School Suggestions

[Anonymous]

Maybe consider St. Olaf if she is not opposed to a few Minnesota winters. It's really a delightful school that is less than an hour to the Twin Cities.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Interested in going to LA? My DD was looking at those mid-size schools and liked USC, Pepperdine and Loyola Marymount.

Pepperdine and LMU are mid-size. USC is large (20k undergrads + 27k grad).

But it's not a big state school - about same UG enrollment as BU. I mentioned it bc my DD also liked Georgetown and Emory.

Gtown has 7500 undergrads, Emory is close at 7k. BU and USC are almost three times as large at 20k, much more like a large state school (except that BU doesn't have the school spirit and D1 sports; I think of BU as sort of similar to GWU for environment style). USC feels really quite large. A lot of energy on campus and big sports, but definitely feels large, for what it's worth.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Maybe consider St. Olaf if she is not opposed to a few Minnesota winters. It's really a delightful school that is less than an hour to the Twin Cities.

To clarify, OP is not looking for an LAC an hour from a city.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Interested in going to LA? My DD was looking at those mid-size schools and liked USC, Pepperdine and Loyola Marymount.

Pepperdine and LMU are mid-size. USC is large (20k undergrads + 27k grad).

But it's not a big state school - about same UG enrollment as BU. I mentioned it bc my DD also liked Georgetown and Emory.

BC is way closer to Emory and Georgetown for environment than BU.

[Anonymous]

What does she want to do with her degrees? What types of internship or research opportunities is she interested in. That is how I would choose.

[Anonymous]

“There really aren't a lot of private schools between 5000 and 15000 worth going to.”


This is not true. Many, many schools are worth going to

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:“There really aren't a lot of private schools between 5000 and 15000 worth going to.”

This is not true. Many, many schools are worth going to

+1. There are 33 schools in the top 50 in that size range. The problem is merely that many of them are more selective than their similarly-ranked large publics (I think that reflects an issue with the ranking itself). Almost all privates in the top 100 are mid-size, with a few exceptions, though there are fewer in the back half 50-100, only around 20-ish, because the rest are large publics.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:“There really aren't a lot of private schools between 5000 and 15000 worth going to.”

This is not true. Many, many schools are worth going to

+1. There are 33 schools in the top 50 in that size range. The problem is merely that many of them are more selective than their similarly-ranked large publics (I think that reflects an issue with the ranking itself). Almost all privates in the top 100 are mid-size, with a few exceptions, though there are fewer in the back half 50-100, only around 20-ish, because the rest are large publics.

(for ranking, I am referring to the top 100 National Universities list from US News)

[Anonymous]

"Worth going to" is also subjective. It depends on the alternative (which state flagship) and how much the student wants to avoid that state flagship.

[Anonymous]

How does she feel about the Claremonts? They’re each small but they’re almost always considered a block where they become 5,000+ students

[Anonymous]

Will you be full pay? Do you have a target budget all-in? Is 3.8 W or UW? Coming from public or private and in which state or DC?

[Anonymous]

My DD visited BU and said, "$75k for a school stuck in the 1960s???"

[Anonymous]

William and Mary? Size she wants...not urban. It is a Virginia state school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Will you be full pay? Do you have a target budget all-in? Is 3.8 W or UW? Coming from public or private and in which state or DC?

OP here. Full pay. MCPS. Unweighted.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Will you be full pay? Do you have a target budget all-in? Is 3.8 W or UW? Coming from public or private and in which state or DC?

OP here. Full pay. MCPS. Unweighted.

Also GPA is on “upward trend.” Straight As junior year (unless second semester is pass fail which is looking increasingly likely).