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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Here is my issue with the CTCL organization: Its board is made up of mostly of reps from the schools it promotes. Its income consists of membership (marketing) fees from the schools it promotes. As a non-profit organization, its “services” consist of paying one person to go around the country and promote these schools. There is nothing amazingly different about most of these schools from the hundreds of other schools out there. Some are quite good but many are struggling financially and there are many with horrible graduation rates. Schools should be considered on an individual basis, not because they are part of an irrelevant list. [/quote]

+1. [b] CTCL feeds into the insecurity of parents whose kids can't get into Tier 1.[/b][/quote]

DC was accepted by several "Tier 1"  colleges but decided to attend Beloit, a CTCL school, instead.  Just a much better fit overall, excellent merit aid, had a fabulous experience and now in grad school.  DC's younger sibling has been attending a "Tier 1" for 2 years now and so far I'd say hands down Beloit is better academically.  Better professors.  Professors who actually know and care about the students in and outside of the classroom. And plenty of peers who were truly intellectually curious and ambitious without caring about status.  Did Beloit change my DC's life?  Who knows because DC probably would have been successful almost anywhere.  But I do know that at Beloit DC found a subject s/he loves to study, found professors who were excited to share their love of that subject with DC, found professors who opened doors to amazing research opportunities off campus and who gave (and continue to give) 100% support when connecting DC to alums in the same field, applying to jobs and grad school.  And none of that is a marketing gimmick.[/quote]

I also got a close-to-full-ride merit scholarship at a top Claremont college and went to Beloit instead -- no knock against the school I turned down, I just felt like I fit in more at Beloit. I now have a PhD. I was able to do research in my field, and even in my minor field, from my first semester. I also studied abroad for a year. It was a terrific experience.[/quote]

You can study abroad while attending virtually any college in United States. I did it, my spouse did it and all of my kids did it. None of us attended a CTCL.  Actually, all of us did, they’re just not in the silly book. [/quote]

Ok? Not my point? I was giving an example of my experience, not saying that only people who attend CTCL-colleges can study abroad.  
But, a lot of the CTCL are on this list, in case it matters: https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/rankings/most-study-abroad[/quote]

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