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[quote=Anonymous]All great schools. Your hook is being a boy that's interested in majoring in the humanities. Stress that on the app. All of the top schools are starved for smart young men that want to major in English, Philosophy, Classics etc. Dial that to 10 on the application. And then take a look at the admissions data from your high school. Universities often have preferences for certain high schools. And they also ding other high schools for whatever reason. Look for patterns over the past three years. It's usually very clear which universities like students from your high school. And which don't. Take that into consideration when choosing how to strategize with ED1 and so on.

Sounds like this is a pretty easy going kid who'll do fine anywhere. That list is all over the map though. So, hard to give a meaningful suggestion.

Personally, if you want to go to a SLAC, I'd do Bowdoin with the ED. They seem to get pretty sane kids. Williams seems like it's intense 24/7 and not a terribly happy school if you're not part of their thing. But winter in a small town in Maine. Not for everyone.

For the bigger schools, Vanderbilt would be good but it's such a hard, fluky admit that I'd hesitate using the ED card there. I think it'd be great to study humanities at Notre Dame, but that is such a particular cult-like school, so really do a vibe check. Also, they do like their upper middle class/wealthy Catholic school kids so check your NY private school's data before applying ED. Rice is fantastic but very STEM-y, yet with really good humanities departments and the residential college system. Would think about that one, but a humanities boy might not be on the same nerd wavelength as other students. Northwestern seems kind of out of sorts these days. Another school that made its rep in the 90s as a fun, smart school - like Stanford - and then kind of lost its way and doesn't quite know what it is anymore. So by process of elimination, Chicago for the other ED contention. Traditional life of the mind school, but have worked hard over the past decade to get over the where fun goes to die thing. Everyone seems to rag on Chicago a bit, but I think they know what they're doing. They're building classes that are broader in scope than those of yore while keeping the smartness. And it's a school where applying ED is going to be advantageous. [/quote]

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