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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I understand the original 5 most prestigious LACs were Williams, Amherst, Middlebury, Swarthmore and Pomona. Now that USNWR has become ubiquitous, our kids are thinking that it's Williams, Amherst, Swarthmore and Bowdoin. I'm old enough to recall the "little three" was Williams, Amherst and Wesleyan.

What are the old, venerable "top 5" LACs with the strongest global name recognition now and strongest expertise across all subjects or disciplines?

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I'm a Pomona alum and I've never heard of the original 5 being what you said.

It has always been AWS, with Pomona, Wellesley, Bowdoin, and Middlebury swapping around the other ranks. Now Middlebury is not as highly ranked, and Carleton/Claremont McKenna come close to those 6 LACs.

I believe Pomona, Wellesley, and Bowdoin have ranked 3 exactly once or twice. Otherwise very consistently in the 4-7 range.

US News has very consistently put AWS on a different league. It has nothing to do with whether or not Pomona, Bowdoin, Middlebury, etc. deserve to belong in the same rank. I think they do (in fact I turned down AS myself), and they're all very close peers alongside several others. But USNews does think otherwise. [/quote]

I think majority of kids would turn down AWS for Pomona .[/quote]

Highly doubtful assertion.

I know of kids from our West Coast feeder who in the past two years turned down Pomona and CMC for NESCAC schools. I know another who turned down Pomona for Swat. They all wanted to experience the East Coast for college and they obviously saw no difference in the schools quality. [/quote]
Why can’t people just accept here that others are different? DD would rather die than go to a tiny school in the middle of nowhere Massachusetts with nothing to do; clearly there are many students who’d adore that. These tiny lacs aren’t really that interesting. [/quote]
+1, for DD, she wants to optimize her ROI and knows that a lucrative career matters to her. For us, CMC or Mudd, who top rankings on ROI, makes a lot more sense than Swarthmore or Williams. It's great some people need their kid to get a Phd and be professors, but most families have no need to place their kids into pre-PhD training sites like the top LACs claim to be.[/quote]

You need to stop, you are an embarrassment to [b]the 5C consortium none of whom would ever claim to be superior to the NE SLACs [/b]which they are mostly modeled after (Mudd is an exception). CMC and Mudd are two very different places, two great schools. However, it is not likely that the same kid is applying to both of them.[/quote]
Why not? 3 of the 5 are top 10 lacs and they are better than other colleges at many things. Why give them a lesser role?[/quote]

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