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<p>Reed? Hampshire? Oberlin?</p>
<p>If you really believe that Wesleyan and Vassar are the same as Williams and Amherst, then those aren’t a stretch at all.</p>
<p>Still, I think Bard’s exclusion on the Top LACs list has more to do with name recognition than quality. Anyone who does know Bard knows that it’s an incredible and rigorous school.</p>