LAC prestige analysis and reputation?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Total troll. When I went to law school in the 1990s I recall looking at the room and trying to gauge who’d be on the law review at the end of the year based on where they went to college. I came from a T20 undergrad university and assumed the other T20 kids and selective SLAC kids would cruise through our first year. It ended up almost the complete inverse. College selectivity had no bearing on law school results, and many kids who had gone to state schools in backwoods towns crushed it. It was humbling. If you are smart, you’ll rise up in a law school environment. OP if you had really gone to the schools you are suggesting you attended, you’d know this already.

+100. 1990’s T-14 law grad

Same, although my impression was that there was a correlation between undergrad prestige and law school grades. Of course, that has nothing to do with the OP, who is clearly a troll.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:WWASP (Williams, Wellesley, Amherst, Swarthmore, Pomona) are equal to schools ranked 11-25. So some ivys but not HYP. Looking at parchment data and also the WSJ rankings from 2021 indicate this. The other LACs like Haverford, CMC, Vassar etc are at the BC, Georgia Tech, NYU level.

Nonsense. The student profiles at the top 25 schools and the top 15 or so SLACs are identical. None of them are better than any of the others even if some wish it were so. The foolishness which exists around the Ivy+, WASP. NESCAC, etc. is just over the top and absurd blithering by desperate wannabe social climbers.

Student profiles are not the only thing that makes an undergraduate, students outcomes are not equal at the non top 5 LACs. Also students prefer T25s over LACs according to parchment.
https://www.parchment.com/c/college/tools/college-cross-admit-comparison.php?compare=Emory+University&with=Vassar+College

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:WWASP (Williams, Wellesley, Amherst, Swarthmore, Pomona) are equal to schools ranked 11-25. So some ivys but not HYP. Looking at parchment data and also the WSJ rankings from 2021 indicate this. The other LACs like Haverford, CMC, Vassar etc are at the BC, Georgia Tech, NYU level.

Nonsense. The student profiles at the top 25 schools and the top 15 or so SLACs are identical. None of them are better than any of the others even if some wish it were so. The foolishness which exists around the Ivy+, WASP. NESCAC, etc. is just over the top and absurd blithering by desperate wannabe social climbers.

Student profiles are not the only thing that makes an undergraduate, students outcomes are not equal at the non top 5 LACs. Also students prefer T25s over LACs according to parchment.
https://www.parchment.com/c/college/tools/college-cross-admit-comparison.php?compare=Emory+University&with=Vassar+College

Because lacs have different educational emphasis. If all you care about is ROI, CMC is right there waiting for you- but some people don’t give a crap about going into finance and don’t make money the center of their lives- all of the top 20 lacs have amazing outcomes, probably just not the ones you personally want.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:WWASP (Williams, Wellesley, Amherst, Swarthmore, Pomona) are equal to schools ranked 11-25. So some ivys but not HYP. Looking at parchment data and also the WSJ rankings from 2021 indicate this. The other LACs like Haverford, CMC, Vassar etc are at the BC, Georgia Tech, NYU level.

Nonsense. The student profiles at the top 25 schools and the top 15 or so SLACs are identical. None of them are better than any of the others even if some wish it were so. The foolishness which exists around the Ivy+, WASP. NESCAC, etc. is just over the top and absurd blithering by desperate wannabe social climbers.

Student profiles are not the only thing that makes an undergraduate, students outcomes are not equal at the non top 5 LACs. Also students prefer T25s over LACs according to parchment.
https://www.parchment.com/c/college/tools/college-cross-admit-comparison.php?compare=Emory+University&with=Vassar+College

Because lacs have different educational emphasis. If all you care about is ROI, CMC is right there waiting for you- but some people don’t give a crap about going into finance and don’t make money the center of their lives- all of the top 20 lacs have amazing outcomes, probably just not the ones you personally want.

sorry but OP asked for PRESTIGE not ROI.

and everyone knows that it's BUCKNELL that's the biggest ROI LAC. it's a pipeline to the STREET!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:WWASP (Williams, Wellesley, Amherst, Swarthmore, Pomona) are equal to schools ranked 11-25. So some ivys but not HYP. Looking at parchment data and also the WSJ rankings from 2021 indicate this. The other LACs like Haverford, CMC, Vassar etc are at the BC, Georgia Tech, NYU level.

