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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][twitter][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Don't do ED if you are not really committed. I keep hearing more stories of regret and no college is a golden ticket. 
I think AWS is a better acronym (and more modern in our tech-heavy world). Bluntly, Pomona hasn't really been a peer of the other 3 any more than Wellesley or Bowdoin. Depending on the academic subject and career field, it isn't necessarily the best of the Claremont Colleges either. Even just in the rankings game, AWS are the only LACs USNWR has ever ranked 1st and none of them has ever been ranked below 4.

Personally, Swarthmore was clearly my favorite visiting those schools. Its campus is beautiful and its proximity to a city is a big plus for me. It has good STEM options too.

Williams felt isolated even when it wasn't winter. Amherst was nice but the town wasn't great and I ended up preferring Northampton and Smith's campus to Amherst's. The 7 Sisters schools are excellent options and have great name recognition for LACs too.[/quote]
Your entire Pomona commentary is strange. Overall, Pomona is the best 5C- there’s no competition unless your sole focus is economics or engineering. It has pretty clear academic reasons to be a peer and even superior often than other WASP schools.

Pomona has better outcomes than Bowdoin and Wellesley, similar outcomes to Swarthmore more than Williams (very Econ heavy).[/quote]
+1, the line “Depending on the academic subject and career field, it isn't necessarily the best of the Claremont Colleges either” Was where I knew the PP was just speaking out of personal bias, because that is true of all the WASP. Williams isn’t #1 in almost any of the academic fields for lac => grad school, doesn’t make it a worse school, obviously. It also doesn’t have the best LAC department in every academic subject, nor do any of the WASP.

[b]These days, Claremont McKenna is ranking #1 for LACs off to wall street[/b] and the average salary is very high, but it isn’t a holistic liberal arts college in the way Swat or Pomona are. It’s just a strange comparison- like trying to pin Dartmouth against Caltech.[/quote]

[b]Absolutely not,[/b] three Amherst, Williams, and Middlebury all place as well or better than CMC. You should be proud though, that is some pretty exceptional company for CMC.[/quote]
Not if you actually look at data: [url]https://www.collegetransitions.com/dataverse/top-feeders-banking[/url]. It is great that CMC is amazing at finance, but this is a particularly useless fact for a majority of liberal arts college students.[/quote]

Here's a similar ranking for analyst placement for IB: https://www.peakframeworks.com/post/ib-target-schools

In the weighted ranking, you'll find Middlebury, CMC, Williams, and Amherst---in that order.[/quote]
Why choose a list from 2023? Seems disingenuous. [/quote]

Because that is the last time that PeakFrameworks updated their ranking. Nothing has changed in the past two years.[/quote]
It added nothing to the discussion[/quote]

I would say that it added additional confirmatory information that for IB and Consulting there are a half-dozen top SLACs which place extremely well. It also highlighted that for these types of positions Middlebury has risen to the point where it is as strong as any SLAC. Finally it highlights the fact that for kids shooting for careers in these fields the top SLACs also place as well (or better than) as many of the Ivy+ schools.[/quote]

Middlebury results are skewed by kids with family connections taking care of their own. Williams and Amherst grads can break in to banking without these connections - huge difference [/quote]

And your source for this is?[/quote]
The same sources everyone else is using.[/quote]

I am pretty sure that pulling it out of his ass isn't the same sources that the other posters are using. [/quote]

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