HYPSM or bust status chasing.

That's why.

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Anonymous wrote:Asian Americans don't SLACK.

:lol:

Because the majority of strong STEM schools are not SLACs, and a PP had it right, they don't want to pay $$$ for a SLAC.

LACs disproportionately send students to PhDs and MDs compared to research universities.

that's nice, but the majority of people in general don't get MDs or PhDs.

If you are going to make a point about stem excellence, most of them do require a terminal degree like those. So strong productivity corresponds to strong preparation.

Even the ones that don't, like CS, see better outcomes for elite slacs. A higher percent of students at Williams, Swarthmore, and Pomona work for FAANG after graduation than students at any public university.

People in Asia have never heard of SLACs. In many other countries "colleges" are for people who couldn't get into universities. Asians parents in America could explain the benefits of, e.g., Swarthmore to people back in the homeland until they were blue in the face, but the relative back home would pity them and snicker.

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Anonymous wrote:Asian Americans don't have to/want to pay 90K/year for the privilege of pretending their kids attend some exotic no-name small LAC.

Besides, public universities are cheaper and offer better STEM majors.

+1000

Asians have grit. We are strong and don't need the relentless coddling and hand-holding of Middlebury or Vassar.

Besides, UMD has much better STEM.

You don't know anything about the LAC experience

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Anonymous wrote:Asian Americans don't SLACK.

Because the majority of strong STEM schools are not SLACs, and a PP had it right, they don't want to pay $$$ for a SLAC.

LACs disproportionately send students to PhDs and MDs compared to research universities.

that's nice, but the majority of people in general don't get MDs or PhDs.

*send more

The top programs are heavily represented by LAC grads relative to their small size

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Anonymous wrote:Asian Americans don't SLACK.

Because the majority of strong STEM schools are not SLACs, and a PP had it right, they don't want to pay $$$ for a SLAC.

LACs disproportionately send students to PhDs and MDs compared to research universities.

Anonymous wrote:Asian Americans don't SLACK.

Because the majority of strong STEM schools are not SLACs, and a PP had it right, they don't want to pay $$$ for a SLAC.

For my husband and I, we don't want to spend that kind of money unless there are both hard benefits (top feeder to good outcomes and will ensure some sort of safety net for our kids) and soft benefits (wide recognition, perhaps useful for relationships). And this sentiment is shared amongst our friends who have kids going to college soon as well. Our "no questions asked" scenario would be if our kid got into HPSM, Caltech, Duke, Penn/Wharton, Yale, or Columbia. There are other schools that we'd likely pay for full as well, but we'd have to give a bit more thought. There are not many schools we'd think are worth it over UVA with in-state tuition, although the in-state is not on the cheaper end across the country (but justifiably).

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Top SLACs are as hard to get into as Harvard. Asian-Americans lack grades and money to get into them.

This is a joke.

Many people consider all SLACs to be below the top 100 national universities

Many people are ignorant. That doesn’t mean they are correct. Those who put in the time to research top schools know that there are some amazing SLAC options that are consistently “ranked” higher than their larger counterparts.