Anonymous wrote:UC Santa Cruz

Oh to be a banana slug

Anonymous wrote:Don’t get your kids all hung up on a “dream” school. There’s no such thing.

I went to a small SLAC and my best friend went to a huge state school. We visited each other while at college and both commented on how we had similar experiences in so many ways despite our schools being so different. I think it had a lot to do with the people we surrounded ourselves with and the experiences we sought out. So I agree, the idea of one school being "perfect" seems a bit silly (and dangerous) to me.

Probably the college I attended. I loved it and since I can't say exactly what my experience would have been elsewhere, I'm not sure another college would have been better.

I applied to 13 schools all over the US and had no ties to any of them (my parents both attended a low-rated instate school and I didn't even look there). I got into most of them so I had a big choice to make but I'm very happy with the school I chose.

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Anonymous wrote:I went to a liberal arts HBCU. Dream school would be Stanford or Yale.

Why are people so obsessed with Yale?

We are in DC so there’s a bend towards law and public policy which Yale is top 3 in. But not everyone is obsessed, one PP said they went to Yale but their dream school was Duke. It really depends on the individual.

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Anonymous wrote:I went to a liberal arts HBCU. Dream school would be Stanford or Yale.

Why are people so obsessed with Yale?

I went to Yale and it would still be my dream school today.

Pomona
Stanford
Middlebury
Scripps

I wasn’t really motivated. My mom handed me a pile of paper applications that she must have requested by mail. They were mostly large state schools and a small public. None were rigorous by 80s standards (though some are popular here today). I sent them all in but I wasn’t enthusiastic about any. There was zero concern about where I’d be accepted. I had previously visited some schools with my mom and fell in love with an SLAC but when my dad saw the price tag he said no. Therefore I chose the one small public thinking it was most similar. It was not in the least. But I eventually transfered to the state flagship which was a party school at the time. I had a blast so all’s well that ends well.

Williams College, MA

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Anonymous wrote:I went to a liberal arts HBCU. Dream school would be Stanford or Yale.

Why are people so obsessed with Yale?

I was the PP. I like Yale because it is the best school for public affairs. I like their residential colleges, the New Haven community, and the senior societies.

Anonymous wrote:I went to a liberal arts HBCU. Dream school would be Stanford or Yale.

Why are people so obsessed with Yale?

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Anonymous wrote:I went to HYP, and I'm grateful for the experience. But I have since wondered if a top SLAC would have been a better experience.

I went to a SLAC and have had friends who went to Duke, Stanford and Cornell all say they wish they had gone to my school instead.

The LAC boosters are intolerable. Always push an anonymous LAC over elite Ivies & Ivy Plus schools, but never "reveal" the name of the mysterious LAC. Total bs.

my kid a senior at what is considered a top LAC, and we recently visited for his sport senior day. Him and close friends out with us and over cocktails all expressed that they should’ve done a nonLAC - LAC experience is waaaay overrated - and seldom opens any doors from a career / first job perspective - Lehigh /NYU/UVA would’ve been a better path than any NESCAC

"Him and his close friends" said that, did they?

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Anonymous wrote:I went to HYP, and I'm grateful for the experience. But I have since wondered if a top SLAC would have been a better experience.

I went to a SLAC and have had friends who went to Duke, Stanford and Cornell all say they wish they had gone to my school instead.

The LAC boosters are intolerable. Always push an anonymous LAC over elite Ivies & Ivy Plus schools, but never "reveal" the name of the mysterious LAC. Total bs.

The poster right above you said she went to Swarthmore - hardly anonymous.

I went to a liberal arts HBCU. Dream school would be Stanford or Yale.

I went to a LAC and while I enjoyed my experience there, I'm envious of the opportunities my own kids are having at large state schools. Kind of wish I had gone that route.

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Anonymous wrote:I went to HYP, and I'm grateful for the experience. But I have since wondered if a top SLAC would have been a better experience.

I went to a SLAC and have had friends who went to Duke, Stanford and Cornell all say they wish they had gone to my school instead.

The LAC boosters are intolerable. Always push an anonymous LAC over elite Ivies & Ivy Plus schools, but never "reveal" the name of the mysterious LAC. Total bs.

my kid a senior at what is considered a top LAC, and we recently visited for his sport senior day. Him and close friends out with us and over cocktails all expressed that they should’ve done a nonLAC - LAC experience is waaaay overrated - and seldom opens any doors from a career / first job perspective - Lehigh /NYU/UVA would’ve been a better path than any NESCAC