NESCAC Spoken Here: 2023 version

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@NiceUnparticularMan

Rather, I would imagine people could use it as a launching point for discussions like, “Well, if you find those particular NESCAC schools interesting, have you thought about these other non-NESCAC schools?” But I am not the thread creator so of course that is just a suggestion.

Yes, and I believe you made that point on the other thread:

NESCAC Spoken Here

By the way, this seems like a handy place to quickly note that I think for some people (like my S24, in fact), there is some concern about whether an isolated small LAC might end up feeling limiting eventually. Many people end up loving the experience anyway, but I can understand the concern. So my suggestion was he might want to check out LACs in areas where there are a lot of other colleges/universities, and specifically the ones in official “consortiums” that allow course-sharing, have shuttle buses, and so on. It turns out he currently isn’t interested in California schools, so for now the Claremont Colleges are out. But the “Quaker Consortium” in the Philly area and the “Five Colleges Consortium” in Western MA are both live options. Relevant to this thread, the Five Colleges include Amherst, and also Smith, Mount Holyoke, Hampshire, and UMass-Amherst (to me it is an attraction to have a full university in the mix, and Hampshire is an interesting alternative-format college tha…

And just like the other thread, I believe this one will find its voice and follow all sorts of strings and sub-strings. If I’m the so-called, “thread creator” (I think of myself more as the thread rescuer), then I hereby decree that comparisons between NESCAC colleges and non-NESCAC colleges like, Vassar, Mt. Holyoke, Smith, Swarthmore, Haverford, Pomona, Pitzer, Claremont-McKenna, Oberlin, Scripps, Harvey-Mudd, Barnard, Wellesley, Davidson, URichmond, W&L, Kenyon, Sewanee, Macalester, Union, Colgate, Lehigh, Lafayette, Dickinson, Allegheny, Bryn Mawr, Carleton, Grinnell, Occidental, Reed, Skidmore, Denison, and Colorado College - are welcome.