Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:If your kid got into all of those schools RD, which would he pick?
at the moment, he doesnt have a front runner. he'll spend a lot more time this summer doing research. we've visited each.
Broaden up the scope in your campus visit to include at least a couple of national universities. Johns Hopkins for one, which has some significant ED1/ED2 advantage. Our schools sent a few ED there every year. Northwestern also has a top philosophy department, ED advantage is real there.
Sounds like OP’s kid is (wisely) seeking to ED1 to a school that he likes, not just looking for a prestigious school he can get into. If the kid has visited and liked SLACs, then he’s correct in focusing his ED1 choices on those schools.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:If your kid got into all of those schools RD, which would he pick?
at the moment, he doesnt have a front runner. he'll spend a lot more time this summer doing research. we've visited each.
Broaden up the scope in your campus visit to include at least a couple of national universities. Johns Hopkins for one, which has some significant ED1/ED2 advantage. Our schools sent a few ED there every year. Northwestern also has a top philosophy department, ED advantage is real there.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:For a lightly subscribed major such as philosophy, you may want to consider the size of the philosophy communities at potential choices. As a rough indicator for this, these are the numbers of graduating first majors in philosophy in a recent year (e.g., https://nces.ed.gov/collegenavigator/?q=Claremont+McKenna&s=all&id=112260#programs) for the schools you have named along with two others that have been suggested:
Hamilton: 11
Wesleyan: 10
Amherst: 8
Middlebury: 8
Pomona: 7
CMC: 6
Williams: 4
Bowdoin: 3
To add, here's the size of each college
Hamilton: 2053 (0.5%)
Wesleyan: 3000 (0.33%)
Amherst:1914 (0.4%)
Middlebury: 2800 (0.29%)
Pomona: 1732 (0.4%)
CMC: 1381 (0.4%)
Williams: 2101 (0.19%)
Bowdoin: 2044 (0.15%)
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:full pay
feeder private hs
3.8 most rigorous
male
humanities (philosophy) with EC/research to back up
1520
school leadership
unhooked
trying to narrow down ed1 .. like all right now.
williams, bowdoin, pomona, cmc.
feel good about Midd or Wes for ED2.
our naviance isn't very helpful because we have a lot of very hooked kids.
Pomona and Williams are not worth it for ed.
Anonymous wrote:williams, bowdoin, pomona do not provide any ED advantage. If WASP is your dream schools, just RD.
CMC, yes. Real ED advantage. If you are set on CMC, go ahead. Otherwise, no ED or find another ED school.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:If your kid got into all of those schools RD, which would he pick?
at the moment, he doesnt have a front runner. he'll spend a lot more time this summer doing research. we've visited each.
Broaden up the scope in your campus visit to include at least a couple of national universities. Johns Hopkins for one, which has some significant ED1/ED2 advantage. Our schools sent a few ED there every year. Northwestern also has a top philosophy department, ED advantage is real there.
For what reason? If the boy enjoys liberal arts colleges, no necessity to go to a research university, especially in a field like Philosophy. No one suggests LACs when people's lists are entirely Research universities.
OP said DC hasn't done campus visit yet, it's all very premature.
As long as it a good fit, I don't think one should care it's a lac or a research university.
Quite honest, I don't get it when folks say it's hard for one to love both Penn and Williams.
Anonymous wrote:williams, bowdoin, pomona do not provide any ED advantage. If WASP is your dream schools, just RD.
CMC, yes. Real ED advantage. If you are set on CMC, go ahead. Otherwise, no ED or find another ED school.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Why not the best liberal arts college in the country: Amherst College. I'm not even sure CMC has a philosophy program-definitely not at the level of Amherst-where students get into top grad schools every year
Best laugh of the day. Thanks, PP.
In the world of philosophy, Amherst’s name is worth gold. I don’t think grad schools even know what “Pamona” or Claremont men’s college are. Great maybe if you want to teach at cal poly or something.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Why not the best liberal arts college in the country: Amherst College. I'm not even sure CMC has a philosophy program-definitely not at the level of Amherst-where students get into top grad schools every year
Best laugh of the day. Thanks, PP.
Anonymous wrote:full pay
feeder private hs
3.8 most rigorous
male
humanities (philosophy) with EC/research to back up
1520
school leadership
unhooked
trying to narrow down ed1 .. like all right now.
williams, bowdoin, pomona, cmc.
feel good about Midd or Wes for ED2.
our naviance isn't very helpful because we have a lot of very hooked kids.
Anonymous wrote:Why not the best liberal arts college in the country: Amherst College. I'm not even sure CMC has a philosophy program-definitely not at the level of Amherst-where students get into top grad schools every year