Anonymous
Post 07/11/2025 06:37     Subject: Small classes, top academics, w rich kid vibe?
You mean the University of Spoiled Children?
Anonymous
Post 07/10/2025 20:14     Subject: Small classes, top academics, w rich kid vibe?
Anonymous wrote:Colleges with the highest percentage of students from the top 1% (also with excellent academics):

Wake Forest
Amherst College
Georgetown
Dartmouth
Trinity College
Colorado College
SMU
Vanderbilt
Middlebury
Colgate
Wash U



Can you cite a Source? I’m surprised USC is on it.
Anonymous
Post 07/10/2025 20:10     Subject: Small classes, top academics, w rich kid vibe?
"Striver" has such racist undertones.
Anonymous
Post 07/10/2025 19:18     Subject: Small classes, top academics, w rich kid vibe?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Just Google the USNWR Pell grant list and choose a school at the bottom. Don’t forget to yell into the internet void when your school drops in rank, though.


Can you list those schools at the bottom???


Starting from the lowest:

Alliant International (3%)
Fairfield (4%)
Wake Forest (9%)
Tulane (9%)
Palm Beach Atlantic (9%)
Elon (9%)
Creighton (10%)
Santa Clara (11%)
Samford (11%)
Georgetown (11%)
Anonymous
Post 07/10/2025 18:56     Subject: Small classes, top academics, w rich kid vibe?
Colleges with the highest percentage of students from the top 1% (also with excellent academics):

Wake Forest
Amherst College
Georgetown
Dartmouth
Trinity College
Colorado College
SMU
Vanderbilt
Middlebury
Colgate
Wash U

Anonymous
Post 07/10/2025 18:54     Subject: Small classes, top academics, w rich kid vibe?
Anonymous wrote:Just Google the USNWR Pell grant list and choose a school at the bottom. Don’t forget to yell into the internet void when your school drops in rank, though.


Can you list those schools at the bottom???
Anonymous
Post 07/10/2025 17:48     Subject: Small classes, top academics, w rich kid vibe?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Duke, WashU, Vandy, Georgetown

Avoid Emory, CMU, Cornell, Chicago. Striver alert.


Agree with the first 4 listed schools, but do not understand the second list's inclusion of Cornell & CMU.


I agree. CMU has high number of rich international kids.
Anonymous
Post 07/10/2025 17:37     Subject: Small classes, top academics, w rich kid vibe?
Not really SLACs but in addition to Davidson, the schools for rich kids I think of:

Bowdoin
Northwestern
Vandy
SMU
USC (so cal, not Carolina)
Pepperdine
Georgetown
Anonymous
Post 07/10/2025 17:33     Subject: Small classes, top academics, w rich kid vibe?
Pomona or Harvey Mudd
Anonymous
Post 07/10/2025 17:30     Subject: Re:Small classes, top academics, w rich kid vibe?
Univ of Richmond
Anonymous
Post 07/10/2025 17:28     Subject: Small classes, top academics, w rich kid vibe?
Villanova (a lot harder to get into these days, rich kids)
Anonymous
Post 07/10/2025 17:16     Subject: Small classes, top academics, w rich kid vibe?
Any NESCAC school.
Anonymous
Post 07/10/2025 12:48     Subject: Small classes, top academics, w rich kid vibe?
Anonymous wrote:kid wants this but is ok w rich kids!

just wants serious academics.


Highest percent of high scorers with small classes, serious academics:

Ivies except Cornell (big classes), MIT, Stanford Duke Chicago CalTech Hopkins Northwestern Williams Amherst Swarthmore.
Anonymous
Post 07/10/2025 12:46     Subject: Small classes, top academics, w rich kid vibe?
Washington, Vandy, Wake, Emory. Elon for a less academic experience. G*dawful attitude at these schools.

Anonymous
Post 07/10/2025 12:46     Subject: Small classes, top academics, w rich kid vibe?
Just Google the USNWR Pell grant list and choose a school at the bottom. Don’t forget to yell into the internet void when your school drops in rank, though.