Liberal Arts Colleges not in Rural Areas
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Anonymous
| OP mentioned Colgate, HC, Trinity, Bucknell, Colby and W&L all not remotely woke. Some analytical skills are helpful. OP did not mention Vassar, Wesleyan etc. |
Anonymous
Nah. The tri colleges are all on the Main Line, easy fast access to Philly, in small towns that are essentially suburbs. They aren’t really rural. |
Anonymous
Alright? I don't always read into those things. I just thought "OK, top 50-ish LACs" New England and Northeast also make me think the poster may be leaning away from the South and Midwest for a reason. |
Anonymous
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Are you willing to go just slightly further South? Because we really liked Meredith in Raleigh, NC.
It is an all women's college just a mile from NC State. The campus is so pretty and tucked away, but there are busses right off campus to take you to NC State and/or downtown. Students can also take classes through a consortium with NC State. |
Anonymous
Notice you excluded Bates and Hamilton even though OP mentioned those as well. Couldn’t quite shoehorn those into your excuse to complain about school’s being too woke. OP is looking at LACs in the NE and mid Atlantic. I suspect the wokeness quotient, whatever the F that is, is not the greatest concern. How’s that for analytical skill? |
Anonymous
| The Claremont colleges, Haverford, Macalester, Reed, Sarah Lawrence, Swarthmore. |
Anonymous
+1 Haverford and Swat are not the same thing as Hamilton and Colgate. I’ve been on all 4 campuses and only the latter two have that feeing of isolation. |
Anonymous
Ignore this jag. Some people on this board always want to stir the pot about how woke this or that school is. |
Anonymous
| OP, have you looked at mid-size universities? If you are open to somewhat bigger sizes, there are more choices for urban and/or suburban. |
Anonymous
They are not. They're in the affluent suburbs of Philadelphia, fewer than 15 miles away and on commuter train lines. |
Anonymous
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OP, if you are open to western LACs and small universities, you could consider:
Lewis & Clark (Portland) Reed (Portland) Willamette (Salem) University of Puget Sound (Tacoma) Oxy (LA) Pomona/CMC/Mudd/Scripps/Pitzer (Claremont) Seattle U Santa Clara (My personal favorite western LAC is Whitman, but in one direction the campus is less than 2 miles from wheat fields, so not what you're looking for ....) |
Anonymous
Saying I "lived in the Midwest" doesn’t automatically mean you know Columbus. The Midwest is huge. Living in Indiana doesn’t mean you understand Columbus any more than living in DC makes someone an expert on Boston. It's a city; there are literally hundreds of things to do. My DC likes to go into Columbus to shop, eat, attend OSU games, and go to bars. Denison also has a program called Denison Edge in Columbus. They just hosted an event there for Jeff Selingo, who named Dension a "dream school" in his new book. https://denison.edu/news-events/featured/159972 If anyone thinks their kid might be interested in Columbus but hasn’t been, I’m sure they would take some time to research it and will find tons of info, but here’s a quick link to start: https://www.experiencecolumbus.com/events/this-weekend/ Having an international airport also makes Columbus easy to get in and out of and it's only a 31 minute drive to Denison. |
Anonymous
| tufts?? |
Anonymous
| Families that like Colgate, W&L and said they liked Trinity and HC, most likely want to avoid woke schools, Bates is woke but that’s an outlier. |
Anonymous
The south?!? That defeats the whole purpose. |