Anonymous wrote:For those looking seriously at Hamilton, what are the other schools your DC is also seriously looking at?

Colgate, Middlebury, Wesleyan, William & Mary

For those looking seriously at Hamilton, what are the other schools your DC is also seriously looking at?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My DCs are only interested in going to a SLAC or a similar schools. Different strokes I suppose. Too much hype for national universities and 5 years out I hope they will each have recently finished a med and law school, respectively of a large national university.

Dunno, judging from your post, you seem pretty comfortable with your own hype, respectively.

I don't even understood this response. We are talking about colleges that cost around $50,000 a year after private school for 12 years at around $30,000/year now and you think it is "hype" for someone to state that his kids' first choice schools are small liberal arts schools (and not consider Ivies) followed by professional education? Is this DC after all? Is this some outlier opinion/aspiration?

Anonymous wrote:So what's the profile of the average freshman? In other words, what type of GPA/SAT would my DC need to make it in?

From the Common Data Set: SAt for students enrolled during the fall of 2011 SAT scores for the middle 50%:
Reading 650/740
Math 660/730
Writing 650/730

Most kids not[b] admitted as student athetes, first generation, URM etc, need to score near or above 75%ile.

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Anonymous wrote:Don't know if anything has changed, but when I was applying to colleges about 10 years ago, Hamilton was known to New Englanders as the place where rich kids go when they couldn't get in anywhere else. It was not well-respected, but again, things may be different now.

It is. Hobart & William Smith holds that title now.

...and once upon a time it was said that 95% of the undergrads at Penn were there because they didn't get into Harvard, Princeton or Yale. That was BS then and similar "titles" today are just as meaningless.