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[quote=Anonymous]Here's my order (not USNWR): Swarthmore, Amherst, Williams, Wesleyan, Haverford, Pomona, Middlebury, Vassar, Bates, Hamilton, Harvey Mudd, Skidmore, Trinity, Connecticut College, Dickinson, Colgate, Colby, Davidson

your kid will get a great education at any of these schools. If you are full pay, you'll have a slight edge at some of them because they are not all need blind, except for the three or four at the top of the list, but those schools are extremely selective, just as hard to get into as many of the Ivies.

My kid is very shy, and she went to a SLAC (not on the list above, although she got into some of them) instead of a big university. It made a huge difference for her, and I'm sure it was the right choice, even though the school didn't offer as much research opportunity as she would have gotten at a larger university. But we couldn't afford a selective private (none offer merit aid), so she went to a lower-ranked college.

She graduated at the top of her class, and she got a lot of recognition from her professors, which would not have happened at a larger school. She really stood out, and that helped her self-confidence a lot. She made a handful of nice friends, but there weren't a lot of kids at her intellectual level, which was one drawback of her SLAC. [/quote]

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