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Tufts isn't on CC's Top Universities list. And they invented Tufts Syndrome ferchrissake!! And CC put Kenyon and Grinnell on the top LACs. Both fine schools, no doubt, but up there with Williams and Wesleyan? Not sure what their motivation is, irvinemom.
On the other hand, not one of those top schools has L & T (only program of its kind in the U.S.). Not one of those top schools has the IDP admissions (only admissions program of its kind in the U.S.).
Not one of those top schools can claim the kind of rigor in and emphasis on the sciences and the arts and languages that Bard can.
And ---- here's the best part ---- not one of those top schools has Leon Botstein.
I agree with JoeBobHalley (great name, BTW) in that alumni giving and endowment size give the appearance of a less-splashy school.
But let's face it: Williams is like Amherst is like Vassar is like Wesleyan. Harvard is like Yale is like Princeton is like Penn. UConn is like UMass is like UMich is like UMinn.
But there is no place else like Bard. That's what I call splash.
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