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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I had a kid apply to Wesleyan, Carleton and Grinnell.  Got into Carleton and Grinnell but not Wesleyan, which would have been the top choice.  Not a huge fan of Carleton and the merit money from Grinnell sealed the deal.

The kid definitely saw differences between the schools, and never even considered the top northeastern SLACs - thought they were way too mainstream.

The point being that students definitely see differences between SLACs.  [/quote]

Our kid had a very positive reaction to Carleton and a negative reaction to Grinnell, to the point we turned down their merit aid offer and picked Carleton. I can of course see a family doing the opposite; fit is personal. A one paragraph description might imply those two are very similar, but in our experience they were very different. [/quote]

Sorry but to have such a dramatically different reaction to the two schools is odd.  Sounds like you’re rankings chasers.  [/quote]
Not PP, but this response is unnecessarily shitty. Is it so hard to believe that a teenager might have different impressions of two different schools? That doesn't strike me as odd in the slightest. [/quote]

Never said “different.”  Said “dramatically different.”  They’re definitely not dramatically different.  [/quote]

I mean most schools arent dramatically different - but we know kids respond to things like the personality of the tour guide, the weather (impacts how lively the campus feels) and things like that so I think one could have a "dramatically different" experience on the same campus on two back to back days to be honest[/quote]

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