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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Thanks - OP here.  Will be going more carefully through the list.

Let's see - trying to answer some questions asked.

I was thinking Amtrak as a marker as making it more accessible - one two levels.  First, kid who doesn't drive has places to go, second it's probably not terribly isolated.  Also making an assumption that flying is more expensive.

Kid has a strong preference for schools that are not isolated - with an urban feel or close walking opportunities off campus.

Our "close list" probably mirrors the standards everyone mentions - yes to Delaware and Pitt.  Also Towson.  JMU was only school south of DC.  Also considering West Virginia, but haven't visited.  Kid really liked the feel of Westchester, but didn't like Temple or Drexel or St Joe's or Duquesne.  Did not like Christopher Newport or ODU either.

It's hard on this board sometimes - when everyone is posting about T25 and 1580 SATs and all the successes (which are awesome!  I do not begrudge!) and it's just harder to evaluate where your mostly B some As some Cs absolute disaster with standardized testing kid might even be accepted.  It was hard for my kid to realize that schools that other family members went to - UVA, UMD - were out of reach.  It's also hard at school when friends are considering Pitt and Delaware safety schools to think those are your reach schools.

I thought Vermont was a stretch - I should have looked before Nov 1, but until people answered here I really thought it was harder to get into.

Kid just really dislikes the heat.  Wants cooler weather, and I just thought we didn't have anything that really is a different sort of climate from DC.

Finally, we live in DC, and the DC TAG program for state schools factors heavily in parent likes (but also kid has somehow really responded well to public universities and feels most SLACs are too small.)

Thanks - wish I had asked earlier!   [/quote]

[b]University of New Hampshire.  On Amtrak - goes to North Station in Boston[/b] as well as points north such as Portland, Freeport and Old Orchard Beach.  Buses to Portsmouth and Hampton Beach.  Don't need a car on campus.  Skiing and outing clubs.  Sports culture - football and hockey.  Good food.  Down to earth people.

Not as hard to get into as UVM. U Maine is extremely isolated - close to nothing.

Good luck.

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+ 1 for all these reasons. To go south to DC, you could bypass South Station entirely and take  the local Orange Line (subway) from North Station to the Back Bay Amtrak station. This would be easy for an urban kid. [/quote]

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