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Anonymous
I don’t wonder why. I don’t really care why. |
Anonymous
I think PP is pointing out that CTCL troll is simultaneously saying that CTCLs are too expensive to be worth it, but also that they discount their tuition so much that they clearly must have some nefarious agenda. |
Anonymous
This. It has nothing to do with the CTCL label. Outside of the highly ranked/need-aid-only schools, the pricing model for colleges is to mark up tuition and give most students a scholarship aka discount to make them feel like they are getting deal. You can leverage your stats to get a better deal at schools where you are in the top tier. If you can't pay $70K+, don't qualify for FA, don't want to get into massive debt, and don't want to limit your options to your in-state public Us, that's the game you have to play. |
Anonymous
| I’d send my kid to Wooster or Juniata before I’d ever send them to Salisbury or Radford. |
Anonymous
No they don’t. Not like this. |
Anonymous
If your kid can get into Wooster they’d likely have better in state options in VA than Radford. |
Anonymous
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We're still talking about this?
CTCL is a phony name. Ignore the branding. The grouping makes no sense and most of the colleges would do better to just abandon the cringe inducing CTCL name, though the CTCL pushers here would be devastated. |
Anonymous
| Not really. The CtCL posters seems to accept it is a marketing effort but has some use. The CTCL hater(s) takes a really different approach, suggesting some personal slight or pathological need for the last word. |
Anonymous
In your fun-house mirror mind version of the "CTCL pushers" we would be devastated. Those of us who found having one presentation with a team knowledgeable about a whole bunch of small schools, where ----in one hour-- we can demonstrate interest, find out about their merit aid offerings and likelihood of getting them would be fine if they called it "Some schools to Look At" or "Small College Collective" or whatever. And we never use the term again after selecting which schools to apply to off the list except to tell other in the college search process looking at LACs that it's a good organization to look at for info. |
Anonymous
| No, people on DCUM bring up CTCL constantly ("I went to a CTCL") -- it's really a bit bizarre, acting as if it's a term that's actually used or even recognized. |
Anonymous
How many times do we have to explain this to you?! It is a shorthand used here to preserve anonymity. No one IRL is saying that out loud. |
Anonymous
| Evergreen State College is a CTCL school. It accepts nearly everybody who applies (98 percent) and a full 1/3 don't make it past freshman year. So much for changing lives. |
Anonymous
That's the national average for freshman retention. That said, it's good to due diligence on any list of colleges for things that matter to you. For LACs I look at: Freshman retention, 4 and 6 year graduation rates, career outcomes, and graduate school admissions. I look at where my kid falls on GPA/SAT and aim to be in the upper half. I couldn't give 2 beans about percent accepted. |
Anonymous
If it's the national average than it proves my point that CTCL schools aren't "special." In many cases they're just average. |
Anonymous
It's more of an obsession than a point. |