Gota-Get-Ins

Colleges and Universities A-Z Smith College
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<p>I put Smith in caps lest anyone miss it ;)</p>

<p>"Admissions mania focuses most intensely on what might be called the Gotta-Get-Ins, the colleges with maximum allure. The twenty-five Gotta-Get-Ins of the moment, according to admissions officers, are the Ivies (Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, Penn, Princeton, and Yale), plus Amherst, Berkeley, Caltech, Chicago, Duke, Georgetown, Johns Hopkins, MIT, Northwestern, Pomona, <em>SMITH</em>, Stanford, Swarthmore, Vassar, Washington"</p>

<p><a href="http://www.brookings.edu/views/articles/20040902easterbrook.htm%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.brookings.edu/views/articles/20040902easterbrook.htm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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<p>Sorry, RLT, you left two off the list:</p>

<p>"the Ivies (Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, Penn, Princeton, and Yale), plus Amherst, Berkeley, Caltech, Chicago, Duke, Georgetown, Johns Hopkins, MIT, Northwestern, Pomona, Smith, Stanford, Swarthmore, Vassar, Washington University in St. Louis, Wellesley, and Williams"</p>

<p>Much as I believe in the quality of Smith's education, I couldn't believe it had made the list and Wellesley hadn't, so I double-checked your link. Thanks for bringing it to our attention, though.</p>

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<p>Sorry, RLT, you left two off the list:]]</p>

<p>Accidental omission. I happen to like both Williams and Wellesley</p>

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<p>WooHoo!!!! It's what we've been saying all along, isn't it????</p>

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<p>I'd love the list posted in every h/s college counseling office in the country, yours included :)</p>

<p>I'm not a big fan of lists--unless they support my view--but I do have a great deal of admiration and confidence in the Bookings Institution</p>

<p>Smith should include the distinction in their brochures or on their website, preferably both. Many college tout their US News ranking, why not brag a little about the Brookings research?</p>

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<p>tangentally, two of my closest friends here (we did a semester in dc together) are taking jobs at Brookings after graduation.</p>

<p>that they chose to hire people I know are so smart and wonderful only increases my respect for the fine institution and the research it produces ;)</p>

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I'd love the list posted in every h/s college counseling office in the country, yours included

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<em>LOL</em> Already printed it up and bringing it in tomorrow! Great minds think alike!</p>

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Smith should include the distinction in their brochures or on their website, preferably both. Many college tout their US News ranking, why not brag a little about the Brookings research?

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;) I bet you already told them, didn't you? ;) Nice find, RLT!</p>

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<p>Nice find, RLT!]]</p>

<p>Thanks, however, I can't take credit. I should be so good. The credit belongs to ADad.
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