All Liberal Arts Colleges (LACs) (2025-2026)

[quartz kindle]

Fuck you

. /s

[abstract oyster]

Oh rly how come if you don’t mind saying

[quartz kindle]

How is making shit

More boring

Than sitting down and thinking about doing shit

[cunning plover]

No bro gimme quantum any day but the day someone tells me go study circuits i give up

[cunning plover]

Uhh very confusing decision but idk camb was my dream school like forever and it feels wrong to turn it down

[quartz kindle]

How's mechanics

[quartz kindle]

Oh my friend is going to oxford

[cunning plover]

but i change my mind twice a week so before i decide gonna change atl 20 more times

[quartz kindle]

Where else did you get accepted into?

[cunning plover]

Eh better than electrical but i prefer fully theoretical

[quartz kindle]

Did you take further maths?

[cunning plover]

Oh same, my best friend got oxford and i got camb and we keep arguing abt which is better

[cunning plover]

I do IB so math AAHL

[quartz kindle]

Well obv

[cunning plover]

In UK i got Camb, LSE, UCL, Warwick, Durham. US was amherst bowdoin, W&L, Vandy, Washu and some others

[quartz kindle]

Woowee

What major

Did you get 77777?

[cunning plover]

UK politics US double major of pol sci and physics

[abstract oyster]

ahhh my fav subject lol

[cunning plover]

My predicted was 44/45

[quartz kindle]

Does UK not have any dual degrees

[abstract oyster]

yeah fairs

it’s a tough one tbh

[cunning plover]

Papers this week and its 2am and im not studying or sleeping😭

[abstract oyster]

But thankfully you can’t go wrong

[quartz kindle]

Full pay?

[cunning plover]

nah not at all

[abstract oyster]

😭

[cunning plover]

Nah, got aid

[quartz kindle]

Hehe

Same

I'm doing 10 papers as soon as I wake up dw

[quartz kindle]

Full aid? For us unis

[cunning plover]

Not full, around 60-70% i think

[quartz kindle]

Vanderbilt got a great engineering program

[cunning plover]

I get too bored doing more than 1 a day

[quartz kindle]

Awww

Little boy needs his dopamine?

[cunning plover]

Yeah 1 paper and 3 hrs of reels

[quartz kindle]

Thats mot too bad

[cunning plover]

Love that school asw

I need to get started on my other subjects though everything this week

[quartz kindle]

Did 5 papers during this day

[loud ocean]

Only ones that are explicit up front

[cunning plover]

Oh damn

[abstract oyster]

I somehow did 2 a day for IB physics

[cunning plover]

Oh same i think

[abstract oyster]

Single handedly traumatized me from ever doing physics ever again

[cunning plover]

Except like relativity and feilds i used to enjoy it

[abstract oyster]

At least it went alright overall I think, I mean paper 1 was the easiest thing I’ve ever done but some of p2 was questionable

[abstract oyster]

Really I like A5

I got every relativity question right

[cunning plover]

but whenever those stupid asf right hand left hand bs came my head hurt

[cunning plover]

Yeah quite similar for me i feel. P1 was nice

[abstract oyster]

I always get that shit wrong 😭

[cunning plover]

Oh damn, was fun but tough imo. took me a while to get the hang of it

[cunning plover]

Same. Worst topic by far

[quartz kindle]

A levels better

Too many humanities in IB

[cunning plover]

EE was too much fun

IB worth it for just that

[abstract oyster]

Yeah I liked my IAs

Low key my TOK too

[abstract oyster]

Agreed but afterwards it became free marks

[cunning plover]

i liked all except math. math ia annoyed me too much

[cunning plover]

I never reached that point but yeah was nice

[abstract oyster]

You just have to stop overthinking

[abstract oyster]

I loved my math is

[cunning plover]

The topic was invented by people overthinking everything they knew

[cunning plover]

Oh nice. Math was my least fav IA

I enjoyed physics chem GP a lot

and IO

[abstract oyster]

Oh I cooked so hard in my IO

Someone told me my English teacher played it to his DP1 class 😭

Which is embarsssing

[cunning plover]

I have no idea how i did our teacher didnt tell us😭

[abstract oyster]

Fr

[cunning plover]

Oh damn thats impressive

[abstract oyster]

Yeah even if VERY embarrassing icl

At least it means I did very wel

[cunning plover]

Okay imma go sleep now cause i need tomo to be productive else im screwed

[cunning plover]

Yeah

Im gonna miss IB english

[abstract oyster]

Yea fairs lol

[hearty summit]

i based it off of what the college ranked each factor. for example some are listed as very important, important, considered, somewhat important, and not considered

shhhh dont disprove me

[loud ocean]

Yes, my point is that those have no actual basis

[hearty summit]

🤫🤫🤫

why woukd the college rank them as such then?

