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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I grew up with professor parents and was always told that picking among decent or good or excellent LACs isn’t about the work or education - you can get a good education at many schools or a crappy one. It’s much much more about the makeup of the student body. Who attends? Are those people the ones you want to be friends with? Your peers for life? [/quote]

Elitism.[/quote]

Fascinating that this is your take.

I had the opposite reaction.  My son attends an urban charter school and has been nudged by the college counselor to consider SLACs with very rich, very white student bodies.  Reading the previous post made me think "Do I really want him to be limited to only rich white kids as friends for the next 4 years?  As a white, somewhat wealthy kid, wouldn't he end up placed in the same box as his peers.  Maybe a large public school with a diverse student body would be better for him?

Just goes to show two people can read the same words and come away with very different interpretations of the subtext of those words!

Upon consideration, I suspect that your take is more likely than my own, but perhaps the poster can come back and say more about what they were thinking here.[/quote]

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