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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Quirky. Introvert.  Music more than sports. STEM. 
Sounds awfully familiar.  Some liberal arts colleges are top producers of science PhDs.  They are great as long as you aren’t looking for engineering.

Try:
Vassar
Wesleyan
Oberlin, 
Kenyon
Wooster (strong safety)
Grinnell
Macalaster
Carleton
St. Olaf (great safety for that profile)
Bowdoin ( it’s a reach. So is Williams)
Maybe Bates

Not SLAC, but also try: Case, Rochester, W&M, Pitt for rolling decision (a yes from a school in December is really nice)

Most of these schools are easier for boys to get into than girls.  Because the applicant pool is skewed

You probably want to skip the sports amd prep school heavy ones like:
Hamilton
Colgate
Union
Middlebury
Colby
Williams
Union
Denison
Washington & Lee[/quote]

Williams shouldn't be lumped in with these schools. A shy, quirky, music-loving kid will definitely find his people there. And if he loves, it would be hard to do better than Williams, which holds a mathematics REU every summer, where Williams students are guaranteed half the spaces.
https://math.williams.edu/small/[/quote]

I'm a Williams alum and would agree with the immediate PP above.  I'd also say the same of Hamilton and Midd, based on recent experiences of my kids' friends.  Yes, all these schools will have plenty of athletes, but athletes can be shy and quirky too, you know.  (I was one :)) [/quote]

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