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[quote=Anonymous]OP, your kid sounds completely amazing. And the schools he has to choose from are pretty awesome, even if it does seem crazy he was shut out of the Ivies etc.

Williams is tip-top in terms of academic/professional reputation. And on our recent tour, the student guide was a URM who loved it there. It is a *stunning* campus, even on a cold March day.

But just be forewarned, it's really really isolated. I have another kid at a Maine SLAC who loves his campus despite its rural/downtrodden environment. But Williams was next level.

I was expecting something more like Dartmouth, with a small but picturesque college town. Nope. On our drive into the campus from Boston, we passed amazing scenery but then lots of burnt down houses. There is no Uber available in the area and when the taxi company got a flat, my DH almost missed his flight home. My kid couldn't get out of there fast enough. It's a super prestigious school and obviously lots of kids love it but I'm sharing this bc it would have helped me to set my kid's expectations a bit better.

At the same time I wanted to put in a good word for Rice. I'm an East Coast person but spent 2 years in Houston and Rice is a gem of a school. Houston is also a great, underappreciated city - hugely diverse and international, great food and lots of fun, and the area around the university is beautiful. The weather is awful but the worst months are those when colleges typically aren't in session.

Good luck, and I hope you come back to this thread and tell us which school your DC picked![/quote]

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