Anonymous
Post 11/07/2025 07:53     Subject: The Williams Prestige
I didn’t choose Williams for its famous people. I chose it because it was so warm, friendly and nurturing. And the Berkshires setting is beautiful. This was several decades ago. I guess times have changed and people are looking at different things.
Anonymous
Post 11/07/2025 07:50     Subject: The Williams Prestige
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Sondheim makes it forever relevant.

Mayor of NY - Bowdoin. Transition team - 80% LAC grads, including Lina!

I don't know what you're on about. Only 2 of the people on the team went to a liberal arts college-Lina Khan, Williams and Melanie Hartzog, Eckerd.

I also don't know anyone who associated Sondheim with Williams college; he, frankly, had much more interesting affiliations and work done that has little connection with Williams college.


I def associate Sondheim with williams. Who wouldn't? He started Williams as a Math major and credited the place with his move to music. He wrote at least one musical while there.
Anonymous
Post 11/07/2025 01:02     Subject: The Williams Prestige
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:It is superior to every ivy that isn’t Princeton. Williams has always been extremely elite


That may have been true 30 years ago, but not so much today. There has been a lot of separation between the top universities and the SLACs in recent decades.


I am very confident that you are basing this comment solely on your ignorance rather than any real world objective criteria.


Williams, Amherst, Swarthmore, and Pomona COMBINED get fewer applicants than Vanderbilt or Brown or Rice or Northwestern or Penn does. And schools like Berkeley and Michigan get ten times the number of apps that any WASP does.

It's a very small subset of students that apply to Williams. So it's not a great indicator of where smart students go today. The numbers are too tiny to be significant.


And all of the schools you listed get fewer applications than BU ... what's your point?


+1
Anonymous
Post 11/07/2025 00:04     Subject: The Williams Prestige
Anonymous wrote:Sondheim makes it forever relevant.

Mayor of NY - Bowdoin. Transition team - 80% LAC grads, including Lina!

I don't know what you're on about. Only 2 of the people on the team went to a liberal arts college-Lina Khan, Williams and Melanie Hartzog, Eckerd.

I also don't know anyone who associated Sondheim with Williams college; he, frankly, had much more interesting affiliations and work done that has little connection with Williams college.
Anonymous
Post 11/06/2025 23:38     Subject: The Williams Prestige
Sondheim makes it forever relevant.

Mayor of NY - Bowdoin. Transition team - 80% LAC grads, including Lina!
Anonymous
Post 11/06/2025 23:37     Subject: The Williams Prestige
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:It is superior to every ivy that isn’t Princeton. Williams has always been extremely elite


That may have been true 30 years ago, but not so much today. There has been a lot of separation between the top universities and the SLACs in recent decades. [/quote
Fact is outside NE no one knows about it and applies to it


this was also true 30 years ago. it was MORE true 30 years ago
Anonymous
Post 11/06/2025 21:02     Subject: The Williams Prestige
Anonymous wrote:There are a lot of Williams grads who went nowhere.

- Williams grad who went nowhere


But they loved Williams.

I was jealous because I was not in love with my college.
Anonymous
Post 11/06/2025 20:56     Subject: The Williams Prestige
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:It is superior to every ivy that isn’t Princeton. Williams has always been extremely elite


That may have been true 30 years ago, but not so much today. There has been a lot of separation between the top universities and the SLACs in recent decades. [/quote
Fact is outside NE no one knows about it and applies to it


What? I lived 1100 miles away from Williamstown 30 years ago when I was applying to college, and I had heard of Williams.
Anonymous
Post 11/06/2025 20:45     Subject: The Williams Prestige
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:It is superior to every ivy that isn’t Princeton. Williams has always been extremely elite


That may have been true 30 years ago, but not so much today. There has been a lot of separation between the top universities and the SLACs in recent decades.


I am very confident that you are basing this comment solely on your ignorance rather than any real world objective criteria.


Williams, Amherst, Swarthmore, and Pomona COMBINED get fewer applicants than Vanderbilt or Brown or Rice or Northwestern or Penn does. And schools like Berkeley and Michigan get ten times the number of apps that any WASP does.

It's a very small subset of students that apply to Williams. So it's not a great indicator of where smart students go today. The numbers are too tiny to be significant.


And all of the schools you listed get fewer applications than BU ... what's your point?
Anonymous
Post 11/06/2025 20:06     Subject: The Williams Prestige
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:It is superior to every ivy that isn’t Princeton. Williams has always been extremely elite


That may have been true 30 years ago, but not so much today. There has been a lot of separation between the top universities and the SLACs in recent decades.


I am very confident that you are basing this comment solely on your ignorance rather than any real world objective criteria.


Williams, Amherst, Swarthmore, and Pomona COMBINED get fewer applicants than Vanderbilt or Brown or Rice or Northwestern or Penn does. And schools like Berkeley and Michigan get ten times the number of apps that any WASP does.

It's a very small subset of students that apply to Williams. So it's not a great indicator of where smart students go today. The numbers are too tiny to be significant.
Anonymous
Post 11/06/2025 19:48     Subject: The Williams Prestige
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:What famous people have gone to Williams? I can think of a senator and a CNN anchor, and that’s about it. And neither of them are _that_ famous, all things considered.


Lina Khan - FTC chair, 2021-2025

She’s pretty unpopular and really doesn’t do much today.


lol!
Anonymous
Post 11/06/2025 19:01     Subject: The Williams Prestige
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:It is superior to every ivy that isn’t Princeton. Williams has always been extremely elite


That may have been true 30 years ago, but not so much today. There has been a lot of separation between the top universities and the SLACs in recent decades. [/quote
Fact is outside NE no one knows about it and applies to it
Anonymous
Post 11/06/2025 18:11     Subject: The Williams Prestige
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:It is superior to every ivy that isn’t Princeton. Williams has always been extremely elite


That may have been true 30 years ago, but not so much today. There has been a lot of separation between the top universities and the SLACs in recent decades.


I am very confident that you are basing this comment solely on your ignorance rather than any real world objective criteria.
Anonymous
Post 11/06/2025 17:50     Subject: The Williams Prestige
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:It is superior to every ivy that isn’t Princeton. Williams has always been extremely elite


That may have been true 30 years ago, but not so much today. There has been a lot of separation between the top universities and the SLACs in recent decades.


NP - is this your opinion or are there facts to support your claim?
Anonymous
Post 11/06/2025 17:47     Subject: The Williams Prestige
Anonymous wrote:It is superior to every ivy that isn’t Princeton. Williams has always been extremely elite


That may have been true 30 years ago, but not so much today. There has been a lot of separation between the top universities and the SLACs in recent decades.