Anonymous wrote:SMCM is a best kept secret. All of you snooty people can stay away from my alma mater The campus is beautiful. Most affordable waterfront property you'll ever live on.

Amen! +100000

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Anonymous wrote:SMCM is a best kept secret. All of you snooty people can stay away from my alma mater The campus is beautiful. Most affordable waterfront property you'll ever live on.

Spoken like a true SMCM alum.

We have to promise to say that every time we talk about St. Mary's before they'll give us our diploma.

Anonymous wrote:SMCM is a best kept secret. All of you snooty people can stay away from my alma mater The campus is beautiful. Most affordable waterfront property you'll ever live on.

Spoken like a true SMCM alum.

SMCM is a best kept secret. All of you snooty people can stay away from my alma mater The campus is beautiful. Most affordable waterfront property you'll ever live on.

School's only as good as kids who go there and professors who teach there. St. Mary has neither. I can't believe OP is comparing St. Mary with Bowdoin. Apples and oranges, OP.

Middle of nowhere. Middle of Trump country.

Because the people in the market for SLACs are not looking for a public school. Most people would prefer a research University. SLACs are preferred by the wealthy who have immature children they feel need sheltering.

It is in the middle of nowhere and a 2 hour drive to civilization without buses or anything else

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Anonymous wrote:Isn't it a College That Changes Lives?

OP here. Yes, but why are the stats so low? Why don't I hear about people clamoring to go? With all the threads on Bowdoin and how am I going to pay for this SLAC or that SLAC, why isn't St. Mary's ever a contender? I just don't get it.

Because a lot of people incorrectly regard state SLACs as inferior to big flagships. It's a lovely school and a great fit for a lot of high stats kids who are looking for community and rigor vs. the rah rah atmosphere.

Anonymous wrote:Isn't it a College That Changes Lives?

OP here. Yes, but why are the stats so low? Why don't I hear about people clamoring to go? With all the threads on Bowdoin and how am I going to pay for this SLAC or that SLAC, why isn't St. Mary's ever a contender? I just don't get it.

Isn't it a College That Changes Lives?

because slacs beyond a select few are overrated, overpriced, and out of fashion

It's kind of an ugly campus, just like UMD, but also in the middle of nowhere.

UMD offers everything St. Mary offer plus more. Kids with higher stats usually pick UMD over St. Mary's.

I can't figure it out. It's a public SLAC, but stats are lower than Maryland, and it's the designated honors college of Maryland. I would think that people looking for a SLAC would think that it's a find. And don't say the location. Some of these SLAC in New England and Ohio are in the middle of nowhere.