Anonymous
Post 06/28/2025 15:49     Subject: Name your favorite schools for…
Rice is great, but make sure you demonstrate interest.

If Rice is appealing, the “really friendly smart kid” vibe is very present at W&M, as well, and it’s a much more likely admit. A Rice-caliber applicant would almost certainly get the Monroe Scholarship (top ~150 students per class) at W&M as well.
Anonymous
Post 06/28/2025 09:09     Subject: Name your favorite schools for…
Wellesley
Anonymous
Post 06/28/2025 09:08     Subject: Name your favorite schools for…
Rice! Not only for the academics, but the student body is friendly, diverse, and welcoming. The college system creates wonderfully supportive smaller communities. My daughter loved it. And she’s now in a PhD program, as are many of her friends.
Anonymous
Post 06/28/2025 09:01     Subject: Name your favorite schools for…
Anonymous wrote:Amherst, Williams, Swarthmore, Carleton, Pomona, Haverford, Hamilton, Wesleyan, Bowdoin, Davidson, Harvey Mudd, Smith

Nice list, to which I might add Reed.
Anonymous
Post 06/28/2025 08:59     Subject: Name your favorite schools for…
If this student finds sciences to be broadly appealing, the availability of a geosciences department may be of importance when considering colleges. Beyond geosciences as a potential major, electives in this field can be especially interesting.
Anonymous
Post 06/28/2025 08:18     Subject: Name your favorite schools for…
MIT
Anonymous
Post 06/28/2025 07:11     Subject: Name your favorite schools for…
These Princeton Review sites, which offer survey-based information pertaining to classroom experience, overall satisfaction and science lab facilities, may offer you ideas for colleges to explore further:

Best Colleges for Classroom Experience | The Princeton Review https://share.google/vjjDGEoX4SaNOwHN3

Most Loved Colleges | The Princeton Review https://share.google/DhKopsbVDNM1WU68z

Best Colleges for Science Lab Facilities | The Princeton Review https://share.google/8XvjDWmE94rdS2Avi
Anonymous
Post 06/28/2025 05:54     Subject: Name your favorite schools for…
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:A high stats science girl in terms of campus experience, academic rigor, research opportunities and graduates’ outcomes regardless of college brand name and rankings?


Serious students, smaller classes, high rigor, interdisciplinary emphasis, outstanding research opportunities and outcomes(top for phD, MD, career salary) yet also with active student bodies that area interested in many different areas of academics, with many arts and extracurriculars on campus:

Princeton
Stanford
Harvard
Penn
Columbia
Cornell
Yale
Duke
Hopkins
UChicago
Northwestern

If she cannot get in, aim for the next-best tier
Rice
Notre Dame
Emory (unless wants engineering)
Wake
BC
William and Mary




Would your list be similar for a humanities kid interested in consulting or similar career (PR/crisis comms @ Edelman etc)?
Anonymous
Post 06/27/2025 22:11     Subject: Name your favorite schools for…
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Amherst, Williams, Swarthmore, Carleton, Pomona, Haverford, Hamilton, Wesleyan, Bowdoin, Davidson, Harvey Mudd, Smith

If you’re seriously interested in a stem phd, cut this list to Swat, Pomona, Carleton, and Mudd

NP. Almost all of those have sent students to top STEM PhD programs this year and will provide good preparation and research opportunities.
Anonymous
Post 06/27/2025 21:56     Subject: Name your favorite schools for…
Anonymous wrote:Any of T5. Rice John’s HopkinsPenn Northwestern Chicago.


+1
Anonymous
Post 06/27/2025 20:26     Subject: Name your favorite schools for…
Anonymous wrote:Amherst, Williams, Swarthmore, Carleton, Pomona, Haverford, Hamilton, Wesleyan, Bowdoin, Davidson, Harvey Mudd, Smith

If you’re seriously interested in a stem phd, cut this list to Swat, Pomona, Carleton, and Mudd