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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][quote=Anonymous]Reach: Bowdoin
Safety: UVM[/quote]

I like this one.[/quote]

I like this too!

Ours is Reach: MIT and Bowdoin
Target: Bryn Mawr and University of Toronto
Safety: UVM and URI

We are DC residents.[/quote]
Can you explain how? It seems like you can’t choose between big rigorous hard colleges and easy liberal arts schools. They have nothing in common[/quote]

What can I say-- my kid "contains multitudes".  She has compelling reasons to go to any of them.

Anyway, I consider neither Bowdoin, nor Bryn Mawr "easy"-- she plans to major in math and evidently both schools have exceptional math programs that she is excited to be a part of.    [/quote]

Bryn Mawr absolutely. Careful with Bowdoin, especially if she is coming in with post-AP math. My math major loves the school itself but has been limited by course availability - lots of faculty leaves in an already tiny department. [/quote]

Woah-- thanks for the heads up!  Hope Bowdoin can right the ship and get excellent new staff for its math department.[/quote]
Their math faculty come from really underwhelming schools like [b]University of Oklahoma and Manhattan college[/b]. This confirms to me that bowdoin is a much lower tier than people put on.[/quote]
Threw up in my mouth[/quote]

Had to look this up. The Manhattan College guy went on to get a PhD in Math from Brandeis. Is this really so horrible? He probably has a 200 IQ.
https://www.bowdoin.edu/profiles/faculty/r.maresca/index.html
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He’s likely decent at math, but a place like Bowdoin should be attracting top faculty from Princeton, Harvard, Yale, or have some national reputation to compensate.[/quote]

No, the majority of faculty from HYP want to work at R1 universities not SLACs.[/quote]
The faculty lineup of most top lacs says otherwise. You do know there’s lac grads who go to top grad schools and return to their home institution right? Or people who just like teaching?[/quote]

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