I have a plethora of questions about LACs, and would love answers! A little goblin from the slums of Reddit’s A2C told me this was the website to come to.
- To start it a little on a lighter and hopefully pithy note, what three words (or short sentence) could you summarize some specific liberal arts colleges with? I’m personally interested in Swarthmore, Pomona, Haverford, and Reed, but answers containing other LACs would be more than welcome and helpful as well.
- Are LACs looking for different things in applicants when compared to nation university admissions? For example, I know we’re generally in an interdisciplinary craze, but would LACs relatively look more for that trait (or any other characteristics of an applicant)?
- Somewhat similarly, what kind of student gets into a top LAC?
- Finally, how would a LAC education be perceived by employers or grad admissions? Would a top LAC (like Swarthmore/Pomona) be viewed similarly to, for example, an ivy league (this phrase no longer deserves capitalization in my eyes, and yet I still use it…) school for all purposes? (and on a related note, while I yearn to escape my parent-instilled greed for prestige in situations where comparison can barely be made, how would the quality, prestige, and dare I say rank of LACs compare to universities?)
Thank you so much for your answers in advance!
Let Pomona College no longer be assumed a community college by Uncle Paul!
Let Wesleyan University no longer just be ‘that one college in Bojack season six!’
Let Colgate University no longer dismissed as a toothpaste research lab!
Pitzer? I hardly know 'er! And nobody seems to know Pitzer!
LET THE LIBERAL ARTS COLLEGES BE LIBERATED FROM THE SHADOWS OF DISREGARD IN THE PUBLIC EYE!!!