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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yes,  more please if you all are willing to share!  I am interested in the “colleges that change lives”[/quote]

Hate this, it is nothing more than a marketing campaign for small privates with declining enrollments.

Graduating from college is a game changer, period.  And if you think the Ivies just perpetuate the status quo, you are incredibly uninformed as to who is getting into the Ivies today.[/quote]

Yes, because the Harvard professor who wrote it was in marketing.   :roll:

Many of the CTCL such as e.g. Denison are becoming more, not less competitive.[/quote]

All colleges are becoming more competitive, but clearly the CTCL nonsense was an effective marketing campaign.[/quote]

As a family of a student attending a CTCL school we feel fortunate to have our child spending their college years at what we perceive to be a nurturing environment.

So not sure why the animosity but as a parent of a CTCL student, I will say that the marketing program broadened my horizons and made me and my DC more comfortable exploring small liberal arts colleges. And as we began exploring them we realized that for one of our DCs they were a good fit. We have another child that, while we like the CTCL/SLAC (S for Small) model, is at a state flagship because a small school would not have been the right fit. And I suspect for my youngest who is still in HS I will encourage her to look at the CTCL/SLAC schools.

As for the Ivies, and most of the true elites,  it has been my experience that the student body is very much bifurcating. If you are full pay, ED and/or a recruited athlete applicant, with good stats you have a good shot and if you are a URM you have shot. If not one of the above, it's not happening. So then why not shop value and there are a bunch of categories for that: privates like Tulane that are not tippy top but will offer money, some of the large flagships that will offer instate rates to strong OOS candidates, and some of the SLACs - especially one's ranked 30 and below. And if you can attend a small CTCL/SLAC for close to instate public tuition rates - well then for a large segment that's a good fit and a good deal.
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