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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I know Emory is a good school, but is it really all that impressive? Its high ranking is more due to Coca Cola fortune and endowment than academics or academic reputation.

Middlebury is one of the best SLACs in the country. [/quote]
Emory is much better than Middlebury, a true shmuck would send their child to Miss if they also got into Emory.

With that said to answer OP's question the top 10 LAC's would be equal to the top 30 Unis. The times/wsj ranking combines both unis and lacs into the same ranking and Williams and Amherst are just outside the top 20. [/quote]

All that is wrong.  Though grads from both schools probably know how to spell "schmuck."[/quote]
It's not wrong there's  a reputable ranking that combine both unis and Williams and Amherst are right outside the top 20. Maybe 50 years ago Middlebury was better but today not a chance, most teens would choose Emory. [/quote]

I think the reverse actually.  Most kids today would choose Middlebury or Tifts over Emory.  There is not a lot of buzz around Emory.[/quote]

They would choose Middlebury if they want to be on a campus that has a small strip of restaurants and stores, and nothing else around until you get to Burlington, Lake George, Albany or Boston. Nothing wrong with that, it is what it is.[/quote]

Kids go to Middlebury to ski. You are obviously not a skier. [/quote]

Its funny how people around here know nothing about the New England boarding school culture. There are tens of thousands of kids in boarding schools in New England, and that doesn't even count the gazillions in days schools in Connecticut or all the kids in New York and New Jersey. The pipeline from those schools to the SLACs and LACs in New England and upstate New York and Pennsylvania is HUGE--plenty of those kids go to the Ivies, sure, but they aren't going to places like UNC or Sewanee or SMU, they are often going to go to smaller schools in more rural settings like the ones they are used to and that their parents and grandparents went to. And gives cachet to those schools to the public school kids from those areas, which is why they still attract lots of applicants.  [/quote]

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