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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Easy to say if you aren’t an Asian family where the kids need SAT scores and academics that are more serious than other groups to crack the same colleges. I get a little tired of Latin families describing tiny liberal arts colleges as top schools. We’d like our kids to have a shot at our alma maters (hunt Cal schools admitting in the single digits).[/quote]

Ah. I see. Thanks for the clarification. Best wishes.[/quote]

Why can’t a tiny liberal arts college be a too school? Amazing undergraduate research opportunities at my alma mater. You just have to think about things on a per capita basis - e.g. eventual PhDs, prestigious scholarships, Nobel prizes[/quote]

NP here. I think SLACs can be wonderful schools. But they're often hyped beyond belief, especially by parents who are alumni and/or whose little coddled Don Junior couldn't get into a big school like Harvard.[/quote]

You assume everyone wants Harvard or a University setting. I’d prefer a liberal arts college over a university for undergraduate education—so would a quite large number of families who choose Latin based on its small, classical focus on humanities and the relationship among teachers and students.  Lots of people value Latin for its mission, not it’s test scores. [/quote]

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