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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Another Midwesterner here. I’d say Northwestern, Notre Dame, Chicago, WashU and maybe Michigan. [b]Grinnell, Mac, Carleton, and Oberlin are good but much niche.  [/b]

When I was in high school (affluent suburb of Chicago - Glenbrook North - graduated in 1988) Washington University really wasn’t mentioned alongside Northwestern/ND/etc. But it’s definitely gotten really good since then. And UChicago was a place for really quirky, weird kids. Like, you didn’t apply there if you were remotely conventional. Seems like it still has pockets of that vibe today but also attracts far more of your typical UMC Ivy League gunner types.

Northwestern and Notre Dame were very strong then and still are. [/quote]

I agree.

Grinnell, oberlin  etc are not considered prestigious by people in the midwest.[/quote]

You can't compare SLACs with national universities.  They are different schools.  [b]Outside their immediate area, the general population has no idea what Williams, Pomona, Swarthmore, Amherst, Vassar, Oberlin are...  They may know what the Kardashians had for breakfast, lunch, dinner all last week; they may know Harvard and Yale; they may know Prince William and Prince Harry, but they wouldn't know Williams, Vassar..[/b]. [/quote]

So wrong.  Any person of reasonable intelligence knows which are the best universities and the best slacs.  Geography has nothing to do with it.  Certainly, your child may prefer a university feel to a SLAC feel but Yale Law admissions knows exactly what these schools are and are not. Superb SLACs are an excellent way into grad school.  Public universities are. Ivy universities are.  The important thing is to find the right fit at the right price and get in - which is getting increasingly more difficult. And then your child needs to work as hard as possible to build up the record they need for grad school.  Everyone in the campus counseling community knows that Carleton (SLAC) and U of Chicago are at the top of the heap and grade hard (as does Princeton).  The others you cite aren't even in the midwest so I don't know what you are yammering away about - except that you worked William and Harry in there (?) so you must be young.  Notre Dame is a prize only for Catholics.  Northwestern is not at the top of the heap.  Washington is not a SLAC[/quote]

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