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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]2 high profile Wall St alums and couple thousand foreign language teachers grads. Never will be confused with Williams.[/quote]

Don't kid yourself. [b]Williams is special in the same way that another 12-15 tops SLACs are special.[/b] It is no better than any of them and no worse than any of them. All of them are as good or better than any school (Ivy's included) for undergraduate education.

[b]The differences in rankings are driven by endowment size and herd instinct for the peer assessment which is why the idea that any of these schools can be granularly ranked is just flat out dumb.[/b][/quote]
I'd say that those who do make dramatic distinctions from within this group — such as, as examples, "this college will never be that college" and "buy this school, sell that one" — appear to lack an interest in academics and intellectual pursuits. And, personally, [b]I'd say that the LACs that might be regarded as special aren't necessarily those that place the highest in the rankings.[/b]
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I agree with you on this. One of my kids attends one of the "special" LACs, they are an extremely strong student and are having an amazing experience. But, when were doing school tours for our kids over the years (and attending school events) their school isn't one where I felt the most "magic" in terms of what was going on. I spent a weekend at University of Scranton and was constantly amazed at how happy everyone seemed and how active the campus was. Clarkson kids were super engaged and the engineering graduates that I have seen are top notch. Puget Sound felt like a very warm community, and one of my kids has a friend at Beloit who is having an amazing time even though they are far from CA. There were others as well. People get caught up in the rankings game and forget what is actually important.[/quote]

ok which of the "special" LACs does your kid go to? [/quote]

Not necessary in this conversation. They chose teh school but there were many "lesser" schools (in the minds of some, not me) that I would have been just as happy seeing them attend.[/quote]

why won't you tell us? that's weird[/quote]

I’m not the pp, but is it weird given the nosy parkers on this site not to mention the vitriol directed at so-called lesser schools? 
Who needs it?[/quote]

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