CTCL schools

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There's a campus on the CTCL list that is precisely 2 miles from my childhood home and I have never heard anyone say ''I graduated from a CTCL.'' Rather they say ''I graduated from (the school).'' And gasp--they are all gainfully employed in their fields, at least the ones I know.
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Anonymous wrote:Has anyone attended a CTCL fair? I just got a mailing that they are doing a nationwide tour in August.

I recommend them highly. My DC and I went early on (maybe junior year). It really impacted the direction of our search. NOT because they were pushing their own schools, but because they advocate an approach/philosophy that is very healthy.

They explain "fit" and why it matters. They recommend against kids competing with their friends in the search process. They give tips on how to minimize parent-child tension along the way. I really do recommend that you attend, and try to get your child to sit in as well. It set a great tone for our search, and my DC was very successful.

They're basically trying to sooth your ego over the fact that an elite college isn’t in the cards for your kid and are hoping that in the end the subtle sales pitch has you applying to one or more of their overpriced schools.

Depends on what you mean by overpriced. They’re no more expensive than state schools for most kids.

There were a couple of CTCLs on DC's list that would have likely been cheaper than going to UVA/W&M for us.

Ha ha maybe but none of them even approaches the same league as these schools so you get what you pay for. Nobody is turning down UVA for a silly CTCL school.

My DC did in fact turn down UVA for a CTCL school.

Frankly, I don't believe you. Name the school.

I am not going to do that as it could identify him.

You know what? You're probably right that it could identify him. That's how much of a rarity he would be.

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Anonymous wrote:So for the hell of it I looked at Yale's website, and in the last 5 years the law school the law school admitted somebody from only 5 of the 44 CTCL schools. The other 39 struck out completely. I'd also venture a guess that the 5 who did get somebody in probably only got one in -- except maybe Reed, which is really too good of a school to belong to CTCL and really is slumming it by associating with the others.

Admitted or enrolled?

C'mon now, pay attention to the thread. Nearly everybody admitted to Yale Law enrolls, CTCL grads are not turning down Yale Law in droves, trust me.

It only has an 85% yield rate. And ''trust me'' isn't a valid answer to any statistical question, sorry.

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Anonymous wrote:You really need to pay a professional who can help you figure out why you can’t give your crusade a rest.

There are more than one of us. How many are you?

I hate to reply to this thread because I want it to die, but there is one, maybe two CTCL hating tolls and as much as you might try to convince us otherwise, we can tell. Because it’s literally impossible that there would be two weirdos who would keep this hellscape of a thread going with the constant reupping and obvious anti-CTLC comments and anti-CTCL sockpuppeting on other threads.

I went to a CTCL (I would never say that IRL, so don’t proffer your snarky reply about how it’s dumb to use the phrase; I just don’t want to out myself) and now I teach your precious offspring at a top 10 R1. A friend who went to college with me teaches at UVA.

So, you might not send your kids to a CTCL school, but I promise you that your kids are being taught by grads of the schools you spurned.

Why aren't you teaching at a CTCL? Students aren't good enough for you? Trying to make up for the lack of your college prestige?

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Anonymous wrote:You really need to pay a professional who can help you figure out why you can’t give your crusade a rest.

There are more than one of us. How many are you?

I hate to reply to this thread because I want it to die, but there is one, maybe two CTCL hating tolls and as much as you might try to convince us otherwise, we can tell. Because it’s literally impossible that there would be two weirdos who would keep this hellscape of a thread going with the constant reupping and obvious anti-CTLC comments and anti-CTCL sockpuppeting on other threads.

I went to a CTCL (I would never say that IRL, so don’t proffer your snarky reply about how it’s dumb to use the phrase; I just don’t want to out myself) and now I teach your precious offspring at a top 10 R1. A friend who went to college with me teaches at UVA.

So, you might not send your kids to a CTCL school, but I promise you that your kids are being taught by grads of the schools you spurned.

Why aren't you teaching at a CTCL? Students aren't good enough for you? Trying to make up for the lack of your college prestige?

Not pp, but professors don't really get to pick and choose where they teach. Academia is brutal and you get what you get.

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Anonymous wrote:So for the hell of it I looked at Yale's website, and in the last 5 years the law school the law school admitted somebody from only 5 of the 44 CTCL schools. The other 39 struck out completely. I'd also venture a guess that the 5 who did get somebody in probably only got one in -- except maybe Reed, which is really too good of a school to belong to CTCL and really is slumming it by associating with the others.

Admitted or enrolled?

C'mon now, pay attention to the thread. Nearly everybody admitted to Yale Law enrolls, CTCL grads are not turning down Yale Law in droves, trust me.

It only has an 85% yield rate. And ''trust me'' isn't a valid answer to any statistical question, sorry.

Right. 85 percent is nearly everybody. That's a hell of a yield. I really doubt that Evergreen State College and University of Lynchburg are routinely spurning Yale Law offers. Cut me a break.

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Anonymous wrote:You really need to pay a professional who can help you figure out why you can’t give your crusade a rest.

