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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]That was me.  I goofed.  My family member who went to Amherst would smack me.  Total brainfart.

I do maintain my other comments about Colgate.  My family is a bunch of northeasterners and the northern SLACS were all I ever heard about and I did go to a prep school in DC.  I also went to law school and met those SLAC grads on the other side (I went to large state U much to the horror of my parents and my prep school even though it was much better that some of the slacs my classmates went to.  But i digress...).

I just never heard Colby or Kenyon mentioned in the same breath as Colgate.  [b]Colgate was discussed by people considering Amherst, Williams, Davidson, Bucknell, Lehigh, etc.  Those people were hoping for Ivy but knew it wasn't likely.  Colby and Kenyon were mentioned by people who were also looking at Union and Gettysburg and Dickinson.  Totally different league of schools. [b]

I know I totally goofed and did a face palm as I was making dinner last night.  But I also checked US News and sure enough Colby is ranked higher than Colgate.  Things have changed a lot since I looked at school.

Not admitted to little 3 but also didn't apply.  Admitted to Mt. Holyoke, Lehigh, and Wake Forest but chose State U.  Go public schools!

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There's no way Bucknell & Lehigh are in the same league as Davidson, much less Amherst or Williams.  Colgate ( & Colby) are a notch above Bucknell/Lehigh but a notch below Davidson/Amherst/Williams. I'd rank Kenyon slightly below Colgate/Colby & slightly above Bucknell/Lehigh.[/quote]

Do you think these distinctions really matter all that much to employers or grad schools?  I don't -- and I went to Williams (and loved it), but parents, especially in this area, obsess about the long-term impact of differences in admissions selectivity.  A student graduating from any of these schools with a good transcript and resume will do very well.  [/quote]

I agree with your point about employers. However, I have to admit that PP nailed the distinctions between the colleges. The distinctions do serve as a pretty good reference when a student is trying to figure out where to apply based on having a distribution of reach and target schools. If you take a look at the Common Data Sets for each of these schools it really does validate PP's distinctions. [/quote]

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