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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't think there is a tremendous appeal. Has always been for near-miss kids. They all want to be at Harvard or Brown. That's the chip on the shoulder that you are observing.[/quote]

Has is occurred to you that there are superstar students who could go anywhere - literally - but who prefer the benefits of a top liberal arts college? If not, I can assure you that there are. My DC being one of them. DC was the #4 - ranked high school debater in the US. For reference, top national debaters are hot commodities in the college admissions universe. They also tend to be top-of-call, 1560+ SAT types. They're the gold standard for the academic-docket admit. On DC's large debate team, of which DC was captain, the majority of graduates (large majority) went on to Ivies and equivalents (they favored Chicago and Stanford). Correct, one club at one public high school sent 15 seniors to Ivies/equivalents. And half of those students later ended up at Yale/Stanford/Harvard law schools, clerking for federal judges, etc. Just to give an idea of the cohort.

MY DC chose one of the Amherst/Williams/Swarthmore colleges because they preferred an LAC over a research university. Not all kids are blinded by the Ivy brand.

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