most schools (because those ratios hold further down the list as well). As to the second part. The athletes are in the same proportion as the school (little thing called Title IX) for the most part so they don't skew the proportions at all and overall you can use 33% to get a rough sense of the number of athletes. So we know that the schools aren't skewed in gender ratios, they are better than large state schools So we know that the athletes aren't overrepresented in terms of males because Title IX prevents it which means: Two thirds of the kids are NARPs making almost one third of the school population NARP boys. Are you trying to imply that a huge population of NARPs are gay and thus your little NARP child will feel out of place? That assertion isn't nonsense, it is beyond nonsense. |
Anonymous
| It is for my kid, who is committed to a high-academic SLAC. She'll have the opportunity to continue her sport, learn in an incredible environment directly from the professor and not some TA (and do the sort of research that would go to doctoral or grad students at a flagship). She'd be lost socially at a flagship. |
Anonymous
| My 4.0/35 ACT kid has no interest in a big school. Applying only to LACs. |
Anonymous
It has a required liberal arts core, focus on undergraduate teaching, small size, most students living on campus. If it walks like a duck… |
Anonymous
It's not a trope. While big football schools can and do have some of that, you can also spend 5 years and never actually meet a professor if you want to avoid small classes. That is a plus for alot of kids who are perfectly happy ot sign up for big lectures where no attendance is taken so you don't actually have to go. On the other hand, that is the entirely to of the SLAC experience and something you seek because you cannot avoid it and become anonymous. That is what it is all about. |
