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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]hi Midd hater! hope all is well with you![/quote]
? Midd is a great school on the very prestigious Davidson, Colby, W&L, Carleton, Wesleyan, Vassar, CMC, Harvey Mudd, Wellesley, Barnard, Haverford, Grinnell rung. Wouldn’t call it the worst school on that rung, or the best. Somewhere in the Midd, so to speak. WASPB it is not. Don’t get greedy! [/quote]

I would say that people push back because your assertion is nonsensically incorrect

The top 9 SLACs (10 if you count Barnard have SAT medians of 1500+.
There are 5 more with medians of 1480/1490.

All of these schools are effectively the same with student profiles which for 90% of the student population overlap with the T10 universities.

Arguing that any of these schools are better than any of the others is just an exercise in mental masturbation. It makes the insecure feel good but it isn't reality.[/quote]
You are just making a boundary in a different place (after 10, rather than the WASPB 5). But we don’t know what your 10 are. “Effectively the same with student profiles” sounds pretty masturbatory to me. Hope you are not advising students, though, as to the “sameness” of what your 10 are. The back half of your 10 are much easier admits, especially with ED…[/quote]

Sorry, it’s just not true.

I wouldn’t rank any of the schools because it can’t be done. Same for the top universities, it’s nonsense. You can create ‘buckets’ of schools which are generally similar in student quality and resources but you can’t actually rank the schools within the buckets because any methodology is prone to manipulation.[/quote]
You are ranking them, in a bucket of 10. Of course, you are afraid to say what your 10 even are. You are ranking them over those not in your bucket of 10. Self-awareness would be nice.[/quote]

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