Anonymous wrote:Case Western
Connecticut College
University of Pittsburgh
American
Wooster
Skidmore
Syracuse
Baylor

For kids who want big state schools: the University of Delaware; the University of Florida.

For kids who want a conservative approach to the liberal arts: Hillsdale.

For kids who want a very progressive approach to the liberal arts: Bard, Sarah Lawrence, Lewis and Clark, maybe Beloit.

For kids who want women's colleges: Pitzer, Hollins, Simmons.

For kids who want internships on the Hill: American University, Catholic University, GWU.

For kids who wish they could get into Harvard but are realistic: Boston University; Suffolk University.

For techie kids: WPI; Florida Institute of Technology. Rose-Hulman (I think that's just for men).

For kids who appreciate beer: Bucknell.

For kids who wish Northeastern were on this list: Drexel.

For kids who want to make make movies: USC. And maybe Marymount?

Anonymous wrote:I work for a university which participates in a tuition exchange program which means my DC may get a free tuition if accepted by one of the universities on the list.

https://telo.tuitionexchange.org/schools.cfm

The chance of winning this free tuition seems pretty low but anyway, which school on the list would you recommend applying to?

Wow, OP, what an opportunity!

Here's my very subjective list based on schools I've visited or known kids who went there.

You have many excellent choices OP depending on your child's interests!

Mills solid women's liberal arts college in CA
Occidental in LA, great small liberal arts college Barry Obama went there for two years before transferring to Columbia
USC -- film studies!
Connecticut College NESCAC school, excellent LAC
Trinity College great squash team, good LAC in Hartford
American - politics, excellent liberal arts college
GW -- large, urban, nice school, decent engineering
Rose-Hulman for engineers
Tulane - excellent LAC, good engineering, good overall
Goucher College LAC, horseback riding! innovative president, solid academics, dance program is great
MICA -- art!!
St. John's -- very small, very good for the right student who wants classic great books education
BU - large, urban, good school overall
Clark good LAC
Worcester Poly - excellent for engineers
Hampshire, for groovy kids who like to do their own thing, excellent academics
Sarah Lawrence -- excellent LAC, good for writers
Case Western - large, good engineering, solid
Ohio Wesleyan - LAC, good for underachievers
Bucknell (hard to get in! what's it doing on this list?) excellent LAC with good engineering
Franklin & Marshall -- excellent LAC, hard to get in
Lafayette good second tier LAC, laid back atmosphere
Johnson & Wales -- cooking!
Bennington -- good LAC, good for writing, dance, the arts
U of Richmond -- fairly good LAC

Agnes Scott is right in the heart of Atlanta, if your DC is a girl. Plus they have dual degree programs with Emory which is next door.

Anonymous wrote:Word to the wise: the Tuition Exchange awards are highly competitive at most schools. Students will typically need to have stats near that school's 75th percentile or above in order to be offered an award. You'll want to apply to a good number of them (10 or more) in order to have a decent chance of getting multiple offers. Some schools time it so that the TE award comes at the same time the student is accepted, which is great; others will have a long lag time, so you may have to wait a few more months to find out; others will put you on a TE waitlist which means it can take until late spring or even summer to know anything.

They are definitely competitive. Many TE schools report that less than 10% of TE applicants get it.

OP, the universities will list what percent of TE applicants actually get the award (and even then, may not be 100% of tuition). A lot of the popular schools - BU, Tulane, AU, GW, Syracuse etc. have waaaay more incoming TE applicants than outgoing so the odds of getting a TE scholarship are really low bc they try to balance imports with exports.

I work for a school on that list and have been through this with all three of my kids. It's a good program but proceed very very very carefully. if you click on each school on the link you gave, you will get the number/percent of students who get the scholarship and usually a blurb about how competitive it is. For example, less than 10% of students who apply for TE at Villanova get it, and "Tuition Exchange is a competitive, merit-based award at Villanova University. Villanova gives preference to upper-class students in awarding TE Scholarships."

Occidental? They get between 90 and 100 applicants for TE and award a whopping two TE scholarships per year. Someone mentioned Bucknell, and they don't offer the award to incoming freshman. Fordham? 150 applicants for 20 spots.

Word to the wise: the Tuition Exchange awards are highly competitive at most schools. Students will typically need to have stats near that school's 75th percentile or above in order to be offered an award. You'll want to apply to a good number of them (10 or more) in order to have a decent chance of getting multiple offers. Some schools time it so that the TE award comes at the same time the student is accepted, which is great; others will have a long lag time, so you may have to wait a few more months to find out; others will put you on a TE waitlist which means it can take until late spring or even summer to know anything.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Need some more information about what your kid is interested in.
For example, there are some good art schools on that list, which I might have my child do if it were less expensive. (Pratt)

And for girls--Mt Holyoke

then there is Pitzer College, Occidental, and Santa Clara U in California. Plus have heard good things about ST Mary's Maryland. It's not all about some other's (or USNWR's) call on "status"

you and kid are going to really have to dig in and do research, but I bet it will be worth it for thousands of dollars

DC is interested in social sciences, prefers strong academics over other things, a place where a non athletic non partying kid can fit well, urban setting

LaSalle
Drexel
St. Joseph's
Temple
Villanova
Pitt
Duquesne
Point Park
Seton Hall
Adelphi
Fordham
Hofstra
Pace
BU
Clark
Emerson

Richmond
U Delaware
Elon
Worcester Poly
Pepperdine
U of Florida
Fordham

Definitely Pitt!

Anonymous wrote:Need some more information about what your kid is interested in.
For example, there are some good art schools on that list, which I might have my child do if it were less expensive. (Pratt)

And for girls--Mt Holyoke

then there is Pitzer College, Occidental, and Santa Clara U in California. Plus have heard good things about ST Mary's Maryland. It's not all about some other's (or USNWR's) call on "status"

you and kid are going to really have to dig in and do research, but I bet it will be worth it for thousands of dollars

DC is interested in social sciences, prefers strong academics over other things, a place where a non athletic non partying kid can fit well, urban setting

can't go wrong with Pitt

Fordham

Furman

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I work for a university which participates in a tuition exchange program which means my DC may get a free tuition if accepted by one of the universities on the list.

https://telo.tuitionexchange.org/schools.cfm

The chance of winning this free tuition seems pretty low but anyway, which school on the list would you recommend applying to?

FYI only some of the schools cover 100% of tuition. Many use the "set rate" which I believe is a maximum of $39K per year. Which is still quite generous of course, but look into the details for each school so you're well-informed about what your cost would be.

I didn’t realize that. Thanks for pointing it out.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Tulane!

Elon

Or one of the plethora of Catholic universities.

Also seeing a lot to offer in PA

- Bucknell

- St Joseph's

so many in PA that I'm sure are excellent but I don't know about

Lafayette College and University of Pittsburg are also good schools in PA