Anonymous
Post 11/11/2025 09:43     Subject: Least pre-professional schools without being a grind
"1) accessible professors, classes taught by professors"

"maybe Reed"

With respect to the above, Reed places highly in this Princeton Review survey-based site:

Best Colleges for Classroom Experience | The Princeton Review https://share.google/dQaPskZbZqd5yZkID
Anonymous
Post 11/11/2025 09:41     Subject: Least pre-professional schools without being a grind
Anonymous wrote:Working on junior DS's long list. He has the stats to apply to the most rejective schools but of course needs targets and safeties too. His top priorities are: 1) accessible professors, classes taught by professors, 2) undergrads able to do meaningful research, 3) on the smaller side (under 8,000), 4) math and econ departments not predominantly attract students interested in finance and similar, 5) minimal Greek life. He thinks he wants to major in math/statistics, econ, or physics. His top choices now are Brown, Carleton, and maybe Reed.


He seems to know what he wants down to the tiniest detail and is obviously quite bright and industrious. So why do you have to work on the list and not him?
Anonymous
Post 11/11/2025 09:41     Subject: Least pre-professional schools without being a grind
Anonymous wrote:Wesleyan. As mentioned in other threads, there’s big overlap with Brown. Lots of research opportunities. Not at all preprofessional. Bigger than most SLACs (3000 undergrads and a few hundred grad students).


agree it’s a safety for many Brown kids - just about half of the kids my DC knee at Wes applied and were rejected by Brown. A step down from other schools mentioned. If he’s not an athlete not a fun place for a straight male for 4 years
Anonymous
Post 11/11/2025 09:40     Subject: Least pre-professional schools without being a grind
Something to add is looking at a living learning community / honors college at a state school.

For some targets / safeties:
St. Olaf (look at while visiting Carleton)
Colorado College
Grinnell

Anonymous
Post 11/11/2025 09:39     Subject: Least pre-professional schools without being a grind
If you would like to compare economics departments by faculty scholarship in the field, these analyses may be of interest:

Economics rankings: US Economics Departments at Liberal Arts Colleges | IDEAS/RePEc https://share.google/32Eh6MxDS5nLBqylp

Economics rankings: US Economics Departments | IDEAS/RePEc https://share.google/zXebaddPAz80uISDh
Anonymous
Post 11/11/2025 09:34     Subject: Least pre-professional schools without being a grind
WUSTL? It's known for premed rather than business/finance.
Anonymous
Post 11/11/2025 09:32     Subject: Least pre-professional schools without being a grind
This student may benefit from considering colleges with an available major in data science, through which he could choose economics, for example, as his applied domain.
Anonymous
Post 11/11/2025 09:30     Subject: Least pre-professional schools without being a grind
University of Rochester
Anonymous
Post 11/11/2025 09:30     Subject: Least pre-professional schools without being a grind
St Olaf
Grinnell
Macalester
Whitman
Wooster
Lewis and Clark
Anonymous
Post 11/11/2025 09:28     Subject: Least pre-professional schools without being a grind
Anonymous wrote:Working on junior DS's long list. He has the stats to apply to the most rejective schools but of course needs targets and safeties too. His top priorities are: 1) accessible professors, classes taught by professors, 2) undergrads able to do meaningful research, 3) on the smaller side (under 8,000), 4) math and econ departments not predominantly attract students interested in finance and similar, 5) minimal Greek life. He thinks he wants to major in math/statistics, econ, or physics. His top choices now are Brown, Carleton, and maybe Reed.


JHU fits perfectly.

Every undergraduate at JHU almost all participate in some research, with many started in freshman.

Top notch Econ but it’s a small department.

Only 30% Greek.
Anonymous
Post 11/11/2025 09:28     Subject: Least pre-professional schools without being a grind
Carleton 100% fits your descriptions.
Anonymous
Post 11/11/2025 09:25     Subject: Least pre-professional schools without being a grind
Tufts EDII maybe RD depending on his grades scores etc.

Anonymous
Post 11/11/2025 09:22     Subject: Least pre-professional schools without being a grind
Wesleyan. As mentioned in other threads, there’s big overlap with Brown. Lots of research opportunities. Not at all preprofessional. Bigger than most SLACs (3000 undergrads and a few hundred grad students).
Anonymous
Post 11/11/2025 09:16     Subject: Least pre-professional schools without being a grind
Amherst is extremely unpreprofessional, to the extent that people look down on students interested in finance/consulting
Anonymous
Post 11/11/2025 08:02     Subject: Least pre-professional schools without being a grind
Working on junior DS's long list. He has the stats to apply to the most rejective schools but of course needs targets and safeties too. His top priorities are: 1) accessible professors, classes taught by professors, 2) undergrads able to do meaningful research, 3) on the smaller side (under 8,000), 4) math and econ departments not predominantly attract students interested in finance and similar, 5) minimal Greek life. He thinks he wants to major in math/statistics, econ, or physics. His top choices now are Brown, Carleton, and maybe Reed.