Prestigious Schools with least Grinder/All Work Culture

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Anonymous wrote:Second for Davidson!

Is Davidson presitigious?

Yes. 14% admit rate. Best SLAC in the South/Southeast. Meets full financial need with grants (no loans). Has a unique culture of strong academics and supportive professors, staff, and students. Excellent medical, law, and PhD admit rates. Your kid will both learn and like being there. Our Ivy-qualified kid successfully ED’d there. Wasn’t interested in the NE.

totally agree with South/Southeast comment - but very low name recognition in NYC or Northeast. Top level academics and peer to W&M, Villanova, and Northeastern in terms of educational quality and prestige - fine choice

Don’t know anyone who went to Davidson.
Chicago finance prof here

NBA's Steph Curry

+1 Some people are too elite for their own good. PP needs to step out of the ivory tower.

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Anonymous wrote:Second for Davidson!

Is Davidson presitigious?

Yes. 14% admit rate. Best SLAC in the South/Southeast. Meets full financial need with grants (no loans). Has a unique culture of strong academics and supportive professors, staff, and students. Excellent medical, law, and PhD admit rates. Your kid will both learn and like being there. Our Ivy-qualified kid successfully ED’d there. Wasn’t interested in the NE.

totally agree with South/Southeast comment - but very low name recognition in NYC or Northeast. Top level academics and peer to W&M, Villanova, and Northeastern in terms of educational quality and prestige - fine choice

Don’t know anyone who went to Davidson.
Chicago finance prof here

NBA's Steph Curry

Not quite the school name recognition I was talking about

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Second for Davidson!

Is Davidson presitigious?

Yes. 14% admit rate. Best SLAC in the South/Southeast. Meets full financial need with grants (no loans). Has a unique culture of strong academics and supportive professors, staff, and students. Excellent medical, law, and PhD admit rates. Your kid will both learn and like being there. Our Ivy-qualified kid successfully ED’d there. Wasn’t interested in the NE.

totally agree with South/Southeast comment - but very low name recognition in NYC or Northeast. Top level academics and peer to W&M, Villanova, and Northeastern in terms of educational quality and prestige - fine choice

Don’t know anyone who went to Davidson.
Chicago finance prof here

There are two kinds of people who reveal “credentials” on an anonymous thread: liars, and insecure people who think they “deserve” to be listened to. In either case, I’m not listening.

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Anonymous wrote:Second for Davidson!

Is Davidson presitigious?

Yes. 14% admit rate. Best SLAC in the South/Southeast. Meets full financial need with grants (no loans). Has a unique culture of strong academics and supportive professors, staff, and students. Excellent medical, law, and PhD admit rates. Your kid will both learn and like being there. Our Ivy-qualified kid successfully ED’d there. Wasn’t interested in the NE.

totally agree with South/Southeast comment - but very low name recognition in NYC or Northeast. Top level academics and peer to W&M, Villanova, and Northeastern in terms of educational quality and prestige - fine choice

Don’t know anyone who went to Davidson.
Chicago finance prof here

There are two kinds of people who reveal “credentials” on an anonymous thread: liars, and insecure people who think they “deserve” to be listened to. In either case, I’m not listening.

+1 Too true!

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The average GPA at Harvard and Yale is 3.7. Basically, this means if you show up you get an A- at Harvard. So this is not a grind achool. You can say “kids work really hard” but the floor appears to be an A- so really?

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Pomona, Amherst and Bowdoin for SLACs.

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Anonymous wrote:Second for Davidson!

Is Davidson presitigious?

Yes. 14% admit rate. Best SLAC in the South/Southeast. Meets full financial need with grants (no loans). Has a unique culture of strong academics and supportive professors, staff, and students. Excellent medical, law, and PhD admit rates. Your kid will both learn and like being there. Our Ivy-qualified kid successfully ED’d there. Wasn’t interested in the NE.

What would make Davidson better than W&L, for instance?

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Anonymous wrote:The average GPA at Harvard and Yale is 3.7. Basically, this means if you show up you get an A- at Harvard. So this is not a grind achool. You can say “kids work really hard” but the floor appears to be an A- so really?

Total BS. Just showing up as you say and not doing any of the work gets you a F. I can share examples of classmates who only showed up, thought the class would be a piece of cake due to arrogance and ended up with a F on their transcript. You actually need to do the work and grind to get the A-.

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Anonymous wrote:Would love to hear your top 5, including SLACs

This depends on your major. Having said that I have heard that even grind majors like CS etc are 'easier' at Duke and Harvard.

Who goes to Harvard for CS??

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Anonymous wrote:Would love to hear your top 5, including SLACs

This depends on your major. Having said that I have heard that even grind majors like CS etc are 'easier' at Duke and Harvard.

Who goes to Harvard for CS??

Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg? Aka the founders of 2 of the 5 largest tech companies in the world?

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Anonymous wrote:Would love to hear your top 5, including SLACs

This depends on your major. Having said that I have heard that even grind majors like CS etc are 'easier' at Duke and Harvard.

Who goes to Harvard for CS??

Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg? Aka the founders of 2 of the 5 largest tech companies in the world?

And Harvard only offers a BA in CS, which is evidently inferior to a BS.