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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Unless I'm unaware of another school with the same name, Lawrenceville is a prep school.

Also I think the OP wanted to know about schools that were less difficult to get into than the Ivys, but still offered a great education. As PPs have noted before, places such as Swarthmore, Amherst, Williams, Middlebury, Wesleyan have very competitive admissions (low double-digit acceptance rates).

What's most important is to find the school that will most benefit the type of student. Some students need to be a bigger fish in a smaller pond to really solidify their self-esteem. That route has worked for a number of people I know. [/quote]

Maybe they meant Lawrence (in WI), since they mentioned Carleton in the same sentence?  Has anyone mentioned Bates or Bowdoin?

One related point on the "big fish/small pond" is that if you are interested in say, theater, you don't necessarily want to go to a school with a "good" theater program unless you are prepared to major in theater because your chances of being in a production are likely pretty small at a place that has a lot of theater majors (vs. a place that doesn't take theater as seriously as a department).  Likewise, if you were on a high school sports team and want to keep playing (but aren't good enough to be actually recruited), sometimes it's better to go to a school that isn't known for being strong in that sport.

A friend who went to a small college was able to do a whole range of activities (theater plus sports for example) that can be harder to do at a large school.[/quote]

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