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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Richmond is a nice school, but W@L punches well above its weight and is a peer to Williams and Amherst in terms of being a target/semi-target for IB and MBB outcomes - solely based on rabid loyalty of alumni base, typically athletics driven.[b]  Amherst and Williams clearly much more prestigious and basically in a class of their own for SLACs[/b], but W@L bros and brahs are all over the street and at Bain, etc etc. Richmond does not have that prevalent sports culture that you find at the above mentioned schools which leads to this culture. Don’t believe me go to WSO site and type in the school names[/quote]
Actually, no they really aren't. Well, not if you're talking about finance. Adjusted for undergraduate size, top feeders to Wall Street in order of rank: Claremont McKenna, [b]Amherst, Williams,[/b] Middlebury (source: [url]https://www.collegetransitions.com/dataverse/top-feeders-banking[/url]), Top economics papers by authorship and publication in order of rank: [b]Williams,[/b] Wellesley, Claremont McKenna, Middlebury, Richmond, Colgate,[b] Amherst [/b](source: [url]https://ideas.repec.org/top/top.uslacecon.html[/url]). Even under pure cost/earnings analyses, with the addition of excluding colleges with engineering, they are not in a class of their own (source: [url]https://www.degreechoices.com/best-colleges/rankings/liberal-arts/[/url].)

When people identify Williams and Amherst in the way they do on DCUM, they're holding on to a long bias by USNews, because *surprise surprise* they're the wealthiest LACs. They do not dominate more than any other top lac, however, once you begin analyzing across outcomes, major publication, or feeding into lucrative industries this becomes clearer.[/quote]

i get it these two schools annoy people - but they clearly and objectively are the best - these are the only two schools my kids peer group at our NYC private would consider at Ivy level - and this “bias” ensures the tippy top kids keep applying and going there - no one from my kiddos schools would consider Washington and Lee or Richmond ever [/quote]

No one including UR defenders/boosters is claiming that UR is the equal of Amherst and Williams. So I don't really understand your point.[/quote]

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