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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous] Op- Thanks for the detailed and very helpful insight! Did your DC apply to Brown ED? Stats similar to my DD’s or higher? [/quote]

Yes, he did apply ED. White male, unhooked, majoring in engineering. We realize he got very lucky, but he was also in the top 5% of a very competitive private school in a heavily underrepresented state (Appalachian area where few kids apply out of state). He had a 4.0 UW, 35 ACT and great ECs. I think you have some great suggestions here, I particularly like the poster who suggested Tufts, Wesleyan, Vassar, Oberlin, Rochester. I’ve visited all and agree these have a similar vibe/feel.[/quote]

DD looked at Wes, Vassar, Oberlin and Brandeis. Attends one of those. We looked at Case Western and hated it. It was so different than the other schools. Their info session focused on outcomes after college - no talk about the love of learning or liberal arts. Absolutely joyless. Seemed like a grinder school. We walked out early, so maybe the tour was better.[/quote]

At 99k per year and you are not interested in looking at outcomes?  You are either too out of touch or too ignorant.  [/quote]

It’s sad that you are struggling to understand my point. [b]Intellectual people want to be surrounded by peers that are similarly motivated by a [b]love of learning—not a bunch of strivers[/b] who are just trying to check a box and become an adult striver like you[/b]. [/quote]

Not the poster you are responding to.[b]...but lol if "striver" is what you refer to students going to college to get good jobs and have nice careers.    [/b]

Agree. One person uses that phrase on this board - you can tell they are lower socioeconomic class and likely racist since that term is used to denigrate Asian students.

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It is people in the higher socioeconomic class that is the word “striver” not lower socioeconomic class. The lower socioeconomic class ARE the strivers. The high socioeconomic class don’t need to strive or worry about ROI. They often go to school and major in Art History, Classics or Philosophy. They don’t need social mobility out of their degree—they are already rich, connected, and have generations of college degrees in their family. [/quote]

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