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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]At the top 10-15 SLACs (remove military academies), the kids are Ivy-smart but more interesting, more academic, and less performative than the Ivy kids.  Together, that puts all these colleges above the Ivies for an undergraduate experience.

Ivies excel at graduate and professional school. Did you know that most of Harvard’s endowment contributions come from HBS and HLS, not the plain undergraduates?[/quote]

This is an optimistic take. I don't think students at Vassar and Hamilton are the same as those that choose Princeton and Yale.

For bright non-STEM students, Williams and Pomona definitely compete with top 20 schools for students. And Bowdoin sometimes too. Harvey Mudd will get good STEM kids that want the SLAC experience. But otherwise? These are different student populations.

And no one knows what Amherst is doing these days. Seems to be FGLI and rich prep schools today. So hard divides with no attempt to make a coherent whole. I wouldn't put Amherst in any kind of category today. [/quote]

Pomona is nothing special relative to any of 9 or 10 other SLACs. Neither is Bow, Williams, or Amherst.[/quote]

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