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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Claremont McKenna. Super underrated here, but top notch academics, great quality of life, internships/opportunities abound, alumni network + top outcomes. [/quote]

Not a hidden gem.  It’s a very elite college.  You people know nothing![/quote]

It is not well-known at all. Even in SoCal, it's not known.[/quote]

Just stop.  It’s ranked 8th in Us News. It’s extremely selective.  It’s not “hidden” in any way, shape or form. [/quote]

Almost no one pays attention to US News for LAC rankings outside of maybe the top 3 or 5 schools. Other schools are heavily regional in reputation. In DC, CMC is NOT known even by the highly educated. Yes it is a hidden gem. Selectivity numbers don't mean much when you only get ~6000 applicants from an international applicant pool of several million a year. [/quote]

Yes, we are still laughing at you.  Even my lowly little Midwest mind knew of the Claremont colleges back in the 1990s and all of them are well known across the land now with CMC being one of the best knows out of the group.  It is just tiny.[/quote]

This is funny.

I’m highly educated and never had heard of CMC until coming to this board. [/quote]

What this tells me is that while you may be highly educated, your parents and/or grandparents almost most certainly were not.  Or if they did have advanced degrees, they attended state schools or private regional schools and earned practical type degrees like accounting or engineering or nursing.

It's not a judgment on you, but not having heard of these schools is not an indicator of education, but rather of social class.  And I can also guarantee that your kids will know these schools by the time they apply to colleges.

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CMC wasn’t that important until Kravis and Robert’s started heavily philanthropic work. Without them, the school would be a borderline Bucknell.[/quote]

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