Seeking college recommendations for progressive intellectual student

merc81
Thu, 31 Dec 2020 22:18:59 +0000

You may want to consider whether this response from a Hamilton College professor captures your son’s preferred environment:

Why did you choose Hamilton?

As a grad student I taught at a big research institution, Stanford, and there are very smart students there as well, but they weren’t the ideal I had in mind, which was the engaged, enthusiastic liberal arts student who’s in it for the ideas, for the love of knowledge …

(For this response in context, see the link in reply #25 in this topic.)