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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Id imagine the smaller schools that are extensions of prep schools -- i.e. Bates, Colby, Bucknell etc. have a less pressure cooker environment.  They are less rigorous than Middlebury, Bowdoin etc.  but still sort of in the same bracket -- elite SLAC adjacent.  [/quote]

It's so dismissive to call these schools "extensions of prep schools." I bet if a 17-year-old is attending a prep school, you're impressed by their academic pedigree, but if an 18-year-old attends a SLAC, you think they're a slacker.[/quote]

I think PP could have been more careful with their wording, but IME it’s 100% true that if you went to Andover Exeter etc, a SLAC is going to have a really similar feel. There’s nothing wrong with that - plenty of my classmates went on to matriculate at SLACs and it was perfectly respectable. But believe it or not, they are similar settings, just with more public drunkenness added in.[/quote]

So for the 400 seniors at Andover and the 300 at Exeter, these schools might be more of the same. But they're not more of the same for most of the rest of the 3.8 million seniors graduating every year.

Maybe better just to say that Andover and Exeter are like SLACs for pre-college students?[/quote]

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