Frustration over LAC's

unalove
Tue, 05 Aug 2008 11:07:15 +0000

Don’t worry, your LAC frustration is not limited to your income bracket or your region.

My best friend went to a public HS in the northeast that sends a handful of students to top schools every year. (In the past, “top” has included Penn, Duke, Bard, University of Rochester, Columbia, Georgetown, Yale). Anyway, he was interested in a bunch of big-name schools, and Amherst. He got a lot of “I’ve never heard of it!” from his guidance counselor, but I think they stopped talking when they saw how much his family didn’t have to pay for his education :-)

You can pull off information on Duke/Amherst on collegeboard (with help from CC-ers) and put them side-by-side numerically-- midrange SAT, acceptance rate, endowment per capita, you name it. A school like Amherst will compare very favorably to the schools on your list.