S/o Midwestern college tour

[Anonymous]

We will be doing one of these over spring break and so far only have three schools on the list (Northwestern, UChicago, and Notre Dame.). Any other ideas?

[Anonymous]

Michigan.

[Anonymous]

Washington University in St. Louis. The facilities and dorms are great and my son and his friends are very happy there and intellectually stimulated.

[Anonymous]

Michigan
WUSTL
Carnegie Mellon
Case Western
Wisconsin

[Anonymous]

University of Wisconsin Madison

[Anonymous]

How far is STL from Chicago? That's going to be our 'base' city...we want to spend some time just doing city stuff there in addition to the colleges. I'd be fine Wisconsin and Michigan and CW since they're at least on the path, but not really interested in adding a huge leg to our trip.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How far is STL from Chicago? That's going to be our 'base' city...we want to spend some time just doing city stuff there in addition to the colleges. I'd be fine Wisconsin and Michigan and CW since they're at least on the path, but not really interested in adding a huge leg to our trip.

300 miles.

[Anonymous]

DePauw, Kenyon?

[Anonymous]

Purdue and Miami of Ohio

[Anonymous]

Chicago has lots of fun stuff to do. Great museums, restaurants, shopping, beautiful lake and river views and architecture. If you make it to Madison there are good restaurants and lake views also. Drive up Observatory Drive overlooking the lake heading towards the Lakeshore dorms. Beautiful.

[Anonymous]

Are you only looking at STEM schools?

I would do UofM, Rose Holman, CWRU, and Carnegie Melon.

Although Michigan/Indiana/NE Ohio/Western PA might be a different long weekend than the Illinois/Wisconsin trip.

[Anonymous]

Thinking about some "safer" schools, assuming your kid wants medium to large universities (and also assuming you are driving?):

Miami (OH)
Pitt

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Are you only looking at STEM schools?

I would do UofM, Rose Holman, CWRU, and Carnegie Melon.

Although Michigan/Indiana/NE Ohio/Western PA might be a different long weekend than the Illinois/Wisconsin trip.

+1 Pitt and CMU can be done on a weekend from DC.

Maybe Lake Forest in Chicago if you are open to a SLAC?

[Anonymous]

+1 Purdue

[Anonymous]

Are you talking same caliber or safety? I think U.Chicago is the only elite elite school in the midwest, although Northwestern comes the closest. But there are plenty of good but not top 10 schools out there worth checking out, like Michigan and Wisconsin.