Anonymous wrote:Worcester is diverse sorry it’s not Greenwich or New Canaan

Anonymous wrote:Very low diversity at the Maine, Vermont, and upstate NY LACs. Those schools have a problem and unfortunately those schools can’t relocate.

Anonymous wrote:I went to Pomona as a QuestBridge Scholar and it was a common consensus among all my QB LAC friends (essentially, all the top ranked schools are partners) that no one knew our undergraduate institution.

They might be considered elite in some circles, but most of our experiences with name recognition has been confusion or apathy overall. Yes, even for people from Williams and Swarthmore.

Anonymous wrote:I went to Pomona as a QuestBridge Scholar and it was a common consensus among all my QB LAC friends (essentially, all the top ranked schools are partners) that no one knew our undergraduate institution.

They might be considered elite in some circles, but most of our experiences with name recognition has been confusion or apathy overall. Yes, even for people from Williams and Swarthmore.

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Anonymous wrote:These posts make for excellent entertainment. Wow - the insecurity in this thread is palpable! “IYKYK,” amirite?

insecure parents who pissed away money becaue they couldnt get into an actual top school instead of a podunk unrecognizable sister of the poor school

Actually, I find the insecure people are the ones who went to State U because they didn’t know any better or couldn’t afford a private college.

I went to one of the SLACs repeatedly mentioned here and have never, for one minute, felt insecure about it but I sense insecurity and sometimes hostility from people who went to state schools.

I think they are both great options. My kid loves her SLAC and her bff loves her state school. Neither is insecure and they each admire the other.

+100 It’s the parents trying to make silly comparisons. Kids don’t care. My kid’s friend group is attending a mix of schools- state flagship, Ivy, medium privates, OOS flagships…they enjoy comparing notes and appreciate the variety of experiences out there.

I agree. My kids speak to their friends and almost everyone is happy with where they landed and they also all have complaints about their schools. They seem much more honest and balanced about their views than most people on DCUM.

Anonymous wrote:Ignore stagnant or declining applications at Colgate, Hamilton, and Middlebury. Also google WSJ feature article on exodus of kids to SEC.

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Anonymous wrote:These posts make for excellent entertainment. Wow - the insecurity in this thread is palpable! “IYKYK,” amirite?

insecure parents who pissed away money becaue they couldnt get into an actual top school instead of a podunk unrecognizable sister of the poor school

Actually, I find the insecure people are the ones who went to State U because they didn’t know any better or couldn’t afford a private college.

I went to one of the SLACs repeatedly mentioned here and have never, for one minute, felt insecure about it but I sense insecurity and sometimes hostility from people who went to state schools.

I think they are both great options. My kid loves her SLAC and her bff loves her state school. Neither is insecure and they each admire the other.

+100 It’s the parents trying to make silly comparisons. Kids don’t care. My kid’s friend group is attending a mix of schools- state flagship, Ivy, medium privates, OOS flagships…they enjoy comparing notes and appreciate the variety of experiences out there.

Anonymous wrote:Ignore stagnant or declining applications at Colgate, Hamilton, and Middlebury. Also google WSJ feature article on exodus of kids to SEC.

Anonymous wrote:Simple vast majority of kids don’t want to go to tiny no name schools with no diversity in the woods of a freezing cold podunk state. Going South.