<p>SLC is not all that selective and fairly intense. I’m close to a couple of people at SLC and it’s clear to me that the college doesn’t suit most normal kids. It’s extremely and uniformly liberal, and the students are extremely quirky which has some pluses. Due to adverse selection though, they often have decent applicants who have done miserably on their SATs apply to SLC because those applicants would never get into an equivalent college if that college saw their SAT scores. The SAT might be a bad test, but you don’t want to be picking people who’ve done extremely poorly on it and now want to hide their scores.</p>
<p>SLC caps classes at 3/semester under the pretext that their classes are intense (which is true), but this is also to keep classes small. If you have a limited number and size of classrooms the easiest way to fit students in is to cap the number of classes they can take. I don’t know of any recruiters who hire from SLC, but I imagine with their writing focused curriculum, some of the top students must get into good law schools. </p>
<p>Finally SLC is the most expensive private university in the US with some phenomenal marketing, but ultimately it just doesn’t live up to the hype, and it definitely doesn’t come close to justifying the huge price tag. It seems like SLC is just trying to make a lot of money from its students. </p>
<p>Racial diversity is low at SLC which is striking given that it’s in New York city. The college is in a really nice area and the campus is gorgeous and well maintained. It comes across to me as a school for rich, liberal hipsters to complain about the world. On the positive you will be in small classes, and you will be surrounded by some passionate professors and students.</p>