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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Sure, I guess. But with such extraordinarily selective schools, who really cares?[/quote]

Williams and Amherst, and many other SLACS, are fantastic schools but they would rank lower than any of the Ivies in a head to head competition due to the lack of comparable science and engineering resources.  They aren't really comparable which is why they are separately ranked. [/quote]

Totally agree. Williams and Amherst can't compare with the ivy league because virtually all of them are much larger research institutions. The academic resources of Princeton/Harvard/Cornell/Penn are light years ahead of Williams and Amherst.[/quote]

Those academic resources are not available to undergrads. TAs and untenured lecturers do most of the UG teaching at larger research institutions.

Of the four mentioned above, only Princeton requires all tenured professors to teach at the undergraduate level. Most large institutions have big name profs who only do research and teach/advise graduate students.

For teaching critical thinking and genuine investment in u derhraduate education, few Ivies can beat SLACs.[/quote]

lol these coping LACers. Nobel prize winners routinely teach at Harvard and ivies along with other faculty.

32 pages has cemented to me why LACs like amherst and williams are 50% test optional with shit 40% yield. No one with actually good choices wants to go. Only the dumb ivy rejects go.[/quote]

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