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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]They sit in that odd in-between where they're lesser-known by the general populace, but are incredibly overhyped by those in the know.

No one cares about your Williams or Amherst or Swarthmore, and they're slowly but surely becoming increasingly irrelevant in today's higher ed landscape.[/quote]

Not really, graduates of the three schools you mentioned will have the same grad school and employment opportunities of an HYPS grad[/quote]

Keep hyping. They are not worth $80,000 per year in this age. [/quote]

Of all the schools that charge that much per year, I'd argue that LACs are the only ones worth the price tag.[/quote]

That's laughably untrue. If anything, technical schools (the MITs, Georgia Techs, Caltechs of the world) would be able to justify the price tag. The LAC boosters truly live in a world of their own.[/quote]

The technical schools do well in overall ROI, but that is due to the concentration of students in majors with high ROI, at least through early career.  You can major in STEM at other schools and get a similar return.

I would not argue that colleges are worth what they are charging these days, but I think I understand what they PP was saying.  Many colleges use undergraduate tuition to subsidize other things like graduate study and research activities.  LACs don't have those competing uses.  (I'm sure they suffer from administration bloat just like other schools, though.)

On the Niche website, they publish responses on survey questions, and one of those is the "percentage of students that feel like they are getting their money's worth out of their program."  LACs seem to perform noticeably better on average on that question than many larger universities.  [/quote]

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