Anonymous
Post 01/09/2026 13:05     Subject: Why are WASP so elite?
One of Clarence Thomas’s Holy Cross classmate is one of the most high profile NYC attorneys. Gentleman just retired as a member of the Harvard Corporation governing board of the university. HC does quite well.

Anonymous
Post 01/09/2026 13:04     Subject: Why are WASP so elite?
Anonymous wrote:PP summed it up best. Long term hold on AWSP-B, buy Davidson and hold Wesleyan and Holy Cross. The Colby, Hamilton, Middlebury crowd is buying time with horrible non diverse rural locations. Turn the lights off on Conn College and Trinity.


The expression you failed to use correctly is "biding time," not "buying time." Maybe you would have learned proper English if you had attended a liberal arts college.
Anonymous
Post 01/09/2026 12:57     Subject: Why are WASP so elite?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I've never heard of anyone choose middlebury over cornell.


A kid in our town received offers to play football at Cornell, U Chicago, JHU, Wesleyan, and Carleton this fall and just committed to Middlebury. I don't want to post his name here, but he goes to St. Ignatius and you can find it on social media.



It's doesn't surprise me that it's an athlete. Middlebury is culturally the most athlete-friendly in this group.


True, plus you never know about the financial aid offers.
Anonymous
Post 01/09/2026 12:52     Subject: Why are WASP so elite?
Anonymous wrote:Unfortunately I recall Holy Cross named a building after Fauci. A mistake.


If Princeton took off Wilson, HC should follow suit.
Anonymous
Post 01/09/2026 12:50     Subject: Why are WASP so elite?
Unfortunately I recall Holy Cross named a building after Fauci. A mistake.
Anonymous
Post 01/09/2026 12:46     Subject: Why are WASP so elite?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I never really consider Holy Cross a SLAC, but I guess it is. The weird thing about HC - which I like! - is that the big names of the olden days went to HC because it was catholic: either their parents required a catholic school or some other reason.

Fauci, for example, went to Regis and Regis required the boys go to Catholic college back in the day (can you imagine any high school with that power now?)

Clarence Thomas went to the College of the Holy Cross after a priest, Rev. John Brooks, recruited him and other Black students in 1968, offering scholarships to create diversity, as Thomas had left the seminary and had nowhere else to go, becoming one of the first Black students at the elite Catholic college. (So we have a priest to thank for that)

Anywho .. I'm not sure as many kids these days have these stipulations.


Touting Fauci is the dumbest thing the school could do. The idiot authorized the offloading of a manipulated strain of the common cold to China for continued gain-of-function research, and the rest is history.


The tin hat crowd has arrived.


yep. and some of you are taking college advice from these people.
Anonymous
Post 01/09/2026 12:33     Subject: Why are WASP so elite?
Anonymous wrote:

Touting Fauci is the dumbest thing the school could do. The idiot authorized the offloading of a manipulated strain of the common cold to China for continued gain-of-function research, and the rest is history.


So true. Maybe they can chisel a statue of him. The plaque would read: In honor of the man who killed around 15 million people.
Anonymous
Post 01/09/2026 12:33     Subject: Why are WASP so elite?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I've never heard of anyone choose middlebury over cornell.


A kid in our town received offers to play football at Cornell, U Chicago, JHU, Wesleyan, and Carleton this fall and just committed to Middlebury. I don't want to post his name here, but he goes to St. Ignatius and you can find it on social media.



It's doesn't surprise me that it's an athlete. Middlebury is culturally the most athlete-friendly in this group.
Anonymous
Post 01/09/2026 12:32     Subject: Why are WASP so elite?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I never really consider Holy Cross a SLAC, but I guess it is. The weird thing about HC - which I like! - is that the big names of the olden days went to HC because it was catholic: either their parents required a catholic school or some other reason.

Fauci, for example, went to Regis and Regis required the boys go to Catholic college back in the day (can you imagine any high school with that power now?)

Clarence Thomas went to the College of the Holy Cross after a priest, Rev. John Brooks, recruited him and other Black students in 1968, offering scholarships to create diversity, as Thomas had left the seminary and had nowhere else to go, becoming one of the first Black students at the elite Catholic college. (So we have a priest to thank for that)

Anywho .. I'm not sure as many kids these days have these stipulations.


Touting Fauci is the dumbest thing the school could do. The idiot authorized the offloading of a manipulated strain of the common cold to China for continued gain-of-function research, and the rest is history.


The tin hat crowd has arrived.
Anonymous
Post 01/09/2026 12:30     Subject: Why are WASP so elite?
Anonymous wrote:I never really consider Holy Cross a SLAC, but I guess it is. The weird thing about HC - which I like! - is that the big names of the olden days went to HC because it was catholic: either their parents required a catholic school or some other reason.

Fauci, for example, went to Regis and Regis required the boys go to Catholic college back in the day (can you imagine any high school with that power now?)

Clarence Thomas went to the College of the Holy Cross after a priest, Rev. John Brooks, recruited him and other Black students in 1968, offering scholarships to create diversity, as Thomas had left the seminary and had nowhere else to go, becoming one of the first Black students at the elite Catholic college. (So we have a priest to thank for that)

Anywho .. I'm not sure as many kids these days have these stipulations.


Touting Fauci is the dumbest thing the school could do. The idiot authorized the offloading of a manipulated strain of the common cold to China for continued gain-of-function research, and the rest is history.
Anonymous
Post 01/09/2026 12:28     Subject: Why are WASP so elite?
Anonymous wrote:That stock picking rating on Hamilton and Middlebury and Colgate to sell is spot on. Last 2 to 3 years significant app drops at Colgate and Midd. Trend is not their friend.


What is the locate number, and what is my carry?
Anonymous
Post 01/09/2026 12:26     Subject: Why are WASP so elite?
I never really consider Holy Cross a SLAC, but I guess it is. The weird thing about HC - which I like! - is that the big names of the olden days went to HC because it was catholic: either their parents required a catholic school or some other reason.

Fauci, for example, went to Regis and Regis required the boys go to Catholic college back in the day (can you imagine any high school with that power now?)

Clarence Thomas went to the College of the Holy Cross after a priest, Rev. John Brooks, recruited him and other Black students in 1968, offering scholarships to create diversity, as Thomas had left the seminary and had nowhere else to go, becoming one of the first Black students at the elite Catholic college. (So we have a priest to thank for that)

Anywho .. I'm not sure as many kids these days have these stipulations.
Anonymous
Post 01/09/2026 12:11     Subject: Why are WASP so elite?
Looks settled Amherst/Williams/Bowdoin. The rest will soon be offering lots of merit aid and free Canadian Goose Jackets.
Anonymous
Post 01/09/2026 12:08     Subject: Why are WASP so elite?
Anonymous wrote:Middle…bury is aptly named given the current pecking order of the NESCAC.


As someone watching from the sidelines, I'd encourage the Middlebury folks to stop feeding the troll(s). There's someone (more than one?) on here who is trying to get a rise out of you, and is succeeding.
Anonymous
Post 01/09/2026 12:06     Subject: Why are WASP so elite?
Anonymous wrote:Obviously not too many math majors graduate from Middlebury. Midd enrollment 2700 last reported endowment $1.6 billion. Colby 2400 kids end $1.2 billion. Get the calculator out, Colby’s endowment is higher than 2/3% of Midd.


Could also be that they know how to look up the current number. Or, maybe they are just too busy getting ready for their IB and MBB interview cycles which is something that Colby kids don't have to worry about.