Have you considered SMCM or UMW as safeties? Both are smaller public schools and strong in liberal arts.

Anonymous wrote:It’s a strange list. A kid that finds their people at Haverford or Kenyon is not going to be the same kid that likes Lehigh. Have you visited these schools yet op?

Kid certainly prefers Kenyon and Haverford to Lehigh and Bucknell, but trying to have a long enough list. Have visited all schools.

Anonymous wrote:Wooster as a safety?

Was going to post this.

Perhaps Muhlenberg as well.

It’s a strange list. A kid that finds their people at Haverford or Kenyon is not going to be the same kid that likes Lehigh. Have you visited these schools yet op?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Goucher

Not to be neurotic, but if kid's scores and GPA are really high, will safeties sniff out that they are safeties and candidate is unlikely to attend - and therefore reject?

Most safeties are not yield protecting. If schools yield protect, they aren't safeties.

Here are some schools that might yield protect:

https://blog.collegevine.com/what-is-yield-protection-tufts-syndrome

Anonymous wrote:Goucher

Not to be neurotic, but if kid's scores and GPA are really high, will safeties sniff out that they are safeties and candidate is unlikely to attend - and therefore reject?

Potential safeties:

College of Wooster
Juniata College
Knox College
Lawrence University
Lewis & Clark College
Muhlenberg College
St. Olaf College

Maybe Pitzer

Goucher

Can someone name some safeties.

Anonymous wrote:You don’t have enough safeties. For small liberal arts colleges extracurricular activities are more important. The college needs to ensure that it assembles an active and engaged class.

What safeties would you add?

Wooster as a safety?

You don’t have enough safeties. For small liberal arts colleges extracurricular activities are more important. The college needs to ensure that it assembles an active and engaged class.

For a local option, why not add SMCM? Seems like a more SLAC-like environment than UMD, and based on some of the others on your list, your kid wouldn’t rule out a campus without a walkable town nearby (as mine did, otherwise our list would’ve looked similar).

Kid has 4.2 and 35 ACT. Very limited ECs. Looking for SLAC with supportive community and mellow vibe.

Bard
Vassar
Union
Franklin and Marshall
Kenyon
Bucknell
Lafayette
Lehigh
Haverford
UMD (as a local option)

Is this a varied enough list?