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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]A lot of smart kids realize that the elite SLAC’s provide a better undergrad experience because that’s what they specialize in! Save Harvard and the Ivy’s for grad school and they are only too happy to take the WASP crowd!!![/quote]

Statistically that’s just not how it works, even if the elite SLACs are more undergraduate-focused than all the Ivies besides Dartmouth and Princeton.

I turned down both Amherst and Williams for an Ivy and it was both a tough call and an easy decision. Most in a similar position would still make the same choice. [/quote]
I'm not sure what your point is relative to the prior poster. I don't think anyone doubts that, given a choice, a majority of kids pick the top Ivy over the top LAC. But PP never claimed otherwise. PP opined that "a lot of" kids prefer undergrad-focused LACs over Ivies for undergrad. That's true, isn't it?

I suspect there are two camps of WASP applicants: (1) The self-selecting ones who, as PP mentioned, really appreciate the LAC experience and intentionally seek it out; and (2) the ones who likely prefer bigger, name-brand universities but nevertheless add WASP schools as a kind of backup to the T10-ish schools they're really aiming for. The second category probably outnumbers the former. But some actually prefer the WASP schools to the siren call of mainstream prestige.

I write that without judgment. As an 18-year-old, I probably would have fallen in the latter camp. As a world-weary adult, however, I appreciate my DC's adoption of the former. [/quote]

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