Another interesting wrinkle. American LACs are not generally well-known outside the U.S. Notre Dame at least has an incredibly famous sports franchise. The American LAC (used synonymously to mean, a small private college) has one superpower: exceptionally strong alumni loyalty and contacts; it often allows places like Williams, Middlebury, Hamilton and Bowdoin to operate under the radar in terms of job recruitment.
Their other superpower used to be that, for a long time, they were easier admits than the Ivy League. But that’s becoming less and less true as Williams, Colby and Bowdoin have all recently seen their acceptance rates drop to the single digits.
For a leisurely discussion (700+ posts and counting) of the New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC) schools, you may want to use the “Top Replies” option and scroll down the “NESCAC Spoken Here” thread:
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