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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The top 15-20 SLACs are a lot of work. The classes are small and participation/attendance counts. You can’t skip classes and do well. You can’t sit in the back and not do the reading and be successful.  [/quote]

NP This is just not true IME. Lots of flexibility and generous grading. I went to a top 20 SLAC and have friends who went to others and who have sent their dc to these same schools. [/quote]
Which ones? please name instead of talking in a cloud.

DD goes to Williams and DS goes to Pomona, neither have generous grading, but I guess their classes could be "flexible" unsure of what that means exactly. Classes are very difficult, and both spend a lot of time on their work as a math and physics/history major respectively. At Pomona, there's increasing pressure for faculty to institute strict attendance policies (More than 3 absences over the semester -> a letter grade dropped in many classes). I personally went to Yale, and, from the class tours I had time to tour, it seems just as rigorous as my undergraduate education.[/quote]

For one, they don’t grade on a curve. Some schools do so kids have to fight for an A and truly be the best to get one. That is not the case at SLAC. It’s not that hard to get at least a B in many classes.

Profs can be very hands on and flexible about late papers, etc. Plenty of hand holding for a kid who reaches out (to a limit of course).

I’m not going to out myself but look at the top 20 SLAC list, including Yale (two of my co workers went there and agree), Pomona and Williams. I think people want to say they are hard, but IME the hardest part is getting in. [/quote]

You mean as opposed to Harvard and Yale, where 80% of kids get an A?  Even so much so that it is reported in major newspapers. That is not true at SLACs.  [/quote]

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