Appreciate the detailed response. Clearly Hamilton is much more selective than URichmond - not sure that alone justifies (for me) paying a premium for tuition. Selectivity & prestige related to selectivity is somewhat self perpetuating.
Also, while overall salaries for Hamilton grads are higher than others in NESCAC, for Economics grads, Hamilton actually has a lower salary compared to the others. Not sure if this just represents % of Econ grads going into Wall St jobs ?
Princeton Review ranks Richmond really high on services provided by the college - #6 for Career Services, #6 for Internships, #13 for Study Abroad (vs #18 for Hamilton), #9 for classroom experience (vs #14 for Hamilton)
Great advice, input, discussion on this - would be great to hear from more folks with direct experience with either school