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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We're trying to get a sense of what schools to consider but don't have the means to travel to them. For those who're familiar with any or all of these colleges, could you please give a sense of what the average student attending is like (personality and academic profile)? Or where one could look into that? [b]The challenge with viewbooks and college information is that it all blends into the same cliche profile and makes it difficult to identify characteristics.[/b] As is apparent, we're looking into LACs and LAC-like universities; any other suggestions would be wonderful too.

[b](LACs)[/b]
Barnard College
Colorado College
Claremont Colleges
Hamilton College
Haverford College
Grinnell College
Kenyon College
Smith College
Wellesley College

[b](Universities)[/b]
Brandeis University
Tufts University
University of Rochester
Wake Forest University[/quote]

With the LACs they all seem blend into the same cliche profile precisely because they all are pretty much indistinguishable from one another.  [/quote]

No.  Only people who flunked sociology think that.  
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Not a nickel's worth of difference between most of them - if you believe otherwise please say how and be specific.
OP's observation is right on - i.e., "the same cliche profile [that] makes it difficult to identify characteristics."
And no, I didn't flunk sociology.  I have a rising senior so it is so frustrating to try to distinguish among the Colbys, Bates, Hamiltons, Haverfords. :roll: 
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Are you saying the students are similar or the programs they offer? We visited several of these and they each had a unique campus feel and often approach. For example CC has the block program so it has students taking one class at a time and my daughter was very intrigued by that. Grinnell and Hamilton have no core curriculum or required courses, making it easier to double major and focus only on your area of interest. The campus culture of Barnard is totally different at Barnard (connected to Columbia and in Manhattan) than Kenyon (far out Ohio with one restaurant in town) so that alone makes them different. We were looking for schools with great writing departments so my daughter did research on that aspect and I can tell you that some (Hamilton, Barnard and Kenyon) stood out but she ultimately chose another school with an equally great writing program and unique campus culture.

So IMO there is a lot of difference in LAC.[/quote]

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