CTCL schools

[Anonymous]

DCUM parents are obsessed with them.

Discuss.

[Anonymous]

Don't feed this troll. He or she ALWAYS divebombs any mention of CTCL, with an attack.

I oropose that if people have had good (or bad) experiences with CTCL, let them share them.

If you have reached your opinion based upon NO experience with such schools...maybe don't chime in. Just a thought.

(Oh no, now I have fed him myself)

[Anonymous]

CTCL is not a real thing. STOP trying to make it a thing.

No one cares. Seriously. It's just embarrassing at this point.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Don't feed this troll. He or she ALWAYS divebombs any mention of CTCL, with an attack.

I oropose that if people have had good (or bad) experiences with CTCL, let them share them.

If you have reached your opinion based upon NO experience with such schools...maybe don't chime in. Just a thought.

(Oh no, now I have fed him myself)

+1

[Anonymous]

The term is interchangeable with “lesser known high acceptance rate LACs.”

I agree that most colleges offer a good education and a good experience, but I cringe whenever I read that acronym.

[Anonymous]

The acronym is incredibly cringey and a very transparent and obvious marketing ploy by the associated schools and their (desperate) parents. Genuinely wouldn't be surprised if the person(s) who keeps posting about CTCL is from an admissions team from one of the schools. It's a term that literally does not get used outside of DCUM and their website.

[Anonymous]

Also, it's a terribly thought-out acronym considering its far more well-known usage is for cutaneous t-cell lymphoma, a type of cancer.

[Anonymous]

We have had a good experience with a CTCL school. In a cynical way, I do appreciate their branding exercise. They have taken second tier liberal arts colleges which would typically have had a more homogenous and regionally restricted student body and---by virtue of the CTCL consortium---been able to expand their applicant pool. I think that is a good thing. Otherwise---my experience now having done the college search for multiple kids is that unless your kid has great stats and can either get into a top 25 public or private university or SLAC, then most schools are very geographically constrained in terms of their student body.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We have had a good experience with a CTCL school. In a cynical way, I do appreciate their branding exercise. They have taken second tier liberal arts colleges which would typically have had a more homogenous and regionally restricted student body and---by virtue of the CTCL consortium---been able to expand their applicant pool. I think that is a good thing. Otherwise---my experience now having done the college search for multiple kids is that unless your kid has great stats and can either get into a top 25 public or private university or SLAC, then most schools are very geographically constrained in terms of their student body.

I also think their inclusion process helps you differentiate between SLACs outside the top ones that actually have energy, vision, interesting curricula and those that are just sort of trundling along. The marketing angle can be cheesy but I agree with their inclusion criteria in a lot of ways. I do think you have to carefully look at their selections though--some are really strong, but others may have lower financial health, not offer robust programs you're interested in or have weaker graduation rates than you're comfortable with (though even the lowest grad rates among these schools are higher than the national average).

[Anonymous]

They aren't "second tier"

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:They aren't "second tier"

Would you say they are third or fourth tier then?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They aren't "second tier"

Would you say they are third or fourth tier then?

One step above Community College

[Anonymous]

It would be interesting for Jeff to report how many of these posts are written by the same troll.

Luckily, CTCL families tend to be secure...so have a field day Troll.

[Anonymous]

+1. This need to bash a branding tool is really weird.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It would be interesting for Jeff to report how many of these posts are written by the same troll.

Luckily, CTCL families tend to be secure...so have a field day Troll.

“CTCL families?” Wow. You’re talking about more than 40 colleges across the country. How on earth do you know how all of their families “tend to be?”

OP may be a troll, but this is one weird response.