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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]By and large, the WASP LACs have much more in common than they do differences. There's not going to be meaningful distinction in academic quality, student quality, resources, etc. But I still think of them in pairs.

Williams and Amherst are older, more remote, have more sports culture, and skew a little toward pre-professionalism.

Swarthmore and Pomona are newer, adjacent to major cities, are a little more counterculture, and skew a little more academic.

Each school has special offerings that the others don't: Williams has tutorials, Amherst has the open curriculum, Swarthmore has the honors program, and Pomona has the 5C Consortium.

I think there are great reasons to pick one of these schools over another, but generalized prestige/quality isn't one of them. In any event, the type of kid who prioritizes prestige/branding is probably going to be more inclined to attend a T20 university over any LAC.

Last, ED will not offer much, if any, advantage at any of these schools. ED to one of them if it's your DC's unequivocal first choice; but don't do so just because you think you'll miss out on an advantage. In the last couple admissions cycles, high stats kids have done pretty well in RD. [/quote]

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Good summary but classifying S and P as “newer” is a little odd. 19th century.

Put Bowdoin in your W and A paragraph, where it fits perfectly.[/quote]

Jesus. Stop with trying to lump Bowdoin in with WASP. You sound pathetic. [/quote]
You mean WASP-B? I corrected your typo.[/quote]

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