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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]help need safeties/matches:

My child is a junior at a big 3 with GREAT grades and a strong kind of unique extracurricular. Otherwise unhooked, we can swing full pay and have saved up, but merit somewhere would be amazing. Our kid likes a medium to large sized school in an urban/city area but with a campus i.e Columbia not NYU. A big fun college town can work too.

High Reaches: Princeton, Yale, Duke, Northwestern (I know these are basically impossible will choose one or two to try)
More  reaches Wesleyan, Emory , Michigan, Cornell
Target: Wisconsin, University of Toronto, Syracuse
Safety? UVM? Colorado? Indiana

Please help with targets and safeties (though we are very aware there seem to be no true safeties these days)- Are there medium sized schools 5000-8000 kids we are missing?

Yes -we asked our College Office  is suggesting a lot of slac's and they are too small or too rural. I know everything is random and difficult to predict.

Hoping the great DCUM hive mind will have some suggestions! Thanks in advance.[/quote]

Curious how you came to decide upon Wesleyan which doesn't seem to jive with size or city preferences.  Burlington and Bloomington also have less than 100k residents.[/quote]

OP here good point- but tor kid felt the Burlington was a cute town (we visited). Agree about location of Wes. and size but it was a little bigger than the other SLACS so it's on the long list to look at.

And to the other PP, the snarky person who asked why we are asking the DCUM group- I already addressed that. Yes- I am paying $50,000K and was flummoxed by the list provided by our college office. Are you happy now? What is your excuse for lurking, reading the post, then needing to be mean and unhelpful?

I have actually found there to many nice supportive people with great knowledge bases on DCUM, so I wanted to hear from them. Thanks for the good suggestions from many of you so far- Major: probably Psychology or biology but maybe history. Kid is still undecided.[/quote]

My husband went to UVM 20 years ago so maybe it’s too far from now to care but it’s not nearly as good a school as it once was and Burlington is cute but it’s hard to find work after graduation. He doesn’t want our kids to go there. [/quote]

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