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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’d group Swarthmore, Haverford and BM as one similar group (with BM being all women)- incredibly small, intense academics, students interested in a “life of the mind.” Dickinson could be a safety for this group. I’d next group Lehigh, lafayette, Bucknell (debatable whether to call Lehigh a LAC but I’d still group it with these others) with greek life dominating the social life and lots of well-rounded students (not as many rising PhD candidates but lots going onto law/med schools and jobs in finance). F&M and Gettysburg could be safeties for this group. I do not know much about the rest. [/quote]

This is a good start. The toughest to get into are Swarthmore, Haverford, and Lehigh.

I think seeing any more than two in a day is brutal.

If I were you, I'd come spend a night in Philly. See Swarthmore OR Haverford in the morning, and St. Joe's in the afternoon. St. Joe's is a very nice school, but it is not the preppy SLAC that some of these schools are. It would give you a true contrast to Swarth/Hav.

Then drive up to Allentown and knock off Lehigh and Lafayette the next day. If you are REALLY ambitious, maybe see Muhlenberg, but again, I think that's too much for one day.

If you are really into this, head northwest and see Bucknell and Gettysburg on the third day. After that, you should be brain-dead.

It's hard to tell you anything else unless we know what kind of kid you have. :) [/quote]

Lehigh is no longer that tough to get into, as they are expanding the size of the school with the new College of Health. [/quote]

Lehigh had a few years - classes of '24-26, where high admission rates reflected the opening of the School of Health and the university's need to populate it. However, in the most recent cycle, Lehigh had its highest number of applicants ever, and the admission rate was back down in the 20s (28%), in the range it was for a decade pre-pandemic. Still not Ivy or Top-LAC level, but competitive enough so that even a strong student should consider ED as a more reliable path into the school.

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