There are more than one of us. How many are you?

I hate to reply to this thread because I want it to die, but there is one, maybe two CTCL hating tolls and as much as you might try to convince us otherwise, we can tell. Because it’s literally impossible that there would be two weirdos who would keep this hellscape of a thread going with the constant reupping and obvious anti-CTLC comments and anti-CTCL sockpuppeting on other threads.

I went to a CTCL (I would never say that IRL, so don’t proffer your snarky reply about how it’s dumb to use the phrase; I just don’t want to out myself) and now I teach your precious offspring at a top 10 R1. A friend who went to college with me teaches at UVA.

So, you might not send your kids to a CTCL school, but I promise you that your kids are being taught by grads of the schools you spurned.

Why aren't you teaching at a CTCL? Students aren't good enough for you? Trying to make up for the lack of your college prestige?

? Because the best fit for my skill set was at the school I’m at now. I don’t even think the particular place I went to college has had an opening in my field for some time. Not that I’d want to live in that small town for the rest of my life anyway.

A lot of my colleagues with LAC backgrounds do indeed go on to teach at other LACs, but some don’t… because: shock: just because you went to a teaching-focused college doesn’t mean you want to teach at one.

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Anonymous wrote:So for the hell of it I looked at Yale's website, and in the last 5 years the law school the law school admitted somebody from only 5 of the 44 CTCL schools. The other 39 struck out completely. I'd also venture a guess that the 5 who did get somebody in probably only got one in -- except maybe Reed, which is really too good of a school to belong to CTCL and really is slumming it by associating with the others.

Are you for real? My undergrad LAC had a graduating class of ~250. A small fraction of those even had any any interests in going to law school. You’re talking about a school that enrolls 220ish people per year (after rejecting thousands) and using the fact that none of the, say, max 60 people over 5 years who might have even applied to *any* law school didn’t get in to the *top* law school? Is that as some kind of gotcha?

I guarantee you that UVA or UMB or whatever school you deem worthy had way more applicants rejected from Yale Law than my undergrad CTCL did.

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Anonymous wrote:So for the hell of it I looked at Yale's website, and in the last 5 years the law school the law school admitted somebody from only 5 of the 44 CTCL schools. The other 39 struck out completely. I'd also venture a guess that the 5 who did get somebody in probably only got one in -- except maybe Reed, which is really too good of a school to belong to CTCL and really is slumming it by associating with the others.

Are you for real? My undergrad LAC had a graduating class of ~250. A small fraction of those even had any any interests in going to law school. You’re talking about a school that enrolls 220ish people per year (after rejecting thousands) and using the fact that none of the, say, max 60 people over 5 years who might have even applied to *any* law school didn’t get in to the *top* law school? Is that as some kind of gotcha?

I guarantee you that UVA or UMB or whatever school you deem worthy had way more applicants rejected from Yale Law than my undergrad CTCL did.

UVA sends many students to top law schools every single year - including Yale and its own top 10 law school.

Your silly little undergrad doesn’t stand a chance with Yale Law.

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No one has a problem with LACs generally. Everyone has a problem with poorly constructed marketing gimmicks with cheesy names. That's what's behind all the eye-rolling with CTCL.

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Anonymous wrote:So for the hell of it I looked at Yale's website, and in the last 5 years the law school the law school admitted somebody from only 5 of the 44 CTCL schools. The other 39 struck out completely. I'd also venture a guess that the 5 who did get somebody in probably only got one in -- except maybe Reed, which is really too good of a school to belong to CTCL and really is slumming it by associating with the others.

Are you for real? My undergrad LAC had a graduating class of ~250. A small fraction of those even had any any interests in going to law school. You’re talking about a school that enrolls 220ish people per year (after rejecting thousands) and using the fact that none of the, say, max 60 people over 5 years who might have even applied to *any* law school didn’t get in to the *top* law school? Is that as some kind of gotcha?

I guarantee you that UVA or UMB or whatever school you deem worthy had way more applicants rejected from Yale Law than my undergrad CTCL did.

UVA sends many students to top law schools every single year - including Yale and its own top 10 law school.

Your silly little undergrad doesn’t stand a chance with Yale Law.

DP. Grow up.

And UVA is way larger in size than LACs.

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Anonymous wrote:No one has a problem with LACs generally. Everyone has a problem with poorly constructed marketing gimmicks with cheesy names. That's what's behind all the eye-rolling with CTCL.

+1. See? There’s more than one of us!

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I see the trolls are getting hammered by actual professors now.

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Anonymous wrote:No one has a problem with LACs generally. Everyone has a problem with poorly constructed marketing gimmicks with cheesy names. That's what's behind all the eye-rolling with CTCL.

No actually most people have bigger things in life to worry about than the CTCL label. It’s just the name of a list of schools people looking for LACs might want to check out. It’s not a big deal.

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Anonymous wrote:You really need to pay a professional who can help you figure out why you can’t give your crusade a rest.

There are more than one of us. How many are you?

well then maybe you all can get a group therapy rate.

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