[loud ocean]

Like they don't specifically mean anything

[hearty summit]

and deliberately put things like rec letters over gpa in importance

[loud ocean]

Because the federal government forces them to

[hearty summit]

i thought it means the college considers rec letters more over gpa

how does the gov force them to say that rec letters r more important than gpa to them

[loud ocean]

Than the number? Sure. Highly selective schools don't just look at the number

[loud ocean]

It forces them to fill that out

[muted cloud]

I mean, realistically the admissions process is too opaque to know if that's valid or not. Regardless, stats clearly matter to Grinnell if they have an average GPA of 4.05 and a mean SAT of 1468

Most liberal arts institutions are going to be mildly more holistic, but selective schools can also afford to reject somebody for virtually anything they deem glaring

[hearty summit]

i was going more off the sat side since the person was surprised that they accepted a 1420 sat intl

[muted cloud]

i mean i was test opt

[hearty summit]

their mean sat is not high at all for their selectivity and lacs are simply just very hollolistic and forgiving to lower stats

realistically for a 13% ar college their mean sat is very low

i can see gpa tho

[muted cloud]

Many schools implement a policy that a low score simply won't be considered if it'd hurt their application, as they could've just gone test optional. I don't believe Grinnell is officially one of those schools, but I imagine its probably considered in a similar way.

Holistic review is a beautiful thing since they'll just emphasize other parts of your profile if your scores are low(er)

the idea that SAT or ACT scores is the end all be all doesn't apply nearly anywhere anymore though--if you're attending a T10 they might want to see higher scores, but even then that'll just be the standard rather than "a 1600? we MUST accept this kid"

my friend had a 1450 I believe and got into UPenn lmao

the other thing is that average SAT numbers are incredibly inflated right now thanks to test optional policies--leads to very deceptive numbers that really should be taken with a grain of salt

[loud ocean]

Holistic also doesn't mean "ignores academics"

It means looking at more than just

[tough mantle]

Yeah my friend got into Cornell engineering with a 32 ACT

[muted cloud]

and then the president of the university lwk slimed them out

[tough mantle]

What

[muted cloud]

did you not hear the accusations against the cornell president

[tough mantle]

Nah

[hearty summit]

hit some students with a car

i think the students were protesting in support of palestine and they were near his car

then eh backed up into two students and hit them

[tough mantle]

Oh

[muted cloud]

i've heard that its disputed whether or not the president actually did it

[tough mantle]

Rip

[muted cloud]

like it isnt confirmed if that was the president

but then I think that got solved

but now they're saying that the students surrounded their car and there wasn't really another choice

[tough mantle]

Maybe don’t press the gas pedal

[muted cloud]

ok so

hypothetically

[tough mantle]

That’s something within your control

[muted cloud]

your car is surrounded by a bunch of demanding delinquients

do you sit there and do nothing

and potentially get harmed

or do you try to get away

[tough mantle]

Ok that’s fair

[floral coral]

it's probably wrong to surround someone's car for basically no reason i will say

[muted cloud]

MAYBE as a prostester you dont sit behind somebody's car when they're trying to move said car

[floral coral]

but maybe it would have been better for him to try to get guards to disperse them? although that could have taken a long time

[tough mantle]

In my defense I thought maybe these were peaceful protesters

[muted cloud]

call the fucking royal guard

LMAOO

[floral coral]

no like

the school police

[muted cloud]

apparently they were protesting the suspension of like 80 peaceful prosters

[floral coral]

that are probably within 1 minute of the spot

[muted cloud]

i also know "peaceful prostesting" is usually a generous term these days

[floral coral]

eh, play stupid games win stupid prizes

i dont feel really that bad for them but from an optics standpoint probably should have gotten the police to disperse them

[tough mantle]

Dang college kids

[muted cloud]

i always hate arguments like that since it doesn't follow logical human processing

it always reminds me of this clip hol up

[floral coral]

what do you mean

[muted cloud]

those kinds of arguments always remind me of this clip

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DHUPtWTuJk

[floral coral]

i mean i dont think it's an insane thing to say you should get police to disperse protesters that are all around your car lol

i feel like doing stuff on your own accord here is more likely to get yourself into trouble with the law or get a horrid reaction from the protestors threatening your safety

[muted cloud]

if you were surrounded by 5 people, are you thinking "gee wilikers, oughta call the police!"

[floral coral]

i dont think what he did was morally wrong i just think it was wrong for his own self-being

[muted cloud]

that my point

[floral coral]

yeah i literally never argued that it was morally wrong

[muted cloud]

im not saying you did I'm just saying that's a little silly

i mean its impossible to know until more comes out

but

you see what im getting at here?

[floral coral]

i mean just in my pov i feel like theres a higher chance someone reacts violently to you if you try to run them over ASAP

i dont blame him though

just that people are crazy and sometimes acting chill and getting someone else to do the dirty work for you is what is needed to stay safe

[muted cloud]

i have a sneaking suspicion something was already instigated if they're surrounding his vehicle

idk

like i getchu

and yeah it would've been better for PR

but idk if that was a plausible outcome at least from the little bit of info thats out

[floral coral]

thats fair

i think kids take this stuff too seriously... a school investing in the S&P does not meaningfully aid genocide

[glass hornet]

What’s going on

I love lacs

[hearty summit]

it depends who you ask. the two sides are both saying different things

the president claims he was being harrassed while the protestors say that they were peaceful and were only standing outside the car

but either way he could have honked the car or made any similar signal to show that he wanted to back up his car to prevent this

backing the car when students are standing behind it is reckless and it shouldve been obvious that he'd get more backlash from it

[floral coral]

agreed! just seems stupid to do

like even if i dont think it was so morally wrong it just feels like he's quite a fool for not anticipating the fallout...

