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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The opportunities are nowhere near competitive enough. DD was able to work at Yale law during the summer and get funding to examine legal theory across 5 different countries with an experienced, decorated law faculty member. During the school year, she has a grant to do bioethics policy work with a New York think tank that reached out to Yale for students, leads a club where she’s able to invite major speakers in ethics and other philosophy faculty, and was able to take a course in the SOM to fulfill her interest in bioethics. At Williams, she could’ve gone to class and taken a wide range of philosophy courses unrelated to her interest and maybe joined/started a club.

Her friends at LACs are academically impressive but that’s about it. They don’t have the experiences that signal impact. At best, they can get into an REU hosted at an institution like my daughters.[/quote]

You have to be out of your mind if you think that top SLAC students don't get summer opportunities equal to those at ivies. Often they do research at Ivies, taking seats that I am sure some Ivy parent felt belonged to their child. My kid did a research summer at Penn. She got it because a Penn reached out to her inquiring about interest. They reached out because their SLAC professor got their PHD at Penn and they sent an unsolicited email suggesting my kid. That is what you get at a top SLAC.[/quote]
Or you could go to Penn and get these offers all the time.[/quote]

Probably not because you were taught by a TA who really didn't care and the professor doesn't know you or really care to. But that same professor will do a solid for a former star from their lab.[/quote]
Oh, so you’re just jealous and couldn’t get into an Ivy. It’s really embarrassing seeing people guess the experiences at these colleges and be so far off.[/quote]

I did my undergrad at a public and went to an Ivy for grad school. It's not a guess at all.[/quote]
My kid goes to Penn and doesn’t get taught by tas almost ever. When were you last at Penn? This has not been his experience and seems purposefully distorted.[/quote]

So we know your kid is in the humanities, okay. [/quote]
He does mathematics…? What is going on with the parents here?[/quote]

The whole “your kid is only taught by TAs” is just a lazy but common trope from LAC boosters here.[/quote]
Agreed. I’ve only heard this stereotype on here, because it just isn’t true. I guess they run off of people’s naivety?[/quote]

Nice try, there are enough comments by former grad students, current professors, people have experienced both environments who have written sincere comments (as opposed to the normal nonsense, you can tell the difference) that outline what things are actually like. It may not be true for every school, in every major but the common experiences and themes don't exist in a vacuum.[/quote]
And I can claim to be a unicorn, doesn’t mean it’s real, just because someone says it authoritatively.[/quote]

It’s also easily refuted by course listings at any schools that have them available.[/quote]
+1, ivies have tenure track faculty teaching. I don’t know where this lie started.[/quote]

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