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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think of Williams and Amherst in a similar way - small school with sporty kids with big percentage of recruited athletes. I think they both have a good job pipelines for athletes. Swat is pretty nerdy and intense but close to a city. Pomona is a small school but shares campus with 4 other schools (pitzer, cmc, scripps, harveymudd) so kids have academic and social options. Pomona not popular or as well known on the east coast. [/quote]

I mean, I dont think anyone cares what you - or I - think. But these schools have some of the best financial aid and most to spend per kid. For example, my own kid got more aid from williams than my older one got from Princeton (when we had two in college at same time, filing identical numbers). Also, my own williams kid stopped playing sports in 3rd grade, but that didn't mean he was isolated. He hiked, played tennis with friends, took up running for a little while. It can be outdoorsy when it's not winter, but it's winter a lot. He went skiing one or two weekends a year. Generally they're there for opportunities. Academics are at the forefront. And he had internships started summer after freshman year. It's got real networks. In many ways, it was easy to get into clubs and thus internships than Princeton. But .. like I said, nobody cares about our feelings. Pomona, for example, is very well known where I am on the east coast and popular [/quote]

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