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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Top 2 LACs (#1-#2): 
It will always be Williams and Amherst. Period.

Next 2 LACs (#3-#4):
Swarthmore or Wellesley

Next 3 LACs (#5-#7)
Bowdoin or Pomona

Next 3 LACs (#8-#13)
Then it's an argument for the next group with 6 different contenders. Depending on what you care about you could put in Carleton, Middlebury, Vassar, Wesleyan, Mudd (STEM only), or Claremont (social sciences).[/quote]
Just merge #3-#7? It’s arbitrary and  Wellesley is over ranked. I’d even boot out Amherst’s and just put them all together. Williams is the only LAC where it’s not rare to see an alum go off into consulting, IB, or Quant. The others can get a kid in for consulting and IB but quant…Williams is head and shoulders better than every other LAC by any metric you take; Amherst doesn’t have that level of ubiquitous quality. [/quote]
+1, Amherst is good at “soft” subjects. People here get in arms about it, because they have a nice science center, but they’re not known to be remarkable in Mathematics, Biology, Chemistry, Neuroscience, or Physics. They’re better at soft science and humanities, which is commendable in the modern day but not gonna score it better than its lac peers.[/quote]

Except Amherst is the top LAC feeder to med and law schools.[/quote]
And yet still isn’t top feeder for any hard science PhD program. Law is soft science and humanities so expected. [/quote]

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