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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It’s really sounding like the kids that go to these schools aren’t actually ready for college but have parents with a lot of money who just push it along.  I’ll bet a year or two in community college would’ve a much better and more cost effective approach.[/quote]

And it really sounds to me like you are doing some selective reading of this post.  There have been several, including me, who’ve posted saying either they or their child had been accepted to higher ranked or much more prestigious/selective colleges but decided to attend a CTCL.[/quote]

So you went to some [b]third tier LAC.[/b].....great, I’m glad it worked out so brilliantly for you.[/quote]

This is obviously a troll, but I see a similar lack of awareness of the higher ed landscape in more well-intentioned discussions. There are well over 1500 liberal arts colleges in the US.  [b]The bulk of the CTCL schools are in the top 100--many in the top 50 or 75--of USNWR. These are schools that are included in the Princeton Review etc. which is meeting a bar that the vast majority of colleges in this country don't meet. They routinely send people to work in top firms, to elite grad programs etc. [/b]  People need to get a clearer view on the full range of colleges in the US when thinking about tiers.  Are these schools in the same league as Swarthmore, Grinnell, Williams etc.? No.  Many drift nearer to and further away from colleges just outside the top 20 like Oberlin, Kenyon etc.   But they have stronger entering profiles of students and student outcomes than many state flagships (not the UVA's and the Uof Ms) and the vast, vast majority of liberal arts colleges in the US.[/quote]

Simply not true.  Go ask any hiring manager of a large firm like myself if they even know what CTCL is.  They won't.  They don't.  They are looking for solid employees who are well-educated (and hey that can include great public schools as well which are a lot cheaper than CTCL) who will show up on time and perform well and not be a SJW or PITA on the job.  Any child that has been coddled through his or her education will not perform in the marketplace and employers know that. [/quote]

All your post does, hiring manager, is display your ignorance.[/quote]

^^ +1.  Exactly.  So a hiring manager thinks kids who to to Emory & Henry or Olaf or Eckerd can't show up on time because of where they went to college? You're a crappy judgmental HR person.  Sorry that HR is all you could find yourself doing  [/quote]

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