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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m the “troll” who thinks that CTCL is baloney. The list above is not of every CTCL school and their graduation rate, it’s just a sample.  I’m sure others are equally or almost as low. The point is that the schools are just not great.  Collectively they are just a subset of average private schools that are marketing themselves together because they’re desperate. That’s it. It’s annoying that you people insist that they are special simply because they’re in some book.  [/quote]

They're a group of schools with things in common like small classes, forgiving admissions committees, and support for struggling kids, who have decided to join together to use their limited marketing budgets.  They've come up with a label that describes their goal, which is to change trajectories for students.  If your kid is already on a perfect trajectory, then these schools aren't for them, because they don't need this kind of change.  But for kids who do need it, they are special places.  Not more special or less special, but special.

If that's not what you or your kid needs, great.  I'm happy for you.  But I have no idea why you think it's annoying when schools market themselves by describing themselves accurately, or when people who do benefit from this model recommend their schools to other people in similar situations.  
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Benefit from what “model”?  The model of small schools that no one’s ever heard of that are having trouble getting students to apply, enroll, and graduate?   That a pretty common model.  Not a special one. [/quote]

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