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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]As someone who knows these schools from the perspective of alum, spouse of alum (different WASP), parent of current WASP student, former employee at a WASP, and employer of multiple recent graduates from the Bowdoin/Carleton/Davidson/Bryn Mawr/CMC ranks, I really believe that the biggest distinguishing factor among all of these S/LACs is the strength and proximity of the 5Cs consortium. While there are parallels to be drawn in theory, in practice the 5Cs consortium is unique in American higher education. How you personally value that as a student or parent is wholly another thread…[/quote]

The 5C consortium is pretty unique but it's not something that separates these school in any way in terms of quality.[/quote]
How is something unique and not unique? Your comment makes no sense.[/quote]

Reading is fundamental. Uniqueness does not inherently convey quality. I hope you aren’t a graduate of a 5c. Not a good look for them.[/quote]
So what does it do? Like what would be the purpose of calling the consortium unique just to then walk back on it…? That seems, well, incoherent and mostly like you wanted to diss Pomona or wherever without being explicit.

At best your point is obtuse and pedantic. Either the consortium is unique or isn’t. I’d say it’s pretty damn hard to argue having a top engineering lac that lets you take engineering, CS, physics, math and climate science courses next to a school dedicated to finance and government and a general liberal arts college is not unique and a good quality choice. There just are curricular options in the Claremont schools that are unique to it, and I think downplaying that is, well, incorrect. Unless quality means nothing to you at all, which could be possible.[/quote]

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