Best mid-size target colleges for Northeast/Mid-Atlantic/South?

[Anonymous]

UVM?

[Anonymous]

Fairfield

[Anonymous]

Pitt, Tulane, and UVM are good suggestions so far.

The big question for anyone looking for midsize and urban-ish is, How do you feel about Catholic universities?

[Anonymous]

Pitt is lovely but I don’t consider it mid-size with 25,000 undergrads. I’m also sensing the kid may not want urban as the description given was “lively town” or nearby city. OP, you gotta give us more details, including basics on your student’s profile.

[Anonymous]

Emory

[Anonymous]

If that kid is extremely high stats (3.9+ / 1500+) and reaching for midsized schools like Duke/Northwestern/Vandy/Brown/Cornell etc., maybe good targets would be Wake, Lehigh, Richmond, University of Rochester, and Boston College?

Or are those three not really targets for anyone, including very high stats kids, given their admission rates? (I don’t know much about them other than they seem to fit the size/location OP requested.)

[Anonymous]

Why pay 90-95k to go to Lehigh, URochester and BC. Save money and go to a flagship state school. Those schools are multiple layers below Duke and Northwestern.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:William and Mary hits a lot of your wants, but need stats and budget to give better recommendations.

I really liked W&M, but I feel like Williamsburg falls short on this: " Likes a lively town or city nearby."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:None of those worth the money. SEC schools or Penn State, and Pitt better options.

First: all of your alternate suggestions are large of very large, not mid-size
Second: Most of those schools are better than any or the alternatives that you suggested.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why pay 90-95k to go to Lehigh, URochester and BC. Save money and go to a flagship state school. Those schools are multiple layers below Duke and Northwestern.

Utter nonsense, none of those schools is "multiple layers" below any school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why pay 90-95k to go to Lehigh, URochester and BC. Save money and go to a flagship state school. Those schools are multiple layers below Duke and Northwestern.

Our flagship is UVA. According to the scattergrams, DC is not getting into UVA unless they ED. This is why.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Pitt, Tulane, and UVM are good suggestions so far.

The big question for anyone looking for midsize and urban-ish is, How do you feel about Catholic universities?

Agree with this - we had similar criteria and most of the catholic universities fit the bill:

Marquette, SLU, LMU, Duquesne

FWIW we are not catholic and felt DC would feel comfortable at any. LMU in particular was one of the most liberal schools we visited over all.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Pitt, Tulane, and UVM are good suggestions so far.

The big question for anyone looking for midsize and urban-ish is, How do you feel about Catholic universities?

Agree with this - we had similar criteria and most of the catholic universities fit the bill:

Marquette, SLU, LMU, Duquesne

FWIW we are not catholic and felt DC would feel comfortable at any. LMU in particular was one of the most liberal schools we visited over all.

Are you on multiple threads advertising the merits of catholic schools? Every time they "fit the bill".

[Anonymous]

My DD applied to and was accepted by Syracuse (Maxwell School) and Fordham -- she was looking for mid-size in a city, rather than a "lively town". Good merit from Fordham. Their locations might not work for you given parameters but worth a look.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why pay 90-95k to go to Lehigh, URochester and BC. Save money and go to a flagship state school. Those schools are multiple layers below Duke and Northwestern.

Our flagship is UVA. According to the scattergrams, DC is not getting into UVA unless they ED. This is why.

JMU is your obvious likely.