LAC leadership

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Anonymous wrote:Only half right. HC has long Irish tradition but drew from all over the country since its founding over 150’years ago. Sounds like the Demographics of BC which until 30 years ago was metro Boston. By contrast Midd drew from Northeast Wasps not a growing demographic.

Well, hate to tell you that the Ivies and top NE LACs all drew from NE Wasps historically too. And a college is always going to do best in its own region, so that's expected. But Midd and others have branched out in the past decades.

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Take away Augusta National, let us know how many Nobel Prize Laureates graduated from BC, or Rhodes Scholars vs HC.? Also HC on Supreme Court, Dr Fauci(HC grad), Chris Matthews, Bill Simmons. Med School presidents grad from HC. BC does produce more NFL linemen and hockey players.

[Anonymous]

Apparently word about Midd isn’t being warmly received because their apps have fallen for a few consecutive years unlike Colby.

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Anonymous wrote:Speaking of admissions data Wellesley had 8500 apps for a class of about 600 women. Does anyone think Midd or Wesleyan is better than Wellesley-not even close.

Well, if you’re telling me that Wellesley is head and shoulders above Wes or Mid or Hamilton you are delusional. They’re comparable, but only one of those schools is facing the ever growing irrelevance of the all girls college.

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Anonymous wrote:Apparently word about Midd isn’t being warmly received because their apps have fallen for a few consecutive years unlike Colby.

I like Colby and I hope it ends up on my DC’s list but I don’t think any of the top 25 LACs play more games to max applications and massage the admit rate than Colby. Maybe sit this one out.

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Anonymous wrote:Have heard AMAZING things about Davidson's leadership too.

+1

Do you know Davidson prez has to be Christian. No thanks.

among LACs, Davidson is doing nothing particularly ambitious. It’s a good school and does fine getting its students into meaningful (read high salary) careers. It’s nothing special.

https://www.davidson.edu/news/2026/02/26/davidson-college-secures-47-million-launch-martin-institute-public-good

[Anonymous]

DC is hoping to attend Davidson. Good to know that they are really trying to be innovative. DC really loved the tour, knows current students who are happy, the emphasis on Humanities, and the deep resources. I certainly understand that Davidson isn't for every student, just like my DC didn't love other excellent schools where s/he would receive an excellent education. We are fortunate to live in a nation with so many wonderful colleges and universities.

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Anonymous wrote:HC dominates every LAC excluding Williams in Csuite placement and boardrooms. Midd. And Colgate might do better on Wall Street. As far as applications the trend is upwards for HC and recently down for Midd and Colgate. Holy Cross coasted for several years but their new President and admissions teams are hitting homeruns. Kids like sports and things to do culturally on weekends with Boston 1 hour away and Worcester’s rebirth. Sure beats going 15 miles to the Walmart which is a big problem for Hamilton, Colgate, Midd, Bates, Bowdoin, Colby, and Bucknell. HC mops the floor with Div 3 NESCAC in football, basketball, hockey, lacrosse and baseball. Tennis team recently beat Trinity but HC men’s rowing is consistently top 25. NESCACs would best HC in fencing, squash, and water polo. It’s endowment per student would be below Colby and Midd but Holy Crosd is beginning a large Capital Campaign. Williams, Amherst, and Bowdoin have the cache and $3-4 billion endowment to fight off rural locations. The rest of the NESCACs don’t. Kids want to be near civilization and HC is only Top LAC close to Boston not named Wellesley College. Holy Cross women basketball plays Michigan on ESPN this week snd baseball made it in NCAAs last spring it’s football team plays at Northwestern and Navy and lastly it is the oldest non Ivy rival over 130 years with Harvard, Yale, Dartmouth and Brown. The Crusaders are moving in the right direction but yes not Williams/Amherst.

https://nces.ed.gov/collegenavigator/?q=Holy+cross&s=all&id=166124#admsns

SAT-CR: 630-710
SAT-M: 610-700
ACT: 27-32

And that's with only 30% submitting the SAT and 15% submitting the ACT.

Perfectly respectable numbers, but the comparisons to Williams or even Colgate are ridiculous. That academic profile is more in line with Conn College and Gettysburg.

Based on this information, there's little statistical overlap between Holy Cross and the top academic LACs. In particular, IPEDS information for some other LACs shows 25th percentile SAT scores greater than Holy Cross' 75th percentile SAT scores. Moreover, fewer students submitted at Holy Cross.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Only half right. HC has long Irish tradition but drew from all over the country since its founding over 150’years ago. Sounds like the Demographics of BC which until 30 years ago was metro Boston. By contrast Midd drew from Northeast Wasps not a growing demographic.

Aren’t like 40% of HC students from Mass? It’s a regional school at best.

[Anonymous]

Bowdoin and Coby have left Midd in rear view mirror. Bowdoin has leaped ahead by every metric. Colby has been so aggressive in fundraising and its facilities are amazing. Hamilton and Midd are stuck in neutral.

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Colby has been transformed under the leadership of a dynamic president.

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Anonymous wrote:Bowdoin and Coby have left Midd in rear view mirror. Bowdoin has leaped ahead by every metric. Colby has been so aggressive in fundraising and its facilities are amazing. Hamilton and Midd are stuck in neutral.

Hamilton got a new president last year. It seems like he is bringing a new perspective with an emphasis on interdisciplinary studies something Hamilton does well. I will say the previous president did increase Hamilton's endowment, lowered its acceptance rate and pushed it up a couple spots of the US News ranking (ahead of Colgate and Colby). Hamilton will never be Williams, but it is in a solid position with an upward trajectory.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Colby has been transformed under the leadership of a dynamic president.

For those who might find it interesting, Colby's president graduated from Hamilton.

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No one cares about Holy Cross. It is so sad that these 50% Catholic school grads who refuse to interact with someone non-Catholic and will end up in mid-office Wall Street jobs and call themselves "investment bankers" while commuting to Hicksville but wishing they could live in Garden City with all of the ND alums have to hijack every thread on DCUM.

It is a perfectly fine school. But you are making fools of yourselves for making it seem like something it is not.

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^retread post you made before.