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[quote=Anonymous]No, I don't have a clone.  I have a parent with whom I share many similarities who believes (and I agree) that he'd have had a better education had he gone to school where I did (and he refused to believe that before I went -- he became convinced as he saw the effects of that education on me).  And, as luck would have it, I actually did take classes (film, philosophy, world lit, Latin, pol theory) both at a CC and at a good state school prior to attending Harvard.  So, yes, I do have an empirical basis for the judgment I'm making.

Re Swarthmore and Pomona.  The only claim I've made about LACs is that, for objectively verifiable reasons (things like course offerings and size of faculty), what I found appealing about Harvard is something I wouldn't have experienced at a LAC.

No one asked (nor did I opine) re which education is "superior." People want different things from college, and people learn in different ways.  They also have different interests, abilities, aspirations, and work ethics.  So choose a school that gives you what you need or want.  But recognize that other people will see and value differences in schools that go beyond ROI or job placement or connections or prestige.[/quote]

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