How much do parents with high EFC weigh merit aid?

cptofthehouse
Sat, 24 Mar 2012 13:13:08 +0000

The atmosphere is very different, Proudpatriot, and frankly, I love the LACs like Hamilton. Wish I could have gone to one. A school like Case is not going to be as nurturing, more diversity in types of kids, more commuter kids, less contained environment, more big city feel. When you go to a school like Hamilton, you are stuck with the people and campus pretty much. Not at all so with a city school like Case. So there will be more of a clubby , secure feel to Hamilton.

Two good friends of mine went to Case at the same time but did not have any awareness of each other. For that size school, I thought it was unusual. That would never happen at a Hamilton. But one was a commuter, the other was in some city internship for a large part of the time and they were in different parts of Case. There is more of a “business” feel to a school like Case, and more of a boarding school atmosphere at Hamilton.