Anonymous
Post 01/09/2026 15:46     Subject: Why are WASP so elite?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:At least 2 US Senators are SLAC grads. Murphy of Ct is Willams and Welch of Vermont is Holy Cross. Susan Collins is St Lawrence not sure that is a SLAC.


Many senators are! Chris Van Hollen of MD is a Swattie.


Is there anything more cringe than 'Swattie'?


That's Senator Swattie to you!
Anonymous
Post 01/09/2026 15:41     Subject: Why are WASP so elite?
Chris Matthews HC ‘67.
Anonymous
Post 01/09/2026 15:32     Subject: Why are WASP so elite?
Anonymous wrote:Fauci not a plus.

Bill Simmons?
Anonymous
Post 01/09/2026 15:27     Subject: Why are WASP so elite?
What is swarthmore’s sports nickname?




Anonymous
Post 01/09/2026 15:25     Subject: Why are WASP so elite?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:At least 2 US Senators are SLAC grads. Murphy of Ct is Willams and Welch of Vermont is Holy Cross. Susan Collins is St Lawrence not sure that is a SLAC.


Many senators are! Chris Van Hollen of MD is a Swattie.


Is there anything more cringe than 'Swattie'?
Anonymous
Post 01/09/2026 15:21     Subject: Why are WASP so elite?
Anonymous wrote:At least 2 US Senators are SLAC grads. Murphy of Ct is Willams and Welch of Vermont is Holy Cross. Susan Collins is St Lawrence not sure that is a SLAC.


Many senators are! Chris Van Hollen of MD is a Swattie.
Anonymous
Post 01/09/2026 15:18     Subject: Why are WASP so elite?
At least 2 US Senators are SLAC grads. Murphy of Ct is Willams and Welch of Vermont is Holy Cross. Susan Collins is St Lawrence not sure that is a SLAC.
Anonymous
Post 01/09/2026 14:54     Subject: Why are WASP so elite?
Anonymous wrote:Fauci not a plus.


She gave two examples: Fauci and Clarence Thomas. Surely everyone here dislikes one or the other. And yet only one side can't read her point because someone said "fauci" and the alarm bell Bill Gate and George Soros injected into your bloodstream went off. Be better
Anonymous
Post 01/09/2026 14:31     Subject: Why are WASP so elite?
Anonymous wrote:Looks settled Amherst/Williams/Bowdoin. The rest will soon be offering lots of merit aid and free Canadian Goose Jackets.

Bowdoin is really out of place with these two.
Anonymous
Post 01/09/2026 14:26     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.


There is a girl at Middlebury (athletic recruit) from our school who turned down MIT support along with Williams, Amherst, and many others including three schools in the above list. She also multiple D1 offers (no Ivies that I am aware of). She was also in teh top 10 in her class and had the academics to be competitive anywhere. Her parents are PE type so I would bet that academics were a priority.
MIT support doesn't mean you're getting in
Anonymous
Post 01/09/2026 14:02     Subject: Why are WASP so elite?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Middle…bury is aptly named given the current pecking order of the NESCAC.


lol Sounds more like it's buried half way underground.


This obsessive animosity towards Midd is just weird. Guessing someone is bitter because their kid didn't get in.

Midd is a great school, as are many other LACs.
Anonymous
Post 01/09/2026 13:36     Subject: Why are WASP so elite?
Anonymous wrote:Fauci not a plus.


not if you're MAGA
Anonymous
Post 01/09/2026 13:35     Subject: Why are WASP so elite?
Anonymous wrote:Perhaps they don't want to give out Ivy-tier signaling.

Most of these second tier LACs are where wealthy Americans would send their kids generation after generation. They care about education quality, kids get great education at these places but at the same time is not cutthroat.

The kids will go to great med schools law schools and PhD after graduation, and become good doctors, lawyers, and scholars. Quietly raise their next generation of kids.

Then repeat the cycle.

Immigrant parents don't care about these schools. American wealthy don't want them to care either.


I agree with this as a HYP grad who is happily sending both of my kids to LACs.
Anonymous
Post 01/09/2026 13:29     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.


There is a girl at Middlebury (athletic recruit) from our school who turned down MIT support along with Williams, Amherst, and many others including three schools in the above list. She also multiple D1 offers (no Ivies that I am aware of). She was also in teh top 10 in her class and had the academics to be competitive anywhere. Her parents are PE type so I would bet that academics were a priority.
Anonymous
Post 01/09/2026 13:07     Subject: Why are WASP so elite?
Fauci not a plus.