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Anonymous
| The CTCL boosters are unhinged and delusional. |
Anonymous
The CTCL haters are unhinged and delusional. |
Anonymous
| Jesus Christ. |
Anonymous
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See second post on this thread.
We were forewarned. |
Anonymous
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The desperate insistence that there's just one person who would dare to find the CTCL branding cringe-inducing is really delusional.
Seriously, why not just say you went to an LAC? Why try to differentiate yourself and tout your specialness by saying you went to a CTCL? |
Anonymous
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^^^ exactly
I like you. |
Anonymous
| 42 pages and over 10,000 view. OP is on to something. The CTCL lovers are going batsh*t crazy defending their “specialness” |
Anonymous
(Only commenting because this is already at the top of the College forum; I too want this thread to die) You are delusional. This thread is huge because it's like watching a gigantic trainwreck, of which you (or, the two of you) were the main driver. |
Anonymous
You've seriously got to stop with this. It's embarrassing for you. I can assure you, the vast majority of people think this whole "CTCL" thing is a joke. Seriously, it's not a thing in academia and will get you laughed out the door if you try to act like it is in a room full of academics. |
Anonymous
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Oops, I am an academic and my DC goes to a CTCL.
Guess that makes me a CTCL parent. Let me shout it from the rooftops with pride and specialness. |
Anonymous
+1 I'm an academic and though my kid doesn't go to one, several of the schools were on our list. And I liked the CTCL presentation and recommend it to parents who ask me about college admissions. (Though it's funny that they ask me, as a professor I have never seen an undergraduate admissions file and my only special knowledge is what are good grad schools in my particular fairly narrow field. I was nearly as hapless as other parents in college search processes). Though, like many of my colleagues who teach at research universities, we're drawn to LACs or LAC-like schools for our own children's undergrad. I like the idea of a school where undergrads are the sole potential research assistant for a faculty member. In my lab at a research university, there's maybe one undergrad a semester and a whole lot of MS/PhD students. At DC's school whole labs are made of undergrads. |
Anonymous
So why do you post? Seriously, if this is a joke, why do you post? Are you in academia? In LAC academia? In the Midwest and South? Because if you are, then you will know that there are many regional groupings where college leaders and academics who straddle that area are familiar with their peer schools. The academics may not know the CTCL term, but they know their peers and wouldn't be surprised that there is a consortium. |
Anonymous
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To those of you in academia who proudly tout your kids attending CTCLs, we know why. Either they didn’t perform a at the level needed to get admitted to better schools, or being in academia you couldn’t afford the tuition and chased the money. And that’s fine. Not special, just fine.
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Anonymous
| Okay, thanks. I feel better now. No more hanging my head in shame. |
Anonymous
Why is it so shameful for someone to say that their kid goes to a “worse” school? I don’t understand. My dc would be the first to admit that that there is no way that they could have gotten into UVA or W&M. And my DC isn’t a bad student. Most kids who apply to W&M and UVA get rejected. That doesn’t mean that they weren’t going to go to college. You basically need a college degree to do anything these days so people hav to go somewhere. |