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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It’s okay. Not WASP or really even Carleton level, but it’s a standard decent LAC with decent educators. Great for a long term career in Chicago. [/quote]

This take is crazy. If Grinnell was in Western PA or the Berkshires, this board would be jocking it as much as Bowdoin. The school has tons of financial resources that it can bring to bear for students. [b]Unfortunately, it’s biggest drawback is that it’s in the middle of nowhere Iowa. And Iowa winters are as tough as anywhere. [/b]

And you guys with the woke thing, jeez. Is it more woke than Haverford, Swat, Macalaster, Amherst, Hamilton, etc.? I doubt it. If that is really such a dealbreaker, I’m sure schools like St. Olaf, Dennison, Dickinson, Bucknell, Lafayette, Colgate, etc will fit the bill. Maybe Williams. [/quote]
That’s why it isn’t a peer. It’s in a poor location with little impact on the coasts like the WASP colleges. It has money, but not more than its peers, and it really doesn’t have the best post grad outcomes. It’s at the level of Bryn Mawr.[/quote]

Well on this board, the WASPs, have no peers, right? The bottom just falls right out once you get past them. If we’re basing this on finance careers after graduation I could maybe buy into this nonsense but you just can’t convince me of the general premise.[b] It’s not like Pomona rings out on the east coast either. [/b]For my money, there are 10 to 15 SLACs that lack the name recognition of the WASPs that are all “peers.” For them, fit/vibe is way more important way to distinguish them than where those schools fall on the US News rankings ( or at least it should). Grinnell is absolutely in that mix, and respectfully, I’m not sure Bryn Mawr is. Also, Grinnell’s endowment is 2.5 billion-ish which places it maybe 4th or 5th amongst LACS. If you want to slag off the school, you should maybe know something more about it other than it’s an hour plus outside of Des Moines. [/quote]
This annoys me to the world’s end. Yes it does. You understand that Pomona grads aren’t stuck on an island in Claremont? They go to top grad schools, law school, and med school on the east coast. Same with Williams, Amherst, and Swarthmore to the west coast. They’re elite for a reason.[/quote]

Ugh, settle down cowpolk. My point is that Pomona does not pass the sweatshirt test with John Q. Public. People “in the know” on the east coast obviously know what Pomona is and what it means, just as they do for Grinnell. But way more people who don’t spend time on this forum know what Penn State is but not Pomona. I say this as a parent of a student at a well known NESCAC school that no one in my family had ever heard of before DC chose it. My point was that suggesting those law, grad, and med schools don’t know what Grinnell is because PP doesn’t respect it is absurd . Apologies for taking Pomona’s name in vain.[/quote]

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