[cunning sable]

you’re making it sound like they were busting his windows in

i don’t think he was in any danger of being taken out by 5 people standing stationary next to his car lmao

[summer cradle]

do u !

[glass hornet]

Unfortunately no😭

I was wondering about the experience

[hearty summit]

are you trying to go to the wokest lac? since you asked

udub is pretty woke 👀 just saying

it's seawoke wokeattle

[boreal fjord]

macalester is definitely up there as well !

helped me make my decision i will say

[primal prawn]

you have no idea what your talking about lmfaooo

[quartz kindle]

I'm talking abt employability rate from my sources?

Ofc there are other factors

[primal prawn]

what does that even mean

employability

[quartz kindle]

The biggest of which is that MIT students usually don't go to finance

[quartz kindle]

https://www.collegetransitions.com/dataverse/top-feeders-banking/

[primal prawn]

that doesnt mean its not one of the TOP schools

[quartz kindle]

I've never said it wasn't?

Are you illiterate?

[primal prawn]

your basing your opinion on MIT not being one of the strongest feeders into finance from "college transitions"

[quartz kindle]

I'm not

MIT used to be my top school

I don't think your contextualizing properly

[primal prawn]

what am i contextualizing wrong

[quartz kindle]

Please read before you start berating me on me not knowing how MIT is

[primal prawn]

you said its not t30 for undergrad fin placement

or around that range

which is incredibly wrong

[quartz kindle]

I was saying it doesn't make it into t30 of feeders

[primal prawn]

and what makes you think that

lmao

[quartz kindle]

Because most undergrads don't go to finance

[quartz kindle]

What makes u think otherwise? Do u have sources?

[primal prawn]

?

[quartz kindle]

https://www.collegetransitions.com/dataverse/top-feeders-banking/

[primal prawn]

brother

[quartz kindle]

I've sent it 3 times

[primal prawn]

just because there isnt a huge influx of students going into it per the size of the school does not mean its not a top feeder

they will take a mit studen over a umich ross

or nyu stern

[quartz kindle]

MIT is good at quant, hedge, and fintech

But finance is larger than that

And most people at MIT dont want to do finance

[primal prawn]

and your just wrong again

[quartz kindle]

*You're

[primal prawn]

most people in MIT go into quant simply because its the easiest fit into the skill set

[summer cradle]

be nice guys

[primal prawn]

the point is these baanks want the smartest students

[quartz kindle]

He started it

[primal prawn]

MIT is a signal of that

most go into those not because MIT itself is not a strong feeder, but because its a more natural transition

[quartz kindle]

U said it urself

"MIT itself is not a strong feeder"

[primal prawn]

read what i wrote again

"not because MIT itself is not a strong feeder"

[quartz kindle]

Ah my bad

[primal prawn]

you are right in the idea that a LOT less target sell side fin due to a harder transition, but if they choose to do MIT is on the playing field of havard wharton princeton etc

[quartz kindle]

I thought MIT has a less straightforward pipeline tho compares to other finance schools

[primal prawn]

not all, its just less prevalent

not at all*

not a huge amount people go into that so it may be less obvious, but its strength itself is undeniable

[quartz kindle]

Eh rankings r worthless anyways

[quartz kindle]

Besides if you looked at why I said that it was cuz some kid was dissing dartmouth

[primal prawn]

dartmouth is also a top feeder

[quartz kindle]

Exactly

[hearty summit]

what

oh

he left the server?

[crude shadow]

Full blown MBA btw

[upper glade]

Yo did the amherst appeal go through

[quartz kindle]

Got banned

Not his main as well

His main got banned aswell

[muted cloud]

Most obvious ragebaiter ever

Not gonna hold yall

[cunning plover]

Nah 😭

[upper glade]

im sorry man where u committed now?

[cunning plover]

Committed to amherst only, but likely gonna go to the UK instead

[upper glade]

ahh do you have any offers rn

ib finals been frying me

[cunning plover]

Yeah I firmed cambridge insuranced LSE now just gotta meet the conditionals

42/45 with 776 in hls😭

[cunning plover]

Same bro this week is my worst ohe

[upper glade]

for both??

[upper glade]

bro same

econ math

[cunning plover]

For me chem math spanish

[upper glade]

LSE 776 is crazy icl

is that common

[cunning plover]

Cambridge. Lse is 38 with 666 which is quite chill

[upper glade]

ohh thats fair

gl bro cambridge mogs amherst anyways

[cunning plover]

Debatable icl I love them both

[upper glade]

WL movement for amherst has been like

dead silent

im in shambles

is amherst w aid more expensive than cambridge for you damn

LACs lowk be lowballing intls

[cunning plover]

Would generally be same cost but I'm getting some more support for cambridge so it's less

[cunning plover]

Yeah for many LACs I think

[upper glade]

ohh like external scholarship

[cunning plover]

Yeah

[upper glade]

thats nice