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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Don't know if anything has changed, but when I was applying to colleges about 10 years ago, Hamilton was known to New Englanders as the place where rich kids go when they couldn't get in anywhere else.  It was not well-respected, but again, things may be different now.  [/quote]

The college admissions picture can change a lot in 10 years and a good strategic marketing campaign can make a big difference in a school's selectivity.  Look at Wash U for an example -- over the past decade it has become a target school for many kids from this area who are on the cusp at Ivy-level schools.  As a result, it's filled with strivers and has very impressive exmissions stats for law and med schools.  Hamilton is similarly a back-up for kids who don't quite edge into Williams/Amherst/Bowdoin/Middlebury (the NESCAC schools), but these are definitely not kids who "couldn't get in anywhere else".  [/quote]

It's a reach to call WashU a target school for almost anyone. I know kids who were accepted to Vandy who weren't accepted to WashU. I know kids accepted to Penn who weren't accepted to WashU.[/quote]

Yes, Wash U is definitely playing in the same sandbox as Vandy and Penn, but it's a target for kids who have a good shot at HYP, Columbia, Brown and Stanford.  You're not going to find many kids who were accepted at Wash U, but not at those schools.  This doesn't mean that those schools are "better than" Wash U, or that the kids who go to them are "smarter than" kids at Wash U --  just that they're a tad higher on the food chain.   These are all great schools.  [/quote]

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