college - tell me about "the best kept secret" schools - anyone have one?

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I hear Occidental is a real stepping stone.

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College of the Holy Cross is another great, and what seems to be, up and coming school of interest among high school juniors and seniors

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Scipps College. It's part of the Claremon College in CA and it's amazing.

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Anonymous wrote:Scipps College. It's part of the Claremon College in CA and it's amazing.

Those 5 are about as big a secret as Amherst.

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Southwestern University in Georgetown, TX - suburb of Austin, TX - great liberal arts school and has a good endowment to help with merit-based aid - and other aid- and coming from the Northeast is an asset to their diversity figures so they may try harder to get you to come.

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Bucknell.

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Rice, University of York (UK not Canada), Pomona, Claremont McKenna

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College of the Holy Cross in Worcester Mass

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Anonymous wrote:My vote is for Kenyon College.

Looks great! Only $50,400 per year to live out in the middle of Ohio.

You know nobody actually pays full freight anymore, right?

Not true - we expect to pay full freight. 65% of Kenyon students get financial aid. If my DC is accepted we will be in the 35% of students who don't.

$180K in family income seems to be the cut-off for financial aid unless you have one than one in college.

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Anonymous wrote:College of the Holy Cross in Worcester Mass

Hmm..I went here. didn't know this was a 'secret'.

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Anonymous wrote:We are going to visit St Marys College next week - Maryland's attempt to create a William & Mary equivalent. But we are having a lot of trouble with this concept. Our junior wants liberal arts, 2-3000 students. She can't get into top tier (e.g., Williams). The options seem to drop off rather quickly.

If you've got $$$, what about Rollins in Florida? It's a great small school but very posh.

Isn't that more of a party school for rich kids? That may be my dated view though.

It still has that reputation (and I think somewhat deservedly so), but it's academic reputation has improved greatly over the last 25 years. There are some very bright kids who go there.

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Anonymous wrote:My vote is for Kenyon College.

Looks great! Only $50,400 per year to live out in the middle of Ohio.

It's a great school, but it's always had a reputation of being "liberal." Might be what you'd prefer.

[Anonymous]

The best secret I know of is the Oxford campus of Emory University. It is located just outside Atlanta and provides a smaller campus with much easier admissions than Emory. You then transfer to the regular Emory campus after 2 years and your degree just says Emory. Nice for kids who may want a good school with some size but may need a little time to adjust first.

http://oxford.emory.edu/

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I am the originator of this thread and I want to thank those of you who shared good solid information and experiences.
DD made her choice a few weeks ago and I found so much of what you all shared to be quite helpful. And she in fact chose a school that was mentioned in this thread that we originally knew little about.

[Anonymous]

Thanks for the update, but now I'm curious where she's going.