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[quote=Anonymous]Biggest differences are size (Universities like Tufts,  Emory, Wash U, Tulane, Rice, Vanderbilt and then the  Ivys with more like 5000-9000 undergrads adn then some grad schools) feel different than a smaller place like the NESCAC SLACs with no graduate schools.  Also being in cities (Gtown and Tufts).  The larger schools mostly seem to have a big Greek or Greek equilvalent social scene to help make the places seem smaller and more personal perhaps.

I have one kid at Midd and I went to Tufts.  Very different feel at Middlebury, more close-knit campus community and my kid knows her professors much better than I ever did.  Academically she works far far harder and is around far smarter kids than I was, but suspect that is more to do with evolution of all these schools to being more compeitive and full of better prepared students now.

At least from her HS, getting into Midd/Bowdoin/Williams/Amherst overall seemed harder than Tufts (somewhat, based on the what types of classes kids were taking in HS and how many were NMSFs). Georgetown from DC is super hard to get into unless a faculty/employee kid, those have preference and seem to take up most of the spots for local kids, at least according to my DDs college guidance counselor. [/quote]

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