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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Here's a good reason to go to a SLAC: if your child is interested in STEM or a quantitative discipline but is not a prodigy, they would receive more resources and attention from faculty at a SLAC than at a HYPS where there are many prodigies. You can call this underachieving if you want but it works. Why join the #1 team if you're going to be on the bench the whole time?[/quote] I see what you're saying although I don't necessarily agree that all great non-HYPS colleges (NUs or LACs) are fallback schools for excellent students.[/quote] I wouldn't say that either, but someone who has been in the Romanian national math program from elementary school up, or a student who took calculous in 8th grade and had been taking college level math through high school, is not ending up at a SLAC. I knew both kinds of people at HYPS. And that's a GOOD thing from an average-excellent student's perspective.[/quote]
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