How is Williams College?

johnwesley
Mon, 18 Jun 2012 18:53:30 +0000

johnwesley: The Williams parents are not criticizing the OP’s thread because they are just killing time. They are criticizing it because they are familiar enough with the process to expect a little more seriousness in dealing with it.



CC has a process? I get it. And, you’re on the nominating committee! Listen, I think before you get all judgmental and everything, you should at least take a look at this person’s posting history. So far, none of you people (and, I mean that in the nicest possible way) have been able to see past the fact that the OP posted the same thread on the fora of five different LACs (Amherst, Middlebury, Pomona, Wesleyan and Willams) as if that were a crime of some sort (oh, the horror! He’s interested in other schools!)

Nevertheless, once you get past that youthful indiscretion, you’ll see that they’ve actually been doing quite a bit of research on a wide variety of institutions over the past three or four months, including one Duke vs Vanderbilt thread with 102 responses. And, have we forgotten that Williams, Wesleyan and Amherst are numbered among the least known, most obscure, least understood institutions on the planet?

Add the fact that the OP is an African-American and, assuming nothing else about their SES, I am extremely impressed by their “seriousness”.