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[quote=Anonymous]OP, I haven't read through this entire thread so forgive me if I repeat what others have said.

My 3 kids ("intellectual and well-grounded" I guess) have gone to W&M and 2 of the SWAMP SLACs so I know a little about this subject.

My WM kid has also heard bad reviews of the St Andrews program. But the IR program at WM is very good, and the school is a bargain.

Please don't write off Haverford - all my kids really liked it and the kids we know who go/went there like it and have done well post-grad. For the arts, the large, open makerspace made an impression on me. It was in this converted gym building, full of light and windows - very beautiful https://www.aia.org/showcases/186611-haverford-college-visual-culture-arts-and-m
Haverford is also need aware, so if you're not applying for aid, your kid gets a little admissions bump.

Tufts should be on her list - it's a little bigger, but has a great IR program.

As you know, most of the SLACs mentioned are reaches, so I wouldn't write off Williams or Amherst just for that reason - they're not any harder to get into than Bowdoin, Bates, Middlebury, Tufts, etc. Look at what SLACs take kids from her high school. While looking at Naviance for DC2 we noticed that one of the SWAMP schools seemed to accept a kid or two from his school every year. His stats matched so he applied - and got in, RD no less. Turns out one of the deans went to that HS and so they think highly of it.

Good luck![/quote]

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