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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There's a reason these schools often don't overlap at all though for the same kid. I went to Williams and loved the quiet academic environment there and it has opened many doors. My kid humored me and visited SLACs but always knew he wanted rah rah - and is now beyond thrilled to be off to Michigan. He would have been bored stiff at Williams and I would have hated the football and Greek culture at Michigan. College is so much more than career building.

Sincere question: what do you tell a non-athletic kid who would love the quiet academic environment you described but whose mouth went agape when I told him Williams is 40% athletes?

NP I would tell him it is 60% non-athletes.

He already knows that. Because math.

Anonymous wrote:The professors at Michigan are giants in their fields. At SLACs the profs are mostly second- or third-rate scholars.

No, SLAC professors are there because they WANT to teach, which is ultimately what a college student needs

Loved my time at FL! Great campus, wonderful professors not to mention the warm weather....

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There's a reason these schools often don't overlap at all though for the same kid. I went to Williams and loved the quiet academic environment there and it has opened many doors. My kid humored me and visited SLACs but always knew he wanted rah rah - and is now beyond thrilled to be off to Michigan. He would have been bored stiff at Williams and I would have hated the football and Greek culture at Michigan. College is so much more than career building.

Sincere question: what do you tell a non-athletic kid who would love the quiet academic environment you described but whose mouth went agape when I told him Williams is 40% athletes?

NP I would tell him it is 60% non-athletes.

Anonymous wrote:There's a reason these schools often don't overlap at all though for the same kid. I went to Williams and loved the quiet academic environment there and it has opened many doors. My kid humored me and visited SLACs but always knew he wanted rah rah - and is now beyond thrilled to be off to Michigan. He would have been bored stiff at Williams and I would have hated the football and Greek culture at Michigan. College is so much more than career building.

Sincere question: what do you tell a non-athletic kid who would love the quiet academic environment you described but whose mouth went agape when I told him Williams is 40% athletes?

Anonymous wrote:The only SLAC I would pick over Michigan is Williams.

Uh, no. I’d pick any of the top 20 SLACs over Michigan.

Note that the latest USNWR rankings included service academies in their LAC rankings, so strike those. Also, many of the top schools are tied. Once you account for those two issues, the top 20 are really the top 6.

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Anonymous wrote:Which opens more doors? (Please don’t talk about fit, I know I’m comparing really big to really small)

Need the name of the particular LAC. Nonetheless, Michigan opens more doors than any LAC including Amherst & Williams.

Michigan opens more doors. But Williams opens doors to places only a chosen few enter. iykyk

The professors at Michigan are giants in their fields. At SLACs the profs are mostly second- or third-rate scholars.

Top SLACs have high-quality and intense academics. Your kid will know how to write when they graduate! SLACs also have very loyal alumni who help with job placement.

I’m sure your kid can get a good education at Michigan, but it will be qualitatively different from a well-ranked SLAC - large classes, TAs, passive lecture, problem sets, and multiple choice tests compared to very small classes, professors, active discussion, papers, and conceptual questions. Ditto for getting a job, but no one at the Michigan career center is going to hold your hand.

The only SLAC I would pick over Michigan is Williams.

Anonymous wrote:Florida schools are heading down the drain because of politics. Unfortunate but true. No contest, MI (which was always ahead of FL, but is now top v bottom)

Sadly, for you and your propaganda machine, they are not.

Anonymous wrote:Florida is losing professors at the moment. Michigan is one of the rare state schools which is virtually indistinguishable from the top private colleges.

Every college lose his professor this is a stupid post