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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why are the obsessed anti/SLAC posters so obsessed?  It’s really sad.  If you think they are inferior, why are you threatened by them?  And why not be happy that those students aren’t taking up spots in the schools you covet?[/quote]

Why do the handful of obsessed SLAC posters write inaccurate descriptions of National Universities and often resort to insults and name-calling rather than discussing the realities ?

If LACs were so great, there would be more of them and fewer of the existing LACs would be in such dire financial situations.

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I am not that PP and I went to state schools and HYS so no personal experience with SLACs. I started reading this forum about a year ago. As a FYI, my kids aren’t at SLACS, except that now that I’ve been reading your obsessed posts on DCUM for awhile, I’m going to encourage my youngest to look at SLACs. Your posts are distinctive — you post ALL the time on any post even slightly related to SLACS — and over the past year or so have made me look a lot more deeply at SLACs because you sound so bizarrely jealous and unhinged. I figure there must be something really good for someone to be so bitter about not getting into one and to blanket the College forum so incessantly. Then I learned about the spectacular educational possibilities. So thanks for that education! I think my youngest will benefit![/quote]

Unigo is a good place to get direct feedback from students.

LAC obsessed people seem a bit over the top and unwilling to deal with the realities of small, rural, isolated schools.

Again if LACs were so great, there would be more of them and fewer would be suffering from inadequate funding.

Agree with another poster who notes that the top LACs are interesting--especially the Claremont schools and Barnard & top 10. [B]Larger schools offer more diversity and more options in every aspect of student life[/b].[/quote]

Look, I’m just telling you that as someone newish to this board and who wasn’t really looking at SLACs, your bizarrely over-the-top rants about SLACs have pushed me in the exact opposite direction as you intended, so maybe cool down the crazy-sounding posts a bit if you truly want people to not go to SLACs?

As an example, the bolded is absurdly over-the-top. For some students looking for certain experiences, it’s simply not going to be true. God knows HYS isn’t the paradise you seem to think it is for all students all the time, as an alumni.

Just stop being so weird and nutty if you want people to really not consider SLACs. You really aren’t doing your argument any favors. You come across as obsessed, bitter, and jealous, and anytime someone is that negatively entranced with something, to somebody who is coming to this as a neutral person, it makes the SLACs look better, not worse. [/quote]

Talk about bizarre - you appear to be assuming that you are arguing with only one poster when there are several posting the “anti” SLAC position right now.  And you are ranting and raving like a lunatic yourself.  Just because someone disagrees with you doesn’t mean they are bizarre. [/quote]

🤷‍♀️Look, I’m just telling you the experience of one neutral person who is coming to this as a fairly new person to this forum. You can take the input or not. You sound like a crazed jealous obsessive to someone who really hadn’t given SLACs much thought before reading DCUM. Thanks to the posts I’ve read here, I’m now looking more closely at SLACs for my youngest, and I like what I see so far.

Also I don’t get the person who is talking about the price. The kids I know who are going to lower-level SLACs have told me the amount of merit aid they get, and it’s substantial and certainly competitive with the state schools. Those are just the personal datapoints I have, but it doesn’t seem to be all that dramatically different in price.

Anyhow, I’ve said my piece here. Keep ranting away (I know you will), just know that you don’t sound reasoned and logical to a fairly new poster. [/quote]

I’m a different poster, and you really sound unhinged.  [/quote]

How so? I don’t see “unhinged” in any of that?[/quote]

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