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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Admissions rep.from Mt. Holyoke asked me where we summered. Nope. Not gonna fit in there. [/quote]

:D [/quote]that’s odd, as Mt Holyoke has a big international population, and it’s not all rich kids like some of the colleges courting foreign tuition.[/quote]

Do you think that a lot of poor college students from other countries wind up at one of the original 7 sister colleges? I heard about one who had to be taught how to do laundry because in her home country, this task was handled exclusively by servants. (Though, I understand in many countries that is much more common than here).

But yeah, MHC is not notorious for having privileged kids. I would say Conn and Middlebury are worse for that. [/quote]

Agreed, though it was an American girl that set the washer on fire when I was there. She put too much in it; had never done laundry before. This was a while ago, and i'd say the privilege level is reduced now. This is all an aside. It's ranked high for best classroom experience.[/quote]

Parent of a student at what was a Seven Sisters college (no longer). All those colleges actively court international students and don't care about whether those students have money. And all the students my DC has encountered, even American kids from privileged backgrounds, know how to do laundry for themselves. Times have changed. The super privileged students, wherever they're from, would be embarrassed now to be ignorant about laundry--even if they usually didn't do it at home! [/quote]

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