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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I went to Princeton and I'm a SLAC convert for my kids. When I've gone back I've been struck by how preprofessional the student body has become, how everyone seems to be gunning for a job in finance or business. That was not the case at all when I was there. And visiting SLACs when my DC was looking was an eye opener for me in terms of how much access students have to professors, how intellectually rich the classrooms and atmosphere were. It was a learning dream and I'm jealous. Which is to say, if it were me I would totally pick Swarthmore over Princeton. The only thing Princeton has over Swarthmore is prestige and thats just not important to me.[/quote]

I've seen you post the same thing before here.  FWIW, I graduated from Princeton years ago and, even at the time, there were numerous students trying to line up interviews with Goldman, Merrill, Lehman (LOL), etc.  But I also had classmates who went on to become professors, journalists, authors, researchers, high school teachers, actors, musicians, public defenders and Supreme Court justices.  Princeton helped them make that happen.

I really don't know whether you'd find the same range of outcomes at SLACs.  I was very torn between going to Williams and Princeton, but the opportunity to study at a school with more resources and a greater breadth of programs to explore ultimately won out.  I'm sure Williams would have been great in different ways.  But I don't buy for a second the notion that a Williams or Swarthmore is more "intellectually rich" than Princeton (except, perhaps, in how their alumni like to portray themselves) or that everyone at Princeton or any other Ivy today is "gunning" for a finance job.   You are giving the old-timers too much credit, and the current students too little.      [/quote]

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