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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Agree 3 hours in Willamstown is 2 hours too much.[/quote]

Somebody's kid didn't get in. Is that you Colby booster?[/quote]

First PP. No, Williams dropped off her list and she ED'd to Amherst instead. Amherst was at the outer limit of her tolerance for remote, and she is very happy there. [/quote]

I’m the one who received the jab about southern schools.. during overnite, the nerd hosts took my kid to the library and flexed about how long each spent on an econ problem. Bleh.  Combined with the coach basically embarrassing himself begging my kid to pick Williams and several pompous (and unpublished) professors, very easy decision to go “lower in the rankings” for a fun school with comparable outcomes [/quote]

The mixing of "nerd hosts", "begging coach", and "pompous professors" into a single thread which is a triple of "non-existent stereotypes" at Williams (or other top NESCAC SLACs) was an impressive attempt. Thank-you for such an interesting little bit of fiction.[/quote]

painful as it may be for some of you, there are some raging nerds at Williams. And the begging coach was real, who lost out to Colgate and a 50% athletic scholarship for my kid. Will fully fund his roth IRA ($7k a year next 4 years), and cut him a check for the balance to invest or down payment on house at 22.  And likely will have the same available outcomes, maybe better as a D1 athlete.. pass on Williamstown all day every day[/quote]

so this "athletic scholarship" is really just financial aid? this is what Williams etc do. there's no tuition break for playing sports. [/quote]

Colgate and other Patriot League schools do give Athletic Scholarships but not Academic Merit....that doesn't mean that the PP's kid got any. Too many things in their post make no sense so it's likely fiction but Athletics money happens in the Patriot League.

There would not have been "nerd hosts", the hosts are teammates, typically Upperclassmen from the same position and potentially a Captain. They would have been doing their best to make the place seem like Nirvana for the recruit. They most definitely would not have been nerds and likely would have been very driven Econ kids gunning for IB singing the praises of Colgate for getting to IB (though Williams is considerably better for that).

The coach would not have begged, the top NESCAC schools have plenty of Patriot League caliber kids as options for pretty much any sport except Lax and Hockey. They get some of those as well. Mine turned down Colgate, Lafayette, and HC for a NESCAC. They would have been a freshman starter at HC.

And, the Professor comment is just so stupid that it needs no commentary.

Scholarship could have happened because Athletic money exists in the Patriot League. Did it happen for this poster.....nah. [/quote]

holy cow - get a life - the neurosis that causes some people to attack other posts on this site is mind boggling - and likely fueled by the anonymity [/quote]

Sure Karen

The problem with this site it that there is far too many people who confuse their feelings with fact. [/quote]

nah - the real problem are the deeply troubled and delusional folks who assume they alone get to define truth and falsehood for everyone else[/quote]

Yes, just like the LACs bolsters. For them, lacs are the greatest thing ever and other public universities are fir plebs,  too humongous for their snowflakes,  too large classes, they don't go on to phds and MDs like lacs, and award or prizes cannot even compare since per student figure is the only figure worth discussing, lacs are the only institutions teaching critical thinking, etc.

I could go on for ever but you get the idea. [/quote]

We don’t ’get the idea’ because your post is incoherent. [/quote]

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