Anonymous wrote:I think dorms are more important at slacs FWIW. For some kids, snuggling into a long winter of classes and eating with friends is just perfect as long as you have a cozy environment.
A shitty dorms kills the vibe.


(If this sounds awful, dont look at any school north of NYC)

What does this mean? As in, how is this different from a university- who typically has horrendous dorm accommodations too.

I think dorms are more important at slacs FWIW. For some kids, snuggling into a long winter of classes and eating with friends is just perfect as long as you have a cozy environment.
A shitty dorms kills the vibe.


(If this sounds awful, dont look at any school north of NYC)

Also, there are plenty of other nice SLACs not listed here that offer merit. Hamilton. Dickinson will literally tell you what they’ll give you. So will Macalester, but that’s Midwest. Etc…I’m the poster above. Daughter is at Bryn Mawr. We also looked at Haverford and Swarthmore. It’s hard to say if she would have gotten in because she applied ED to Bryn Mawr and ended up getting great merit. But she genuinely liked Bryn Mawr the best. And then the rankings place Haverford above Bryn Mawr but she’s taking most of her classes at Haverford. The schools were all very similar but only Bryn Mawr gives merit. I feel like is Dickinson that different? Is Oberlin? Of course it’s cache, but personally glad we’re saving the money and Bryn Mawr has a 4+1 grad program with UPenn if she keeps her grades up.

^and Haverford was traditionally a top 5 liberal arts college and known for being incredibly rigorous. They still good much of the same faculty, and I’m sure outcomes are in line with WASP. Rankings have decimated peoples understand of LACs.

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Anonymous wrote:All the above plus Haverford, Wesleyan, Vassar, Hamilton, and Washington and Lee.

If female, add Wellesley, Barnard, and Smith.

There are probably more depending on the student.

Not sure I'd feel good about paying $90k/year for Haverford.

If you have a strong student who is not a boy you can pay $45 at Bryn Mawr and they can take as many classes as they want at Haverford. (Or Swarthmore technically but I don’t think as many do because it’s not as close)

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Anonymous wrote:SLAC’s are a tougher sell in the South where we have great in-state flagships and state-sponsored merit scholarship programs. Georgia’s Hope scholarship, FL Bright Futures, etc

Great state flagships in the South? Lol

https://www.admissions.uga.edu/admissions/admission-statistics/

UGA Honors’ average SAT for incoming first years is comparable to that of students at the top SLAC’s. The opportunities offered are amazing.

Signed- WASP grad in the Southeast

There's so much inflation these days that the stats mean nothing. Top colleges filter and know which schools are still rigorous and which are desperately failing-UGA attracts students at the latter.

Source? If the schools are failing then where at the kids with 1500+ SAT’s coming from?

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Anonymous wrote:SLAC’s are a tougher sell in the South where we have great in-state flagships and state-sponsored merit scholarship programs. Georgia’s Hope scholarship, FL Bright Futures, etc

Great state flagships in the South? Lol

https://www.admissions.uga.edu/admissions/admission-statistics/

UGA Honors’ average SAT for incoming first years is comparable to that of students at the top SLAC’s. The opportunities offered are amazing.

Signed- WASP grad in the Southeast

There's so much inflation these days that the stats mean nothing. Top colleges filter and know which schools are still rigorous and which are desperately failing-UGA attracts students at the latter.

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Anonymous wrote:SLAC’s are a tougher sell in the South where we have great in-state flagships and state-sponsored merit scholarship programs. Georgia’s Hope scholarship, FL Bright Futures, etc

Great state flagships in the South? Lol

https://www.admissions.uga.edu/admissions/admission-statistics/

UGA Honors’ average SAT for incoming first years is comparable to that of students at the top SLAC’s. The opportunities offered are amazing.

Signed- WASP grad in the Southeast

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Anonymous wrote:Bucknell if your desired outcome is finance/Wall Street.

+1. Absolutely!

wrong. Not even a top 10 lac for finance nor Wall Street. Just a typical college for people dumb enough to shell money for an irrelevant college with no career opportunities or intelligent students.

Thank you for your compelling, fact-driven analysis.

You can always make your own argument, but you can't so you have to insinuate bs.

You call name calling and gross over generalizations an argument? You are drunk clown who bumped their head. How’s that?

Whatever pp said, it’s not that far off the meter. Bucknell is way overrated.

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Anonymous wrote:Bucknell if your desired outcome is finance/Wall Street.

+1. Absolutely!

wrong. Not even a top 10 lac for finance nor Wall Street. Just a typical college for people dumb enough to shell money for an irrelevant college with no career opportunities or intelligent students.

Thank you for your compelling, fact-driven analysis.

You can always make your own argument, but you can't so you have to insinuate bs.

You call name calling and gross over generalizations an argument? You are drunk clown who bumped their head. How’s that?

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Anonymous wrote:Bucknell if your desired outcome is finance/Wall Street.

+1. Absolutely!

wrong. Not even a top 10 lac for finance nor Wall Street. Just a typical college for people dumb enough to shell money for an irrelevant college with no career opportunities or intelligent students.

Thank you for your compelling, fact-driven analysis.

You can always make your own argument, but you can't so you have to insinuate bs.

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Anonymous wrote:Bucknell if your desired outcome is finance/Wall Street.

+1. Absolutely!

wrong. Not even a top 10 lac for finance nor Wall Street. Just a typical college for people dumb enough to shell money for an irrelevant college with no career opportunities or intelligent students.

Thank you for your compelling, fact-driven analysis.

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Anonymous wrote:Bucknell if your desired outcome is finance/Wall Street.

+1. Absolutely!

wrong. Not even a top 10 lac for finance nor Wall Street. Just a typical college for people dumb enough to shell money for an irrelevant college with no career opportunities or intelligent students.

Anonymous wrote:Bucknell if your desired outcome is finance/Wall Street.

+1. Absolutely!

yeah I would prioritize the one that is closest to home and least inconvenient to travel to for you kid.