Anonymous
Post 06/04/2020 18:12     Subject: Overrated schools
Anonymous wrote:I'm not really impressed by any SLAC/LACs. They're all good schools full of capable kids but I just laugh at the booster crazy parents trying to hype up their kid's obscure liberal arts college. Tacky striver parents who feel the need to hype a SLAC/LAC are the antithesis of the low-key families who typically choose SLAC/LACs. Confident moneyed (likely lifer private school) parents who send their kids to expensive SLAC/LACs don't have any urge to teach random people a thing or two about how amazing their kid's liberal arts college is. It provided a comfortable safe setting and a good education. That's that.


I worked at a place that had an internship programs. Writing skills were very important, so we asked applicants to submit an example of their best written work. The writing examples written by the LAC kids were significantly better on average those submitted by kids from national universities of approximately the same level.
Anonymous
Post 06/04/2020 18:10     Subject: Overrated schools
Anonymous wrote:
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Anonymous wrote:Wash U St. Louis

+1. Dying city, dead center of flyover country, nobody has ever heard of it. I realize it's supposedly a research and pre-med powerhouse, or something, but who really cares?

Maybe those in pre-med?

I don't need to send my 18-yo kid to St Louis to become a physician. I imagine very few alums ever return after graduation.

It depends on what you're looking for. I went to college in Boston, a fun city for college, but I haven't lived there since... so what.

WashU has an excellent reputation among those who matter (employers and grad schools). Its campus, and St. Louis, are not terrible places to spend ages 18-22. My kids could use a bit of time in the Midwest and I would be happy if they were to apply ED. It's friendlier than DC.

Anyone care to compare WashU vs Georgetown?


Speaking of Georgetown...

Georgetown!
Anonymous
Post 06/04/2020 18:08     Subject: Overrated schools
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Wash U St. Louis

+1. Dying city, dead center of flyover country, nobody has ever heard of it. I realize it's supposedly a research and pre-med powerhouse, or something, but who really cares?

Maybe those in pre-med?

I don't need to send my 18-yo kid to St Louis to become a physician. I imagine very few alums ever return after graduation.

It depends on what you're looking for. I went to college in Boston, a fun city for college, but I haven't lived there since... so what.

WashU has an excellent reputation among those who matter (employers and grad schools). Its campus, and St. Louis, are not terrible places to spend ages 18-22. My kids could use a bit of time in the Midwest and I would be happy if they were to apply ED. It's friendlier than DC.

Anyone care to compare WashU vs Georgetown?
Anonymous
Post 06/04/2020 18:00     Subject: Overrated schools
Anonymous wrote:
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Anonymous wrote:Pitt!


Same. We live in Pa and I know very few people who apply there. It isn’t on anyone’s radar here.


Pitt has some standing in NoVa for some reason. I am not aware of it having similar standing anywhere else.


Well, probably MoCo, since the buses that Pitt charters for students during the holidays arrive and depart from Westfield Montgomery Mall.
Anonymous
Post 06/04/2020 17:55     Subject: Overrated schools
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Wash U St. Louis


+1. Dying city, dead center of flyover country, nobody has ever heard of it. I realize it's supposedly a research and pre-med powerhouse, or something, but who really cares?


Maybe those in pre-med?


I don't need to send my 18-yo kid to St Louis to become a physician. I imagine very few alums ever return after graduation.
Anonymous
Post 06/04/2020 17:53     Subject: Overrated schools
I'm not really impressed by any SLAC/LACs. They're all good schools full of capable kids but I just laugh at the booster crazy parents trying to hype up their kid's obscure liberal arts college. Tacky striver parents who feel the need to hype a SLAC/LAC are the antithesis of the low-key families who typically choose SLAC/LACs. Confident moneyed (likely lifer private school) parents who send their kids to expensive SLAC/LACs don't have any urge to teach random people a thing or two about how amazing their kid's liberal arts college is. It provided a comfortable safe setting and a good education. That's that.
Anonymous
Post 06/04/2020 17:50     Subject: Overrated schools
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Wash U St. Louis


+1. Dying city, dead center of flyover country, nobody has ever heard of it. I realize it's supposedly a research and pre-med powerhouse, or something, but who really cares?


Maybe those in pre-med?
Anonymous
Post 06/04/2020 17:45     Subject: Overrated schools
Anonymous wrote:Wash U St. Louis


+1. Dying city, dead center of flyover country, nobody has ever heard of it. I realize it's supposedly a research and pre-med powerhouse, or something, but who really cares?
Anonymous
Post 06/04/2020 17:44     Subject: Overrated schools
This is the dumbest thread ever on DCUM. Not funny, Not clever. Not really even mean. Just dumb.
Anonymous
Post 06/04/2020 17:42     Subject: Overrated schools
Anonymous wrote:
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Anonymous wrote:UVA. Why would anyone want to go there?



Same reasons people want to go to any state flagship.


But that assumes UVA is the state flagship

It’s called The University of Virginia for a reason...
Anonymous
Post 06/04/2020 17:27     Subject: Overrated schools
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:UVA. Why would anyone want to go there?



Same reasons people want to go to any state flagship.


But that assumes UVA is the state flagship
Anonymous
Post 06/04/2020 17:19     Subject: Overrated schools
Elon
Anonymous
Post 06/04/2020 17:18     Subject: Overrated schools
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Anonymous wrote:Any Ivy...

signed, an Ivy grad who would go to a state school if he had to do it again.




There are always some who will be unhappy. These people will be unhappy even in heaven.


Lol. As well as some who spectacularly lack any skills in deduction and logic!
Anonymous
Post 06/04/2020 17:11     Subject: Overrated schools
Anonymous wrote:Any Ivy...

signed, an Ivy grad who would go to a state school if he had to do it again.




There are always some who will be unhappy. These people will be unhappy even in heaven.
Anonymous
Post 06/04/2020 12:11     Subject: Overrated schools
Any Ivy...

signed, an Ivy grad who would go to a state school if he had to do it again.