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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There have been other threads you can find. There are some haters.

My kid is there. I think the campus is quite pretty, and it’s actually in a nice coastal area. It’s not as well-appointed as some schools with a lot more money, like Williams or Bowdoin. It has a friendly vibe, and my kid is very happy.

They give pretty significant merit aid (or what some insist on calling tuition discounts).  I think up to about $40K a year for kids with top stats.  In my view that makes it a better deal than some [b]slightly higher ranked schools[/b] that offer no such aid (think Bates, Colby, [b]Hamilton, Vassar[/b]). [/quote]
For those who consider U.S. News rankings, 37 places would not seem to be slight.[/quote]

Dp. Oh please. Do you really think anyone cares about these numbers irl? I went to a T15 SLAC and I can tell you that no one thinks any more or less of me than someone from a T40 SLAC. [/quote]
A poster brought up rankings, characterizing a difference as "slight." Another poster used rankings as the basis for her reply. If you view 37 places as slight or irrelevant, that's up to you, should you have bothered to address the actual point. In any case, you apparently have adhered to rankings in your characterization of your own school as a T15 SLAC, in that it only can be defined as such through a ranking, although you left your source unspecified. [/quote]

My obvious point was that I don’t particularly view the rankings as meaningful as others do. I’m around hiring all the time, and 99 percent of the people I work with would think little of the difference between Bowdoin and Conn College, as example, although on here you will see people get frenzied over the difference between the two of them. Maybe they’re idiots but if they are, they make many of the hiring decisions for my F100 company. And yes I mentioned my school as an observation point. My school acc to US News is typically within the top 15 although sometimes it’s dropped to top 10. I’ll note that my older dc were both spammed constantly by most of the Top 15 schools which makes me curious why they need to do that. One of my dc was in their stats range, but one clearly was not. [/quote]

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