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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Few people outside of Virginia and maybe a few of its neighboring states have ever even heard of Washington and Lee.[/quote]

And yet, W&L appears quite high on the USNWR and other national lists that people in California, Illinois and New Jersey read.  However can this be?   Could it possibly be your liberal bias shining through here?

Really, if you agree with PP's take, then it's only intellectually honest to have the same opinion -- 'nobody's heard of it' -- about several of the DCUM-sanctioned darlings of this forum:

Carleton
Grinnell
Macalaster
Claremont McKenna
Bates
Hamilton

and so on.  You know, tiny little schools in low-density zip codes.

The translation of PP's comment is actually "I wouldn't send my kid there and neither would my neighbors in Chevy Chase Sec. 5."  The business elite of Dallas probably say the same about Bowdoin.  [/quote]

Which is the point. My kid’s life goals do no include being a Southern “business elite”.

I think the issue with W&L vs Hamilton or Carleton is that you have to be in a very niche place to be able to say except “strong LAC”.  With W&L, it’s string SLAC with douchey frat boys.  We are literally sitting here as a family planning spring break college visits (aka, wander around campus and see what the buildings look like from outside). And I said very neutrally 3 minutes ago, “maybe we could see W& L since it’s nearby.”  To which DH promptly said “so we can send out daughter there to be rape. No.”  DD just rolled her eyes and said “Pass”.

[i]The stereotype about who goes there is there in a way it just isn’t for most SLACs. [/i][/quote]

Oh hor$e$h!t.  Oberlin is full of purple-haired theater geeks.  Middlebury? pot-smoking trustafarians.  Bates and Bowdoin = bookish Megs and Beths who write literary erotica late at night.   Hamilton is full of entitled Twitter jockeys preoccupied with atoning for their lawyer parents' sins.

See, we can write mean stereotypes all day about LACs!

Also, why is it acceptable for your pithy DH to casually claim that males at W&L are rapists?  That's a very serious accusation about a felony crime.

Anyway, your "point" was that "nobody" has "heard" of W&L outside of a couple of states.  That your teen doesn't want to tour doesn't refute that.  [/quote]

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