rank the nescac

College Search & Selection
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<p>Williams
Amherst
Middlebury
Bowdoin
Wesleyan
Tufts
Colby
Hamilton
Bates
Trinity
Conn Coll</p>

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<p>Bowdoin (2009)
Wesleyan (2009)
Amherst (2006)
Williams (2005)</p>

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<p>Racial/Ethnic Diversity (based on 2008-09 CDS) (total % of AA, Hisp., Asian, NA):</p>

<p>Williams (30.96%)
Amherst (29.93%)
Bowdoin (27.4%)
Wesleyan (25.9%)
Tufts (25.6%)
Middlebury (19.3%)
Trinity (19.1%)
Hamilton (16.5%)
Bates (13.74%)
Colby (13.70%)
Conn. (13.0%)</p>

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<p>Post #61 is pretty accurate. Trinity and Connecticut College tend to also be ranked lower in the US News/Forbes rankings compared to the other NESCAC institutions. So publications cement their reputations whether justified or not.<br>
One could interchange Hamilton and Colby’s position too.
Good work!</p>

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<p>Top 6 of NESCAC I would send my children (inspired by earlier posts).
As someone who attended a NESCAC college myself and had many friends attending others, my choices would be the following based on “overall satisfaction”:</p>

<p>1) Williams
2) Bowdoin
3) Hamilton
4) Middlebury
5) Connecticut College
6) Bates</p>

<p>Prestige is wonderful, but I think overall satisfaction is a better indication for ranking these wonderful 11 experiences. :)</p>

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<ol>
<li>Williams</li>
<li>Amherst.
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the others</li>
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<p>Wesleyan - 22%
Tufts - 20%
Trinity - 15%
Middlebury - 14.5%
Amherst - 13%
Bates - 10%
Bowdoin - 10%
Colby - 10%
Connecticut - 10%
Williams - 10%
Hamilton - 8%
[Hillel’s</a> Guide to Jewish Life on Campus - Hillel: The Foundation for Jewish Campus Life](<a href=“http://www.hillel.org/HillelApps/JLOC/Search.aspx]Hillel’s”>http://www.hillel.org/HillelApps/JLOC/Search.aspx)</p>

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<p>^ Leave it to johnwesley to come up with a list in which Wesleyan is number one. Haha!!</p>

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<p>Amherst
Williams
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Tufts
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Middlebury, Bowdoin
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Wesleyan
Hamilton
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Colby
Trintity
Bates
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Connecticut</p>

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<p>Ah, the return of Hockeykid! I thought my list would smoke out your barely concealed snobbery. And, in record time, too.
<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/wesleyan-university/1191404-what-has-happened-wesleyan.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/wesleyan-university/1191404-what-has-happened-wesleyan.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>More than a little late to this thread but some Trinity facts to consider:</p>

<p>Trinity top 3 in annual giving at 55% participation
Consistent New England champions in football
Longest winning streak in college baseball and near perfect season (1 loss)
More Fulbrights in last two years than Amherst and Williams
Top feeder school to elite graduate programs (ahead of Tufts, Colby, Hamilton and Conn)</p>

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<p>oops!</p>

<p>% of Alumni Giving , LACs</p>

<p>64% , Carleton
61% , Amherst
60% , Williams
58% , Middlebury
55% , Bowdoin
54% , Davidson
51% , Wesleyan
50% , Swarthmore
50% , Wellesley</p>

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<p>oops!</p>

<p>NESCAC Football Champions </p>

<p>Year Champion </p>

<p>2011 Amherst
2010 Williams
2009 Amherst<br>
2008 Trinity
2007 Middlebury
2006 Williams</p>

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<p>Most confused for something else:</p>

<ol>
<li><p>Trinity: Is that Jesuit?</p></li>
<li><p>Bates. Where’s the motel?</p></li>
<li><p>Connecticut College.</p></li>
</ol>

<p>“I go to Connecticut College.”
“Go Huskies!”</p>

<p>And the winner is–</p>

<ol>
<li>Williams </li>
</ol>

<p>“Williams? Oh, in Rhode Island.”</p>

<p>Southern variant:</p>

<p>“Look up my cousin at William and Mary.”</p>

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<p>This thread made my day. I read it and started laughing out loud. I do have a legitimate question. My son is considering Tufts, Amherst, Williams and maybe Middlebury (and some other DIII schools; he is going to play a sport). Can anyone give me a profile of the typical student at each of these schools, and what social life is like?</p>

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<p>By endowment per student *
Amherst
Williams
Bowdoin
Middlebury
Hamilton</p>

<h2>Colby</h2>

<p>Wesleyan (endowment: $196K/student **)
Trinity (endowment: $181K/student)
Tufts (endowment: $144/student)
Bates (endowment: $104K/student)
Connecticut (endowment: $99K/student)</p>

<p>Source:

<p>Wesleyan seems to be an over-achiever in terms of the magazine rankings it manages to achieve relative to its available money. Washington Monthly ranks it second among the NESCAC LACs. It spends more money annually on research than any other LAC in the country, much more than the other NESCAC LACs.</p>

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<p>This thread definitely got me laughing. It’s interesting to see how Colby (the school I was be matriculating at) ranks up to the other NESCAC schools. Keep 'em coming!</p>

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<p>I will be*</p>

<p>Hmm. Sorry, maybe it was because I was texting my sister about where I committed and she was trying to push Berkeley. Anyways, my mistake!</p>

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<p>Sailing</p>

<p>Conn Coll
Tufts
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Mostly everyone else
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.Williams</p>

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<p>Have spent a couple of years looking at these schools as my daughters decided early that they wanted to attend and play sports in the NESCAC (the conference has created great branding). So I premise with these are all fantastic schools. (I don’t include Tufts because it’s just so darn different than the rest. Great school, but it’s a larger urban university.)</p>

<p>Academically - if you look at SAT scores, % in top 10% of HS class, % accepted, endowment, and retention, they come out in the following pairs. I’ve include US News Rankings(), which closely matches the other parameters:</p>

<p>I. Amherst (2) & Williams (1)
II. Bowdoin (6) & Middlebury (4)
III. Hamilton (16) & Wesleyan (17)
IV. Bates (22) & Colby (18)
V. Connecticut College (41) & Trinity (38)</p>

<p>Campus - purely a personal preference. Trinity is a great campus, but bordered by some terribly neighborhoods. Bates gets a bad rap on town, but I disagree, campus is great and town is a normal American town. Wesleyan is frumpy, but hey, it’s a frumpy school and some people really like that. The top two are what you’d expect if a Hollywood movie was constructing a New England campus - stunning. The two middle groups are merely fantastic campuses.</p>

<p>I. Hamilton, Middlebury
II. Bates, Colby, Bowdoin
III. Amherst, Williams, Connecticut College
III. Wesleyan, Trinity</p>