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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I went to Williams and am the parent of a recent grad and one current student.  First of all, you can be sporty, smart, outgoing and quirky.  Quirky just means you have something interesting going on -- like you're a lacrosse player who's also in a ukelele group or a tennis player who writes also writes haikus in French or . . . you get my drift, right?  Second, Williams, Bates and Haverford have very different cultures.  Yes, there are students who might be happy at any of those schools, but there are also students who would really click at one of them, but not the other two.  The point is there's more nuance here than the student counselor seems to appreciate.  Third, my kid's counselor at Sidwell perceived him (sporty, smart, outgoing and quirky) as conservative and tried to steer him to fratty schools -- e.g., Duke and Vanderbilt.  We ignored this advice.     [/quote]

I worried that DD wasn't sporty enough for Williams! And it's not the only sporty SLAC. Fisk Guide says that Amherst is the "original home to the well-rounded, super achieving, gentle-person jock." (DD was waitlisted at both.)

FWIW, she's going to another high-ranked SLAC that embraces the term quirky, and in that case, at least, I agree that it's more about the students being interesting than anything.[/quote]

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