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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I went to W&L on a full academic schorlarship.  I was literally the "son of a CEO" (as a PP so grossly phrased it)  and from the south, and I hated it.  I pledged a fraternity, went through initiation and never set foot in the place again after being initiated.

Too much drinking, too much racism, too little critical thinking.  Just all around gross.

For kids who need college paid for, it might make sense, but it's an uphill slog for any thinking kid.[/quote]

Someone should let the brilliant kids there know that you don’t approve. Sorry you weren’t capable of taking advantage. Sounds like a you problem. My 2014 grad is in a fully-funded PhD program and her entire friend group is bright and absurdly accomplished.

OP, dopes like this won’t help you. Visit the three schools and see what you think. The student profiles are very similar and there are very few kids at any school in this category who aren’t smart and capable and ambitious. See where they send graduates. Look at outcomes. [/quote]

The Good Old Boys Club drives much of the "outcomes" and those "outcomes" are reserved for the right type of person.  I will leave it to the OP to decide if they would be a beneficiary or even want to be a beneficiary of that arrangement.  For most, it is a bait and switch.

All 3 schools are fine institutions but only 1 has the pictures of 2 slaveholders (Washington and Lee) on the diploma.  And as recently as earlier this year, doubled down on keeping them there.

https://www.wlu.edu/the-w-l-story/leadership/office-of-the-president/messages-to-the-community/2019-20-academic-year/response-to-diploma-petition/
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Who’s going to tell genius that Hamilton owned slaves?[/quote]

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