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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have a nephew who is facing this decision. He has visited both schools and preferred the environment and students at Bowdoin College. [b]His father and most of his friends (he attends an east coast feeder school that sends many to Ivies/top SLACs) are telling him it would be foolish to turn down Williams for Bowdoin.[/b] They are roughly the same cost. Could someone with real world experience share if there's something significant that really sets Williams College apart? Thank you. [/quote]

Curious which feeder school ? Deerfield Academy ?

Career goal of the student ?

In what fields do the parents work ?

How many students does he know or has he met at each school ? Is the student's experience at each school just a one or two day visit ?

Prestige of LACs only matters in the Northeast US. In other regions of the country many may wonder why he didn't go to a National University.[/quote]

Nobody that matters would question why the student didn’t go to a National University. Only mindless folks on places like DCUM and Reddit would be that dim.[/quote]

+1. I would choose Williams or Bowdoin over most Top 30 universities (except HYP, Dartmouth, Upenn, Stanford & MIT). I would def choose a top SLAC over UVA or UMich for example. [/quote]

Strong disagree. It depends on the student - a big state university like UMich offers a lot of opportunities that a SLAC cannot. [/quote]

That is true; one is finely fitted bespoke tailoring and the other is a mid-range off the rack type of thing. Ones goes with what they can afford.[/quote]

Michigan oos is not much cheaper than Williams.[/quote]

So, it's high-priced off of the rack. It doesn't change what it is and it just makes the value proposition even worse.[/quote]

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