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[quote=Anonymous]There is a poster on DCUM who seems to have a spidey sense for whenever the topic of CTCL is mentioned and they always post about marketing, about how this is a total gimmick, about how everyone would be better off at UVA or similar. They've already posted on this thread. It's tiring and you need to just disregard their bizarre obsession with this. They also claim that "most people" feel the same way that they do, and that there are many people who comment on these threads and their appearance on THIS thread is textbook. Expect them to say that "the CTCL boosters" have found this thread, and to accuse anyone with anything positive to say about any CTCL school as working for the consortium.

I went to Beloit for undergrad and a big 10 state flagship for graduate school and my experience at my undergrad school was largely more positive. But, grad school and undergrad aren't really comparable anyway. I'm glad I attended Beloit, and it was a high quality educational experience. Did it "change my life" in some way that wouldn't have happened if I went to a different school? That's impossible to say -- college itself overlaps with a significant developmental period in a person's life and so I certainly had my life changed during college but I'm sure I would have been fine anywhere. But the nurturing, thoughtful, welcoming community suited me and I thrived because of it.

Generally though like other PPs have said you absolutely need to consider each school separately because they can be very different from each other. Beloit, St. Olaf, and Kalamazoo are all fairly similar but are quite different from Hillsdale and Wheaton, for example. [/quote]

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