What colleges/universities are like this?

[Anonymous]

What other schools have the following attributes, which Vanderbilt has; these characteristics are extremely attractive to my child:

-cohesive campus feel, with all students clustered or living on campus for 4 years
- easy to double major, even across colleges (e.g., anthropology and HOD)
- strong campus community/vibe which is not diluted by being in an urban area/neighborhood
- access to restaurants/resources outside campus
- social fun energy
- newer dorms with AC

Thanks for any suggestions. Open to SLACs

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What other schools have the following attributes, which Vanderbilt has; these characteristics are extremely attractive to my child:

-cohesive campus feel, with all students clustered or living on campus for 4 years
- easy to double major, even across colleges (e.g., anthropology and HOD)
- strong campus community/vibe which is not diluted by being in an urban area/neighborhood
- access to restaurants/resources outside campus
- social fun energy
- newer dorms with AC

Thanks for any suggestions. Open to SLACs

What are your kid's stats??

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What other schools have the following attributes, which Vanderbilt has; these characteristics are extremely attractive to my child:

-cohesive campus feel, with all students clustered or living on campus for 4 years
- easy to double major, even across colleges (e.g., anthropology and HOD)
- strong campus community/vibe which is not diluted by being in an urban area/neighborhood
- access to restaurants/resources outside campus
- social fun energy
- newer dorms with AC

Thanks for any suggestions. Open to SLACs

What are your kid's stats??

junior at a rigorous non-DMV private HS.
3.88uw and 34 ACT (taking again).
nationally ranked EC.

[Anonymous]

One potential answer is Davidson, if not too small.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What other schools have the following attributes, which Vanderbilt has; these characteristics are extremely attractive to my child:

-cohesive campus feel, with all students clustered or living on campus for 4 years
- easy to double major, even across colleges (e.g., anthropology and HOD)
- strong campus community/vibe which is not diluted by being in an urban area/neighborhood
- access to restaurants/resources outside campus
- social fun energy
- newer dorms with AC

Thanks for any suggestions. Open to SLACs

Middlebury; Amherst and many other SLACs.
Most Ivies I think. Notre Dame.

Is Rice like this?

[Anonymous]

Georgetown has new dorms coming online.
You are required to live on campus for 3 years.
It has a very defined campus and my kid does take course across two different schools there.
Very social and fun.
Jesuit values give it a strong community vibe.

[Anonymous]

William and Mary. New dorms online for 2025.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What other schools have the following attributes, which Vanderbilt has; these characteristics are extremely attractive to my child:

-cohesive campus feel, with all students clustered or living on campus for 4 years
- easy to double major, even across colleges (e.g., anthropology and HOD)
- strong campus community/vibe which is not diluted by being in an urban area/neighborhood
- access to restaurants/resources outside campus
- social fun energy
- newer dorms with AC

Thanks for any suggestions. Open to SLACs

Middlebury; Amherst and many other SLACs.
Most Ivies I think. Notre Dame.

Is Rice like this?

I think so. Among the schools we looked at Vanderbilt, Stanford, Rice, Notre Dame, and WashU seem to fit the bill.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What other schools have the following attributes, which Vanderbilt has; these characteristics are extremely attractive to my child:

-cohesive campus feel, with all students clustered or living on campus for 4 years
- easy to double major, even across colleges (e.g., anthropology and HOD)
- strong campus community/vibe which is not diluted by being in an urban area/neighborhood
- access to restaurants/resources outside campus
- social fun energy
- newer dorms with AC

Thanks for any suggestions. Open to SLACs

Vassar has housing all four years, double majoring seems fairly common, and a lot of kids do a major plus minor or more than one minor (my DC did a major and two minors). DC knew people who had double majors like biology and drama, so double majoring in different disciplines is doable. The open curriculum makes that possible. Access to "restaurants/resources outside campus"--not sure what you mean by "resources" but the area around campus has a few restaurants; it's in a mid-sized city but the area near campus is fairly limited so there's no big row of lots of restaurants nearby, just a handful of them. (Up side? No bar scene across the street from campus!) Newer dorms with AC, well, not necessarily, but there is a wide variety of housing types including dorms, townhouses and apartment-style housing.

My DC would absolutely say it has "social fun energy" but at any college that really does depend on your kid's own nature, as in, how willing he or she is to go out and join things and get involved.

Of course everything really hinges on the majors/programs your student wants, and if those aren't at an ideal campus that fulfills your whole list, there are going to be compromises (like that AC in every dorm...not happening at many older schools). I really advise visits, once you narrow down a list that's based on the majors, curriculum approach, etc. Nothing replaces an in person visit, IMHO. We did not have Vassar on our radar at all, but added a day there to a few days of visiting other schools in the Northeast; the casual visit turned into DC putting it at the top of the list. I'm not saying that to push Vassar specifically, but to note that a visit can really make a difference. Other colleges that were great on paper and in other ways were knocked off the list after a visit. Best of luck to your DC!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What other schools have the following attributes, which Vanderbilt has; these characteristics are extremely attractive to my child:

-cohesive campus feel, with all students clustered or living on campus for 4 years
- easy to double major, even across colleges (e.g., anthropology and HOD)
- strong campus community/vibe which is not diluted by being in an urban area/neighborhood
- access to restaurants/resources outside campus
- social fun energy
- newer dorms with AC

Thanks for any suggestions. Open to SLACs

Middlebury; Amherst and many other SLACs.
Most Ivies I think. Notre Dame.

Is Rice like this?

I think so. Among the schools we looked at Vanderbilt, Stanford, Rice, Notre Dame, and WashU seem to fit the bill.

Emory?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What other schools have the following attributes, which Vanderbilt has; these characteristics are extremely attractive to my child:

-cohesive campus feel, with all students clustered or living on campus for 4 years
- easy to double major, even across colleges (e.g., anthropology and HOD)
- strong campus community/vibe which is not diluted by being in an urban area/neighborhood
- access to restaurants/resources outside campus
- social fun energy
- newer dorms with AC

Thanks for any suggestions. Open to SLACs

Newer dorms eliminates most top 25 schools, unless you mean recently renovated is ok.

[Anonymous]

UMiami

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USC

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What other schools have the following attributes, which Vanderbilt has; these characteristics are extremely attractive to my child:

-cohesive campus feel, with all students clustered or living on campus for 4 years
- easy to double major, even across colleges (e.g., anthropology and HOD)
- strong campus community/vibe which is not diluted by being in an urban area/neighborhood
- access to restaurants/resources outside campus
- social fun energy
- newer dorms with AC

Thanks for any suggestions. Open to SLACs

Middlebury; Amherst and many other SLACs.
Most Ivies I think. Notre Dame.

Is Rice like this?

I think so. Among the schools we looked at Vanderbilt, Stanford, Rice, Notre Dame, and WashU seem to fit the bill.

All the right choices that match these characteristics

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What other schools have the following attributes, which Vanderbilt has; these characteristics are extremely attractive to my child:

-cohesive campus feel, with all students clustered or living on campus for 4 years
- easy to double major, even across colleges (e.g., anthropology and HOD)
- strong campus community/vibe which is not diluted by being in an urban area/neighborhood
- access to restaurants/resources outside campus
- social fun energy
- newer dorms with AC

Thanks for any suggestions. Open to SLACs

Newer dorms eliminates most top 25 schools, unless you mean recently renovated is ok.

Renovated is good.
Thanks!!