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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]When you folks pontificate about one school or department being better than another school or department, do you really know what you’re talking about? I mean, do you really have a reasonable basis for such opinions that isn’t based on USNWR or internet gossip? The confidence with which y’all make such statements seems directly correlated to the lack of serious thought behind them. [/quote]
With lacs, some schools fund their departments better than others. There’s pretty clear resources someone can point to about Kenton’s creative writing program or Williams’s math program that they can’t say the same for another college.[/quote]
No one here is knowingly relying on funding as a basis for distinguishing between different schools' departments. Because know one here actually knows such things, much less is capable of conducting a sophisticated comparative analysis that disaggregates for variables like student size, etc. But you're welcome to prove me wrong by at least citing to any reliable source showing the specific funding for either Kenyon's creative writing program or Williams's mathematics department.

And even if I granted you this point, it doesn't exactly apply here where people are delivering categorical proclamations distinguishing between extremely similar schools (e.g., WASP, Bowdoin, CMC, etc.). [/quote]
You brought up funding out of nowhere.

[b]No other LAC[b] has SMALL reu or the Kenyon Review. Those are competitive resources. Another example for us was the fine arts resources at the Claremont Colleges surpassed many peers because they had access to 2 ceramics studios and multiple wood workshops and mudd’s machine shop. Colorado College’s block plan allows for various study abroad opportunities integrated with courses.

Middlebury - New England Review and Breadloaf Quarterly.

Kenyon is great for writing but there are others.
I think this is there point though. Most LACs don’t have a review.[/quote]

That is not what they said.[/quote]
That is exactly what I said. The point is that some schools have resources others don’t have. I don’t know why you’re still combatting this truth.[/quote]

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