Nonsense. The student profiles at the top 25 schools and the top 15 or so SLACs are identical. None of them are better than any of the others even if some wish it were so. The foolishness which exists around the Ivy+, WASP. NESCAC, etc. is just over the top and absurd blithering by desperate wannabe social climbers.

Student profiles are not the only thing that makes an undergraduate, students outcomes are not equal at the non top 5 LACs. Also students prefer T25s over LACs according to parchment.
https://www.parchment.com/c/college/tools/college-cross-admit-comparison.php?compare=Emory+University&with=Vassar+College

Because lacs have different educational emphasis. If all you care about is ROI, CMC is right there waiting for you- but some people don’t give a crap about going into finance and don’t make money the center of their lives- all of the top 20 lacs have amazing outcomes, probably just not the ones you personally want.

sorry but OP asked for PRESTIGE not ROI.

and everyone knows that it's BUCKNELL that's the biggest ROI LAC. it's a pipeline to the STREET!!

Well for finance prestige, you’re looking at Williams and CMC for the top. These days, with middlebury following. Prestige differs by field too.

So your crap point didn’t land.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:WWASP (Williams, Wellesley, Amherst, Swarthmore, Pomona) are equal to schools ranked 11-25. So some ivys but not HYP. Looking at parchment data and also the WSJ rankings from 2021 indicate this. The other LACs like Haverford, CMC, Vassar etc are at the BC, Georgia Tech, NYU level.

Nonsense. The student profiles at the top 25 schools and the top 15 or so SLACs are identical. None of them are better than any of the others even if some wish it were so. The foolishness which exists around the Ivy+, WASP. NESCAC, etc. is just over the top and absurd blithering by desperate wannabe social climbers.

Student profiles are not the only thing that makes an undergraduate, students outcomes are not equal at the non top 5 LACs. Also students prefer T25s over LACs according to parchment.
https://www.parchment.com/c/college/tools/college-cross-admit-comparison.php?compare=Emory+University&with=Vassar+College

Because lacs have different educational emphasis. If all you care about is ROI, CMC is right there waiting for you- but some people don’t give a crap about going into finance and don’t make money the center of their lives- all of the top 20 lacs have amazing outcomes, probably just not the ones you personally want.

sorry but OP asked for PRESTIGE not ROI.

and everyone knows that it's BUCKNELL that's the biggest ROI LAC. it's a pipeline to the STREET!!

Well for finance prestige, you’re looking at Williams and CMC for the top. These days, with middlebury following. Prestige differs by field too.

So your crap point didn’t land.

it was a joke lol. you didn't get it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:WWASP (Williams, Wellesley, Amherst, Swarthmore, Pomona) are equal to schools ranked 11-25. So some ivys but not HYP. Looking at parchment data and also the WSJ rankings from 2021 indicate this. The other LACs like Haverford, CMC, Vassar etc are at the BC, Georgia Tech, NYU level.

Nonsense. The student profiles at the top 25 schools and the top 15 or so SLACs are identical. None of them are better than any of the others even if some wish it were so. The foolishness which exists around the Ivy+, WASP. NESCAC, etc. is just over the top and absurd blithering by desperate wannabe social climbers.

Student profiles are not the only thing that makes an undergraduate, students outcomes are not equal at the non top 5 LACs. Also students prefer T25s over LACs according to parchment.
https://www.parchment.com/c/college/tools/college-cross-admit-comparison.php?compare=Emory+University&with=Vassar+College

Because lacs have different educational emphasis. If all you care about is ROI, CMC is right there waiting for you- but some people don’t give a crap about going into finance and don’t make money the center of their lives- all of the top 20 lacs have amazing outcomes, probably just not the ones you personally want.

sorry but OP asked for PRESTIGE not ROI.

and everyone knows that it's BUCKNELL that's the biggest ROI LAC. it's a pipeline to the STREET!!

Well for finance prestige, you’re looking at Williams and CMC for the top. These days, with middlebury following. Prestige differs by field too.

So your crap point didn’t land.

it was a joke lol. you didn't get it.

That was a joke? How sad.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:WWASP (Williams, Wellesley, Amherst, Swarthmore, Pomona) are equal to schools ranked 11-25. So some ivys but not HYP. Looking at parchment data and also the WSJ rankings from 2021 indicate this. The other LACs like Haverford, CMC, Vassar etc are at the BC, Georgia Tech, NYU level.

