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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]What's a "Boston College"?[/quote]

Is this sarcastic or have you really never heard of Boston College? You're like the PP who had never heard of Scripps...you guys need to do some serious research before you and your kids head into the college application process![/quote]

Not the PP, but calm down.  BC has certainly come up in the world, but it is not in the same league as the Claremont Colleges.[/quote]

LOL. Very few people on a easy coast know the Claremont colleges - they are regional. [/quote]

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Actually - no.  We are all from the east coast and DD's first choice two years ago was Claremont McKenna but she didn't get in.  Two kid's for DS's class are going to Pomona (I think) and Harvey Mudd.  There are big in the private school world maybe as they are very expensive and selective.   [/quote][/b]

I'm both a west coast and east coast person.  All educated people know about the Claremont colleges and its design to offer University-type services to five distinct colleges.  Money is pooled to create state of the art facilities like library and health center, but students apply to each college (very very walkable).  The child of a friend of mine coming in from Boston could not get into Claremont McKenna so accepted Scripps (all women) but is taking classes at Claremont mcKenna and will reapply every year until she gets in.  In my day, I got into Pomona, which is an xlnt school. Pitzer wasn't a serious contender then because they did not give grades, just teacher letters, and since I wanted to go onto law school, that concerned me.   The dorms were nicer at Scripps so I thought I would board there but take classes at then Claremont Men's College and Pomona.  I went to Stanford instead.  But I would rank Pomona and Claremont McKenna very high.[/quote]

Sadly, in my experience all educated people are definitely not familiar with the Claremont colleges--which is no reflection on the colleges' quality.  Word about SLAC's just doesn't get around--my Swarthmore and Williams friends say many employers haven't heard of their schools either.  I'm an East Coast academic and used to be a professor at a SLAC similar to those colleges on the East Coast--and even so I am only vaguely familiar with the Claremont schools and I didn't even know that they were some kind of consortium until I read that here.[/quote]

You sound moronic.[/quote]

LOL. Your response is getting old.  Sorry you can't accept it.  I grew up in a well-educated area of the NE.  My public HS was an Ivy factory.  A handful went to East Coast SLACs - most of the them were driven by family traditions rather than deep-rooted educational philosophies.  People only went out to the West Coast for Stanford, Berkeley, USC, UW, etc.

Ask a broad group of people from the East Coast and see who has heard of them.  I'm guessing a few people from SLACs, but that's it. Please report back when you've concluded your research.  :)

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SLACs are declining in popularity.  But I have never met anyone from the East Coast who went out West to UW.  That's a mediocre school at best.[/quote]

It may have been somewhat mediocre years ago. Not any longer. [/quote]

Incorrect.[/quote]

It is ranked 48. Wisconsin is ranked 47. A top 50 college is not mediocre.[/quote]

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