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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Williams and Amherst and Swarthmore are comparable to T12-18 private range. They have never had quite the same percentage of true top kids, partly because 1/3 of the student body is recruited. The intelligence of the top 1/3 is akin to the top 2/3 or so of most ivies (cornell pre-TO had SAT ranges lower than the other ivies). 
The LACs from #3 to 15 or so, inclusive of Claremont, Davidson, Wellesley, have student bodies that parallel the T18-30 range schools.

Below the T15ish LAC’s the quality of the average student drops fast and typically one would much better off at a good flagship[/quote]

Your reasoning is so random but that is what happens when people put so much stock in these rankings. Do top SLACs recruit a bunch of athletes? Sure. Are some of their GPAs and scores lower than the average accepted? Sure. But no more than, say, Harvard's institutional priorities - in 2023 43% of white students at Harvard are either legacies, recruited athletes, or the children of major donors. That is JUST white students. From our private HS, the average GPA accepted to Harvard last year was 3.64 - for Williams it was 3.87. Amherst has done away with legacy preference altogether. The comparisons you are making are meaningless - and if schools like Harvard have shown us anything in the past year, it is that money is more important to them than just about anything else. [/quote]

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