Which LAC you will go full pay

[Anonymous]

Barnard

[Anonymous]

Claremont McKenna, Williams, and Harvey Mudd have excellent ROIs relative to cost: https://www.payscale.com/college-salary-report/bachelors

[Anonymous]

I dont think so. Probably only MIT, Stanford and a couple of Ivies. We'd have borrow about 3 semesters.

[Anonymous]

Top 30 for sure.

[Anonymous]

Bucknell

[Anonymous]

Any NESCAC minus two

[Anonymous]

OP , You are either full pay comfortably, and will pay for whatever fits your kid best, or you are not and you are looking at lower cost, merit, alternatives; and or trying to divine difference between the T5-25 LACs (there isn’t really)

[Anonymous]

Davidson and CMC

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Any NESCAC minus two

1. Wesleyan because it's too woke.
2. Tufts because Worcester sux.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Any NESCAC minus two

1. Wesleyan because it's too woke.
2. Tufts because Worcester sux.

Tufts isn't in Worcester

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Claremont McKenna, Williams, and Harvey Mudd have excellent ROIs relative to cost: https://www.payscale.com/college-salary-report/bachelors

In this case even you pay more, appears per the data to get paid well upon graduation a couple of years might make back the extra money paid.

[Anonymous]

Would you do Amherst (full pay) vs Macalester (25K merit/year) for a high achieving kid (doing linear algebra and diff eqs in 12th grade) interested in math, econ, and languages? My niece is still deciding. Her parents would like her to choose Mac to save money for their second kid in the next few years but prestige and academic rigor do matter to her (and them, as they've instilled that in her) and she wants to go to Amherst to find her like-minded peer group.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Would you do Amherst (full pay) vs Macalester (25K merit/year) for a high achieving kid (doing linear algebra and diff eqs in 12th grade) interested in math, econ, and languages? My niece is still deciding. Her parents would like her to choose Mac to save money for their second kid in the next few years but prestige and academic rigor do matter to her (and them, as they've instilled that in her) and she wants to go to Amherst to find her like-minded peer group.

I'm not sure a kid like this will find what she needs at a LAC. Wouldn't she be better off at a place where the faculty is active in research?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Pomona because it's a great school/fit and because my dad had a lot of life insurance and this is as good a use of that money as anything else

We didn’t do it. No aid offered and the travel to west coast adds up. My kid is really bummed, but one of the 25% that didn’t get any form of aid.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Would you do Amherst (full pay) vs Macalester (25K merit/year) for a high achieving kid (doing linear algebra and diff eqs in 12th grade) interested in math, econ, and languages? My niece is still deciding. Her parents would like her to choose Mac to save money for their second kid in the next few years but prestige and academic rigor do matter to her (and them, as they've instilled that in her) and she wants to go to Amherst to find her like-minded peer group.

I'm not sure a kid like this will find what she needs at a LAC. Wouldn't she be better off at a place where the faculty is active in research?

NP

Excellent point.

Agree that the student is too advanced to be limited by an LAC environment. Definitely needs an R-1 National University.