No stereotypes for any of them as far as I know, though many say "bright and motivated" to me. UVA would be my last choice personally, but I'm hopeful my kids will pick the small liberal arts privates in the NE - I prefer the culture and environment at a place like Bates and Amherst. Amherst is insanely hard to get into so PP who claimed they're all for rich kids with bad grades knows nothing about NE colleges - disregard that negativity.

My co-workers and neighbors don't discuss colleges. A reasonable person uses a filter along with research to sift through information.

Anonymous wrote:This again.

+1. It's a drag, and I believe just based on the subject title that it screams troll. Why would any normal and reasonable person ask for stereotypes of schools. Fraud, big time.

Tulane seems to have morphed a lot post-Katrina. Less southern frat/sorority-dominated, more community engagement. Academically quite good, and they give huge merit scholarships that have lured some top students at my DD's high school (including NMSFs and kids in very top academic tracks who turned down Duke, Dartmouth, Hopkins to go to Tulane and have not regretted it)

... expensive.

Tulane has offered hefty scholarships to good students. I know someone offered full tuition there, but she chose an Ivy league school and debt.

I work with a young woman who graduated from Tulane. She is top notch in every way.

All these are fine schools, filled with smart kids and offering excellent educational opportunities. If you're not full pay, it may not be any more expensive to send your kid to one of them than to an in state school. And certainly the experience of being at a SLAC is different from a large university, and for some kids one is far more desirable than the other. Wellesley and Duke, for example, have almost nothing in common.

Stereotype or truth: "Barnard is a great choice if you can bear attending a college most of your peers (sometimes employers) have never heard about."

Anonymous wrote:Help me to help my daughter. I don't know the stereotypes about the following schools:

Amherst
Barnard
Colby
Wellesley
Tulane
Tufts
Bates
UVA
Duke

Thanks.

Maybe you can best help your daughter by gathering actual information instead of relying on stereotypes?

Wellesley has produced two Secretaries of State and probably a president. But you're right. It's a worthless institution compared to Duke . . .

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Are you people insane? Wellesley is more than "okay".

OP, I sure hope you don't make any decisions based on what you read here.

plus 1.

Seriously.

Anonymous wrote:Help me to help my daughter. I don't know the stereotypes about the following schools:

Amherst
Barnard
Colby
Wellesley
Tulane
Tufts
Bates
UVA
Duke

Thanks.

New England Prep.

Anonymous wrote:Are you people insane? Wellesley is more than "okay".

OP, I sure hope you don't make any decisions based on what you read here.

plus 1.

Are you people insane? Wellesley is more than "okay".

OP, I sure hope you don't make any decisions based on what you read here.

Anonymous wrote:Help me to help my daughter. I don't know the stereotypes about the following schools:

Amherst
Barnard
Colby
Wellesley
Tulane
Tufts
Bates
UVA
Duke

Thanks.

Sorry but Colby is not considered to an academically strong school. Bates is OK, and Wellesley same.

UVA, Duke, Tufts and Amherst are the more academically challenging schools in this bunch. And can you really put Tulane in the same sentence? I don't think so, anyone I know who's gone there has been a mediocre student at best.