Please recommend small/medium private colleges
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Anonymous
Nah..there are smaller private colleges within that list. |
Anonymous
Again, not what OP is asking for. Those are environmental engineering programs, all large schools and highly competitive. |
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| SUNY College of Environmental Science & Forestry |
Anonymous
| Dickinson, F&M, Gettysburgh |
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| University of Minnesota - Duluth has an excellent environmental science department. A lot of students intern with the DNR and go on to work in that field. |
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Clark
Quinnipiac Saint Mary’s of Maryland Xavier Denison Salve Regina (maybe too small?) |
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I’m the Jesuit school booster again. The problem I have with the suggestions being offered is that they’re largely small out of the way second tier liberal arts colleges. That works for only a certain kind of student.
A Jesuit university is typically larger, has more comprehensive — and often more practical — offerings and attracts a wider range of student types. They’re not dominated by navel gazing types. The students are smart and engaged and career focused. Most also have good but not all consuming sports programs that unite the student body and make it fun. And very few if any have Greek programs. OP says “up to 10,000.” Most of the suggestions here are far, far smaller than that. My sense is that they’re too small. |
Anonymous
Ah! Then I agree that SMCM, Dickinson, Clark U, Washington College, are all great. Maybe Lafayette and F&M? |
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University of Dayton.
about 8,000 undergrad students, good merit aid, not a big Greek life school or overly rah-rah, not a pressure cooker. |
greenleaf19
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I have added so many schools to the list from this thread! I'm now working my through websites and data to see which might be best to suggest to my son.
To the Jesuit poster--Jesuit schools were not in my sight at all, but I've just added Fordham and Loyola MD. Thanks! As for size, my son says he is fine with both small and medium schools, just doesn't want huge. |
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Hi OP.
My DS just started at one of the Colleges that Changes Lives and is over the moon!! His school is mentioned above. He only considered two of these but I have positives about most. Please consider CTCL carefully. They do give significant merit. As to Jesuit schools, which I was also pushing him to visit, he was accepted at St. Joe’s in Philly, where the admitted students day was quite off-putting on multiple levels. Later someone told me that Jesuit schools can be insular and provincial - that’s what we both felt there. Admitted student day at Loyola MD was totally different - I came away very excited but my kid not so much and did not say why. Good luck!! |
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F&M focuses on need based aid over merit aid. Merit is available, but F&M doesn’t give as much as other schools. |
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Why do posters persist with the fiction that CTCL schools are somehow related to each other and share anything in common other than they have banded together to market themselves? |
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| Schools ranked in the 50 to 100, like Juanita, Lake Forest, Lewis & Clark, Wooster, Drew, Sewanee, Knox, Kalamazoo, Randolph Macon… those schools will give him aid. |
Anonymous
You're projecting. Go re-read OP's posts. There's nothing in them that says CTCL schools would be too small or too academic for her kid. To the contrary, her posts suggest that at least the larger Jesuit schools might be too big and too sporty. (Which isn't to say she should just dismiss them all--I don't think she should--but she'd be crazy to dismiss all the CTCL schools just because you don't like them.) |