CTCL schools

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Someone please tell me what CTCL stands for?

Colleges That Cling to Life by marketing themselves to desperate parents of underachieving kids who need to think their kids are going somewhere special.

You have issues.

I literally think he is certifiable. This has gone on for years.

News flash: more than one poster thinks CTCL schools are a joke

[Anonymous]

Then never attend one of them.

But why the endless need to put them, and any student who selects one of them, down?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Someone please tell me what CTCL stands for?

Colleges That Cling to Life by marketing themselves to desperate parents of underachieving kids who need to think their kids are going somewhere special.

You have issues.

I literally think he is certifiable. This has gone on for years.

News flash: more than one poster thinks CTCL schools are a joke

+1. A little naive to believe that only a single person has has an issue with this whole CTCL clownery over the years. Newsflash: most people find it cringey.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:For the love of pete, OP, use the search function.
https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/967827.page

https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/255/811496.page#15289901

I would hardly say that DCUM is "obsessed" with them.

And for people who say they're "safeties" or "below average" schools -- that's just so out of touch. There are literally *thousands* of schools in the US with much "lower" admit rates and student profiles than the typical CTCL. Think: regional state schools. Even lower profile LACs -- like the kind USNWR calls "regional colleges."

Kalamazoo, for example, is largely regarded as the most elite liberal arts college in Michigan.

I think people are just misinterpreting the "change lives" part, as if it is schools for kids who were struggling. All you have to know is that Reed is on the list and you'd get that you were wrong about that. The point is that these are great colleges for undergraduate learning and individual, academic access to professors. That is what changes your life.

The fact that any college can "change your life." Some of the schools on the list are decent on their own. As a grouping, it makes zero sense and smacks of a completely bizarre and desperate attempt at marketing.

OMG. You should find some therapist that will help you work through the reality that a group of schools have been dubbed, "Colleges That Change Lives," and some students have good experiences at them. Really, they exist, that is what they are called...and you are never going to change that. Find another windmill Don Quixote.

^^^This!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Someone please tell me what CTCL stands for?

Colleges That Cling to Life by marketing themselves to desperate parents of underachieving kids who need to think their kids are going somewhere special.

You have issues.

I literally think he is certifiable. This has gone on for years.

News flash: more than one poster thinks CTCL schools are a joke

But I bet you’re the one that was hurt. Deeply.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Someone please tell me what CTCL stands for?

Colleges That Cling to Life by marketing themselves to desperate parents of underachieving kids who need to think their kids are going somewhere special.

You have issues.

I literally think he is certifiable. This has gone on for years.

News flash: more than one poster thinks CTCL schools are a joke

But I bet you’re the one that was hurt. Deeply.

Why would anyone be hurt?

[Anonymous]

CTCLs are like "public Ivies." A collection of schools that a single author wrote about in a single book because that author thought those schools met a list of arbitrarily defined criteria deemed favorable by the author. The terms themselves, CTCL and public Ivy, are just clever neologisms coined by the authors to sell books. I'm not sure why people get so worked up over them one way or the other.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Someone please tell me what CTCL stands for?

Colleges That Cling to Life by marketing themselves to desperate parents of underachieving kids who need to think their kids are going somewhere special.

you are really cruel. why? what has gone wrong in your life that you need to mock parents who are working with their children to find a good match for college?

it's also sad, sad for you and your family. don't be so confident that your children share your perspective. i work with many families and see this time and again.

[Anonymous]

I would have infinitely more respect for someone that said "I went to Rhodes" or "I went to Kalamazoo" or "I went to St. Johns College" than someone who said "I went to a CTCL school". People just don't even know what CTCL is, since it's not really a thing, except it IS a cancer. Quite literally.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:For the love of pete, OP, use the search function.
https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/967827.page

https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/255/811496.page#15289901

I would hardly say that DCUM is "obsessed" with them.

And for people who say they're "safeties" or "below average" schools -- that's just so out of touch. There are literally *thousands* of schools in the US with much "lower" admit rates and student profiles than the typical CTCL. Think: regional state schools. Even lower profile LACs -- like the kind USNWR calls "regional colleges."

