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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Maybe Lafayette or bucknell but for the rest....none.[/quote]

Wut?

My DC is at Denison with $26K/year in merit aid.[/quote]

Yeah, Denison gives merit aid.  Their net price calculator says a student with parents making 500k a year and a 3.75 gpa and 31 act gets 24k a year[/quote]
Wow! Had no idea. Insisted on instate.[/quote]

We just did the Ohio tours.

Wooster is a College that Changes Lives school that really, really impressed me, and they do an ton of aid. Denison does. Kenyon and Oberlin do, but you would need higher stats (but not ridiculous).  Next up for us? Grinnell and Macalester, which are also generous with merit aid for smart kids. Lots of CTCL schools out there that are excellent and have great merit aid, if you look for them. [/quote]

I loved pretty much all of the Ohio schools.  [/quote]

Wooster was the eye opener for me.  Kenyon and Oberlin I knew.  Wooster?  I knew nothing going in. But they are teaching hardcore science research and writing and practical skills (we were looking at the science department), and then requiring every graduate to do a major senior thesis.  If you are English, you are writing a book or play.  Or doing social science research, Etc.  So much hands on research going on among the undergrads, and such nice, smart, down to Earth kids.  Who love the school.  And not just the kids leading tours— the ones we stopped and talked to who were working in the library.   Most years they have 100% med school placement, and one of the highest per capita PhD attainments in the nation among grads. With an unbelievable percent of alums donating.

My kid really wants to apply. And I would be all for it, except... my kid is at TJ.  And the issue isn’t that Wooster somehow isn’t good enough. It is.   But, the Wooster science skills practicals and science research and writing classes and senior project closely track the TJ curriculum. So I would need to really talk to someone at the school and be convinced he would be getting added value, and not a rehash of HS, or that he could place out of classes where he had the skills. Otherwise, I think it would be a wonderful place for him to be, and would encourage intellectual risk taking and creativity and exploring passions in a way TJ does not because there are so few electives.

Kenyon impressed me. Oberlin impressed me.  We skipped Denison because it was missing an academic program my kid wants.  But Wooster was something special.  If you make the trek to look at the Ohio SLACs, I would encourage you to read the CTCL profile on Wooster and go tour.  I significantly underestimated them.

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Grinnell is the class of all the schools that you've listed, gives excellent merit aid to top students (which your TJ student undoubtedly is), and has a very strong science program.  Its endowment is a billion dollars more than oberlin and denison and macalester and five times wooster.  It has a lot of money to spend on the sciences -- you'll see when you tour.[/quote]

I absolutely love Grinnell on paper. My kid is balking at Iowa. But wants the 2000-3000 SLAC experience and needs merit aid. He has been told that he is going with me in the spring, when he is far enough along his junior year to interview on campus. If I am paying for college, he is going to at least look at a school that has absolutely everything he wants, at least on paper.  He tends to resist the unknown, so I am hoping being on campus will help it click. But I agree— impressive place. [/quote]

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