Nonpretentious, Liberal LAC's

Raindrip
Mon, 09 Feb 2009 12:46:05 +0000

We did a tour very similar to the one you’re planning. Same goals. D is very anti pretensious. She likes down to earth humble fun people who don’t take themselves too seriously. She didn’t like any LAC we visited enough to consider it.

It should be noted that Evergreen is VERY cool, but very avant garde. A dream school for us boomers who thought we were hippies. I would have gone there in a heartbeat. But a bit overboard in the hipper than thou department for D.

Puget Sound is a beautiful squeaky clean campus with scrubbed kids. It seemed a little too idyllic.

She ended up in the Honors program at the third or fourth (I can’t ever keep track) tier state school. She loves it. All the honors kids could have gone to more prestigious schools, but they just like being among lots and lots of different types of students.