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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Safety schools for Ivy students. I don't understand the purpose of the liberal arts colleges, other than this purpose-ivy league rejects, who need a separate system to show off how intelligent they are, while signaling an embarrassing, crippling self-esteem issue.[/quote]

tremendous post - no one chooses Williams over an ivy, even cornell.  The pretentiousness at Williams is overwhelming- big big chip on everyone’s shoulder about how it’s just as good as ivy.  DC made it halfway thru tour, and we left.  Wound up at Vandy and luving life - [/quote]
But many many people do chose top LACs over ivies? Definitely more representative by percentage of pop than Vandy lmao. [/quote]

Many, many?  That isn’t even possible given how few kids actually attend the four lacs under discussion.[/quote]
Many for their populations, sure. Do you need a certain quota for it to be significant enough for you or what? It just seems really weird to pose that top LACs are ivy reject schools to then bring up and boost an alternative ivy reject school. DP.[/quote]

let me put it a different way - no one on earth has every uttered the following phrase “I turned down Williams for *** ivy” - and do you know why? because kids who actually choose to attend ivies never see Williams as an alternative, and never struggled with that decision.  Same can’t be said for 90%+ Williams undergrads.  Every athlete - which makes up between 35%-40% of the population at Williams - would have attended an ivy if they were good enough and recruited by and offered a spot by an ivy coach - that’s just a fact [/quote]

But it’s literally not a fact. [/quote]

I know right?
It depends on the ivy.
I don't think there are a lot of kids at WASP that wouldn't prefer to go to Yale or Princeton.  But I can see some of them picking WASP over Cornell.  Cornell is a huge school.[/quote]

Some kids visit one of these schools and just fall in love - as with my kid, who graduated with a 4.0, high rigor, 1580 SAT, from a very prestigious private school. She had three Ivy legacies between her two parents and assumed she would pick one of those to apply early to, until she visited Williams and suddenly didn't want to spend her four years of undergrad anywhere else. While it's true that many kids chase the "brand name" of Ivy+, and I totally get why they do, others decidedly do not and I think it's kind of silly to assume everyone has the exact same priorities.  [/quote]

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