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You certainly shouldn't let it bother you because anyone who knows anything about colleges knows the NESCAC schools (Amherst, Bowdoin, Wesleyan, Williams, Bates, Colby, Hamilton, Middlebury, Trinity, Tufts (no longer a liberal arts schools but still a member of NESCAC, and Conn College) and other highly selective liberal arts schools such as Pomona, Carleton, Wellesley, Claremont McKenna, Haverford, Davidson, Washington and Lee, Vassar, Harvey Mudd, Grinnell, Smith, Colgate, Oberlin, Bryn Mawr, Macalester, Colorado College, University of Richmond, Bucknell, Holy Cross, Mt. Holyoke, Scripps, Barnard, Kenyon, Sewannee.

When I used to hire recent college grads I preferred liberal arts grads over big state U grads by a mile.  They are more well-rounded (most liberal arts schools have a core curriculum that requires students to take a broad range of both science/quantitative and humanities courses which require intellectual rigor and writing skills) which leads to being able to think outside the box and having a higher level of general knowledge and cultural literacy.  They are far less "applied" thinkers than those who major in professional programs (business, communications, etc) at the undergraduate level and far, far better writers.  That's not to say that big state U doesn't have these kinds of thinkers but you can pretty much count on it if a graduate is from one of the selective liberal arts colleges.[/quote]

Not my experience as someone who has hired from both state schools and private LACs, but then again I'm probably not as big a name dropper as you seem to be.     [/quote

So is that to say then that the LACs grads were lacking?  Didn't have the requsite skillsdue to shortcomings in the LACs curriculum?[/quote]

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