Liberal Arts Colleges not in Rural Areas
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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. |
Anonymous
| DD liked Holy Cross did not like Colgate-way way too remote. Looking at Wake and ND also. |
Anonymous
Whole purpose of…? |
Anonymous
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Among top 25 LACs not many options in cities. Can only think of Holy Cross.
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Anonymous
The Claremont colleges aren’t in a city. They are in the small town of Claremont, CA and a looong drive to LA. And there’s no reason to go the other direction to San Bernardino. |
Anonymous
| Davidson — near Charlotte but in a lovely, bucolic town |