Can someone please rate the alumni networks among the NESCAC schools
Mine is the best.
What are we rating these individuals on? Giving? Achievement? Scale? Breadth? Diversity? Likelihood they’ll hire my kid after college?
I would have to say likelihood to hire
Just a guess…Economics grad?
Nope, high school student trying to figure out the pros and cons of each NESCAC.
Finding a school that’s right is a combination of art and science, and I suspect this is a bit too much science on your part. Differentiating the alumni of schools so similar is arguably impossible.
The nescac schools are all very good. They all have alumni that support their schools and offer opportunities to current students. I would worry more about where you feel you fit in…with the people ON campus…than the alums.
If you add too many variables, you risk mitigating the ones that matter most. Good luck.
as @EyeVeee said they all are very good as far as overall alumni help
her advice is right on
play around on linkedin with regards to a specific career choice and a specific school
this can shed some light on grads in a field
but all are good and will get you where you would like to go but
the right fit is priceless
Tufts and (to a lesser degree) Wesleyan are significantly larger than the other NESCACs, so I suppose their alumni networks might have the advantage of size.
Amherst, Williams, Bowdoin and Middlebury all have extremely close knit and supportive alumni networks. This is one area where larger is not always better - larger enrollment also means larger amounts of students competing with each other for those opportunities.
Hamilton!
Princeton Review ranks the top 25 alumni networks and there isn’t s NESCAC on that list. But other northeastern LACs that are;
Wellesley
College of the Holy Cross
St Lawrence
Colgate
Bucknell
Union
Pretty sure Princeton Review is based on write-in votes. Could be a proxy for networking. I see your point. 
New Williams graduates are admitted to a digital network of all living alumni. Moving to a new town? Contact graduates in the area for information, advice, or even opportunities – instant networking. Tremendous potential value in that.
Here are the Top 10 ranked by Forbes for Alumni giving participation.
Wellesley College 50.40%
Williams College 49.40%
Davidson College 45.50%
Bowdoin College 45.30%
Amherst College 45.20%
College of the Holy Cross 44.60%
Carleton College 43.60%
Dartmouth College 42.30%
Bates College 41.80%
Princeton University 41.60%
By allowing loyal alumni to visit campus and give pep talks and to make sure resumes get read by the right people - usually, a hiring committee back at the home office - alumni networks, like those found in NESCAC, are more useful as a way of turning small, out-of-the-way, colleges into virtual target schools. They can also give valuable skills training, like this one being held at Wesleyan today:
https://eaglet.wesleyan.edu/MasterCalendar/EventDetails.aspx?EventDetailId=77349
Amherst has an alumni mentor program called Pathways. Other NESCAC schools may or may not have something similar.
All of the NESCACs have strong Alum networks, but more importantly, alums feel a connection to the other NESCACs as well as their alma mater. If I see a candidate from Bates come into my office, I’m likely going to pay closer attention than if one comes in from Notre Dame (just picking random schools that help make my point). There is a bond amongst the NESCAC schools that does not exist amongst the Ivies or other conferences. So the whole is greater than the sum of its parts.
Williams has a reputation for strong alumni networks on Wall Street and–especially–in the art/museum arena, where a “Williams mafia” is reputed to hold great influence.
As do Amherst and Middlebury
Using student-level data provided by LinkedIn, the following colleges and universities send the highest percentage of graduates to “Wall Street.”
Amherst
Baruch
Boston College
Columbia
Cornell
Dartmouth
Duke
Georgetown
Harvard
Middlebury
NYU
Princeton
Rutgers
University of Michigan
University of Notre Dame
University of Pennsylvania
Wake Forest
Wellesley
Villanova
Yale
Source * College Transitions*
Amherst and Williams are also listed as colleges that send the highest percentage of graduates to top-ranked medical program.
Amherst
Williams
Swarthmore
Pomona
Columbia
Cornell
Dartmouth
Duke
Harvard
John Hopkins
MIT
Princeton
Rice
Stanford
Berkeley
University of Pennsylvania
University of Chicago
Washington University
Yale
Source College Transitions