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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have no problem with attending a top 20 liberal arts college.  They’re clearly very strong schools.  It’s the silly CTCL schools that are a rip off and a con job.  [/quote]

How is a CTCL school any worse than a lower ranking State U?  Not everyone has the same capabilities and same needs.  CTCL is good for some folks and not fair to compare the T20.  They don’t claim to be T20.[/quote]

They claim to be special, but they’re not.  They’re average schools at best, at an above average price.  [/quote]

So what?  If people like them and can afford them (many give good merit aid), why do you care?  It seems you think there is only one path.[/quote]

So we agree then.  They’re not special.  [/quote]

NP. I don’t think there anything special about HYS and I went there. [/quote]

Job prospects. [/quote]

Ah, so we get to the heart of the matter. The obsessed anti-SLAC poster is a parent who is just now figuring out that paying for a big college doesn’t give her child the ticket into wealth that she had assumed she’d get. And she is freaking out, so rather pathetically hopes that denigrating SLACs in an anonymous forum will stop hiring managers from valuing SLAC degrees because she correctly understands that hiring managers don’t value big name degrees the same way any more. She also doesn’t understand that SLAC alumni networks are much, much tighter than what I had from HYS.

I have to say that I adore how petty she is in that she continually drops the S from SLAC in her posts because sometimes it stands for “selective” and that makes her blood pressure skyrocket. Very entertaining. [/quote]

There is more than one “anti” poster.  Just so you know that.  [/quote]

Sure, there are two of them, and they are both equally unhinged. But the one who can’t bring herself to type SLAC is particularly entertaining. [/quote]

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