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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]“Most prestigious Midwest LAC” is just not a meaningful/consequential category in the real world.  [/quote]

TIL  that the Midwest is not the real world.  Seriously,  the Midwest has prestige preferences just like every other section of the country.  Grinnell or Carleton or Knox or Kenyon or Oberlin have more name recognition in Chicago or Minneapolis or St Louis than a school like Bowdoin, even though Bowdoin is higher ranking nationally.  Regional preference matters. Similarly, UVa is more prestigious in DC than Washington University in St. Louis, but WUSTL is is more prestigious in the Midwest than UVa, even though they are very similar schools, with very similar student bodies. [/quote]

If that’s what you learned, you’re not a very smart student.  I’m from the Midwest — I know it’s part of the real world.  But while people there might assign (a) different pecking order/s to various colleges than, say, East Coasters or Californians, the hierarchies involved won’t differentiate between universities and SLACs.  And, elsewhere, people who care only about SLACs will rank them across geographical boundaries rather than treat Midwestern SLACs as a distinct category.  There’s never a context in which “best SLAC in the Midwest” confers some kind of prestige or reward.  So “What are the best SLACs in the Midwest?” or “Which Midwestern SLACs have the best placement records (in specific industries or places or wrt grad/professional school admissions)?” are sensible questions.  But the question OP posed is just absurd.[/quote]

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