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[quote=Anonymous]I liked the CTCL book, which is basically about helping people understand the value of small colleges and then a list of some *examples* of small colleges that are not (or were not) highly selective. There are plenty of colleges that are similar to the CTCL list that are worth considering in the same set. The list hasn’t been updated in over 10 years. So, definitely need to do your due diligence on the current status of schools in that set. Some have gotten a lot more selective, others less so and some in earlier editions have closed/merged. This college counselor wrote  blog post several years ago about other schools that are similar and worth considering: https://educatedquest.com/colleges-that-should-be-colleges-that-change-lives/

My DD is a freshman at Juniata and considered several on the CTCL list + the list linked above. Juniata became her favorite. I know there are at least a couple other Juniata parents on here since I read their comments when we were researching the school. I’ve written about her experience recently so you can find that by searching.

One thing I don’t think I’ve mentioned is that as she was considering a bunch of small schools that were generally safeties/good merit for a B+ student I was really focused on understanding the financial footing and the schools’ trends, strategic plan, etc. i.e. we didn’t want to pay for a school on the way down that would be closed in a decade. I liked that Juniata seems to be on an upswing. This year’s freshman class is one of the largest in their history. There’s a lot of construction on campus. They recently had a very successful capital campaign plus high profile large donation dedicated to expanding the environmental science field station program (her major), completely rebuilding the library (now the “learning commons”), building up the music program by refreshing the performance hall + offering music scholarships (she gets an additional $5k/year for that), and a recent large donation is targeted to upgrading housing. It also tends to rank well on the PhD feeders list.

In addition to attending admitted students day, I really recommend doing their “Eagle for a Day” visit. My DD didn’t like the huge group events but that visit let her sit in on a biology class, meet with an environmental science professor, and have lunch with a couple bio/ES students. After that I don’t think she really considered anything else on her list. 
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