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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Williams is great all around. Smith is a top women's college but on the decline. Never heard of Hobart.[/quote]

It’s a nice, respectable liberal arts college in a cute suburb of Rochester, New York. It’s a lot close to Toronto than to New York City. It gives out a lot of merit aid. 
No one who has no idea what Williams will have heard about it will have heard of it, and no one goes around hating various colleges will respect it, but most people who’ve gone through college guides will say, “Oh; that’s one of those great little colleges that was too far away for us to visit.” But I think that whole Buffalo-Rochester-Syracuse-Albany area is now a good place to look for nice, undervalued colleges.

Hobart and William Smith good for a rich student who wants a small, beautiful school and likes that area or can’t get into Williams-type schools, or for middle-income students who want a small, classy liberal arts school, get good merit aid, and have someone who understands college financial statements verify that the school will stay solvent.

My suspicion is that a lot of those schools are where they are partly because of efforts to protect the students from infectious illness. In the long run, those schools might have an easier time than big urban schools at keeping COVID under control and offering in-person classes. [/quote]
Re: COVID, this school will not even admit whether it is still mandating vax and booster. Admissions office gives different responses to different people. School deleted the COVID info from its website. For pete's sake, if you're going to mandate, then state that. Anything less is obfuscation.

The idea that a small rural school can "control" COVID any differently than a large school is not reality. It is not "controllable," as most schools in other parts of the country have long understood. But sure, low-ranked schools should go ahead and mandate, and see how enrollment is next fall.[/quote]

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