Ideas for safeties?

[Anonymous]

My junior has identified Pomona, Pitzer, Colorado College, and Brown as top schools. He's interested in studying economics or another quantitative social science (not business). He is not at all interested in sports. Where should we consider for safeties?

[Anonymous]

Wisconsin

[Anonymous]

UMBC, UMD, any state flagship.

[Anonymous]

You have to give us more. Region of the country? Size of college? Vibe? Special programs and interests?

I would definitely find a few likely/safeties that your kid would happily attend, so spend time researching them.

[Anonymous]

Kansas State University, Penn State University,for Community Development and Economics

[Anonymous]

OP here. He would prefer small to midsize school. Any safeties that aren't large publics?

[Anonymous]

There are hundreds of schools like this that are safeties compared to Brown.

W&M, Elon, Denison, Santa Clara?

[Anonymous]

Match:

Skidmore

Rochester

Likely

UVM

Bard

Safety

Goucher

[Anonymous]

Kenyon

[Anonymous]

Maybe Muhlenberg, Skidmore, Juniata, St. Mary's College of Maryland if in MD

[Anonymous]

Oh, ues, Bard too

[Anonymous]

The New School has some famous social science programs.

[Anonymous]

Gonzaga, Denison, Loyola Marymount, Trinity, Wilamette, University of Denver

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My junior has identified Pomona, Pitzer, Colorado College, and Brown as top schools. He's interested in studying economics or another quantitative social science (not business). He is not at all interested in sports. Where should we consider for safeties?

Some instate publics for match/safeties. Based on your list, I wouldn't worry about out of state public. Not enough values given you will have to pay OOS tuition with less chance for merit/other financial grants.

Otherwise, for Econ majors, here are some good ranking to review:

https://ideas.repec.org/top/top.usecondept.html (University ranking)
https://ideas.repec.org/top/top.uslacecon.html (LAC ranking)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP here. He would prefer small to midsize school. Any safeties that aren't large publics?

IMO, the challenge will be that any private small to mid-size school that a kid with stats for Brown and Pomona would be willing to attend and parents willing to pay for is going to be tough to find. They may also need to show enough demonstrated interest that the school, wouldn’t defer/waitlist them and offer enough merit/be at a price point that the parent is happy with the option. Generally speaking if they are willing to look at Catholic schools there are several like Gonzaga, University of Dayton, Loyola Maryland, and Providence College that come to mind that likely have a decent number of business/econ majors, strong alumni base and high acceptance rates. If Catholic schools aren’t on the list, maybe look at the midwestern LACs that are T40-T80 where acceptance rate is at least 50%.