Kalamazoo, for example, is largely regarded as the most elite liberal arts college in Michigan.

Bullcrap. Hillsdale has a much lower admit rate and much higher incoming student stats.

https://www.nytimes.com/1999/11/15/us/scandal-rocks-a-conservative-campus.html

https://www.salon.com/2000/01/19/hillsdale/

https://www.nationalreview.com/1999/11/horror-hillsdale-john-j-miller/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WPcap/1999-11/18/097r-111899-idx.html

When the NYT, National Review, and WaPo are on the same page....

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I would have infinitely more respect for someone that said "I went to Rhodes" or "I went to Kalamazoo" or "I went to St. Johns College" than someone who said "I went to a CTCL school". People just don't even know what CTCL is, since it's not really a thing, except it IS a cancer. Quite literally.

LOL. Have you really met someone who says that? I know grads from those three schools as well as others on the list. No one says that.

No pun intended, but why do you need to die on this hill?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:For the love of pete, OP, use the search function.
https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/967827.page

https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/255/811496.page#15289901

I would hardly say that DCUM is "obsessed" with them.

And for people who say they're "safeties" or "below average" schools -- that's just so out of touch. There are literally *thousands* of schools in the US with much "lower" admit rates and student profiles than the typical CTCL. Think: regional state schools. Even lower profile LACs -- like the kind USNWR calls "regional colleges."

Kalamazoo, for example, is largely regarded as the most elite liberal arts college in Michigan.

Bullcrap. Hillsdale has a much lower admit rate and much higher incoming student stats.

https://www.nytimes.com/1999/11/15/us/scandal-rocks-a-conservative-campus.html

https://www.salon.com/2000/01/19/hillsdale/

https://www.nationalreview.com/1999/11/horror-hillsdale-john-j-miller/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WPcap/1999-11/18/097r-111899-idx.html

When the NYT, National Review, and WaPo were on the same page 20+ years and multiple administrations ago....

Fixed it for you.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I would have infinitely more respect for someone that said "I went to Rhodes" or "I went to Kalamazoo" or "I went to St. Johns College" than someone who said "I went to a CTCL school". People just don't even know what CTCL is, since it's not really a thing, except it IS a cancer. Quite literally.

LOL. Have you really met someone who says that? I know grads from those three schools as well as others on the list. No one says that.

No pun intended, but why do you need to die on this hill?

The weird CTCL boosters on DCUM literally say things like this all the time. Strange argument you seem to be making.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:For the love of pete, OP, use the search function.
https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/967827.page

https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/255/811496.page#15289901

I would hardly say that DCUM is "obsessed" with them.

And for people who say they're "safeties" or "below average" schools -- that's just so out of touch. There are literally *thousands* of schools in the US with much "lower" admit rates and student profiles than the typical CTCL. Think: regional state schools. Even lower profile LACs -- like the kind USNWR calls "regional colleges."

Kalamazoo, for example, is largely regarded as the most elite liberal arts college in Michigan.

Bullcrap. Hillsdale has a much lower admit rate and much higher incoming student stats.

https://www.nytimes.com/1999/11/15/us/scandal-rocks-a-conservative-campus.html

https://www.salon.com/2000/01/19/hillsdale/

https://www.nationalreview.com/1999/11/horror-hillsdale-john-j-miller/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WPcap/1999-11/18/097r-111899-idx.html

When the NYT, National Review, and WaPo were on the same page 20+ years and multiple administrations ago....

LOL. This insularity is not limited to two decades and multiple admins ago - well, at least not in the GOP.

Fixed it for you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I would have infinitely more respect for someone that said "I went to Rhodes" or "I went to Kalamazoo" or "I went to St. Johns College" than someone who said "I went to a CTCL school". People just don't even know what CTCL is, since it's not really a thing, except it IS a cancer. Quite literally.

LOL. Have you really met someone who says that? I know grads from those three schools as well as others on the list. No one says that.

No pun intended, but why do you need to die on this hill?

The weird CTCL boosters on DCUM literally say things like this all the time. Strange argument you seem to be making.

Parents on a website v grads IRL, but you do you.