Nonsense. The student profiles at the top 25 schools and the top 15 or so SLACs are identical. None of them are better than any of the others even if some wish it were so. The foolishness which exists around the Ivy+, WASP. NESCAC, etc. is just over the top and absurd blithering by desperate wannabe social climbers.

Student profiles are not the only thing that makes an undergraduate, students outcomes are not equal at the non top 5 LACs. Also students prefer T25s over LACs according to parchment.
https://www.parchment.com/c/college/tools/college-cross-admit-comparison.php?compare=Emory+University&with=Vassar+College

Because lacs have different educational emphasis. If all you care about is ROI, CMC is right there waiting for you- but some people don’t give a crap about going into finance and don’t make money the center of their lives- all of the top 20 lacs have amazing outcomes, probably just not the ones you personally want.

+1, I need every LAC thread to start with what major and career and area to live the OP’s kid wants. It’s a complete waste talking about differences between WASP if your DD has a clear major and area preference, like doing a math PhD or wanting to do conservation in the western us.

[Anonymous]

If you are worried about prestige ...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:WWASP (Williams, Wellesley, Amherst, Swarthmore, Pomona) are equal to schools ranked 11-25. So some ivys but not HYP. Looking at parchment data and also the WSJ rankings from 2021 indicate this. The other LACs like Haverford, CMC, Vassar etc are at the BC, Georgia Tech, NYU level.

Nonsense. The student profiles at the top 25 schools and the top 15 or so SLACs are identical. None of them are better than any of the others even if some wish it were so. The foolishness which exists around the Ivy+, WASP. NESCAC, etc. is just over the top and absurd blithering by desperate wannabe social climbers.

Student profiles are not the only thing that makes an undergraduate, students outcomes are not equal at the non top 5 LACs. Also students prefer T25s over LACs according to parchment.
https://www.parchment.com/c/college/tools/college-cross-admit-comparison.php?compare=Emory+University&with=Vassar+College

Because lacs have different educational emphasis. If all you care about is ROI, CMC is right there waiting for you- but some people don’t give a crap about going into finance and don’t make money the center of their lives- all of the top 20 lacs have amazing outcomes, probably just not the ones you personally want.

sorry but OP asked for PRESTIGE not ROI.

and everyone knows that it's BUCKNELL that's the biggest ROI LAC. it's a pipeline to the STREET!!

Well for finance prestige, you’re looking at Williams and CMC for the top. These days, with middlebury following. Prestige differs by field too.

So your crap point didn’t land.

it was a joke lol. you didn't get it.

That was a joke? How sad.

Bruh, are you new here? Everyone on here knows the "Bucknell is pipeline to the street joke".

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My spouse and I are also Ivy undergrad as well as med school. Our kid is really excited about LAC's. Intellectually, we completely get it and we are committed to supporting whatever he wants to do.

Emotionally, however, I have this fear that I am going to be patrolling DCUM for decades defending any slight to LAC's, explaining that there are folks who turn Ivies down to go to LAC's, etc. It's embarrassing to admit this, but it's real. Maybe the shame will fade one day. Or maybe the kid will change their mind.

As long as you avoid using the word “pipeline,” when referring to your kid’s slac, you should be ok.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Obviously a troll post, as any serious analysis of this question would of course begin with Bucknell at the top of the prestige list.

Also, there is simply no way a couple with 4 Ivy League degrees between them would not have long since already formed strong opinions on this matter.

Fee, fi, fo, fum I smell the blood of state school strivers on D-C-U-M!

Exactly. Everybody knows that at the top boarding schools the students looking for the best undergrad education skip the Ivies & focus on SWAB.

[Anonymous]

OP is a troll. Such a useless post.

[Anonymous]

WASP is the best. The top 15 in general are very strong.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:WWASP (Williams, Wellesley, Amherst, Swarthmore, Pomona) are equal to schools ranked 11-25. So some ivys but not HYP. Looking at parchment data and also the WSJ rankings from 2021 indicate this. The other LACs like Haverford, CMC, Vassar etc are at the BC, Georgia Tech, NYU level.

Nonsense. The student profiles at the top 25 schools and the top 15 or so SLACs are identical. None of them are better than any of the others even if some wish it were so. The foolishness which exists around the Ivy+, WASP. NESCAC, etc. is just over the top and absurd blithering by desperate wannabe social climbers.

+1. Nailed it!