Anonymous
08/21/2025 10:41
Subject: Best mid-size target colleges for Northeast/Mid-Atlantic/South?
JMU is your obvious likely.Anonymous wrote:Our flagship is UVA. According to the scattergrams, DC is not getting into UVA unless they ED. This is why.Anonymous wrote:Why pay 90-95k to go to Lehigh, URochester and BC. Save money and go to a flagship state school. Those schools are multiple layers below Duke and Northwestern.
Anonymous
08/21/2025 08:26
Subject: Re:Best mid-size target colleges for Northeast/Mid-Atlantic/South?
My DD applied to and was accepted by Syracuse (Maxwell School) and Fordham -- she was looking for mid-size in a city, rather than a "lively town". Good merit from Fordham. Their locations might not work for you given parameters but worth a look.
Anonymous
08/21/2025 08:14
Subject: Best mid-size target colleges for Northeast/Mid-Atlantic/South?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Pitt, Tulane, and UVM are good suggestions so far.
The big question for anyone looking for midsize and urban-ish is, How do you feel about Catholic universities?
Agree with this - we had similar criteria and most of the catholic universities fit the bill:
Marquette, SLU, LMU, Duquesne
FWIW we are not catholic and felt DC would feel comfortable at any. LMU in particular was one of the most liberal schools we visited over all.
Are you on multiple threads advertising the merits of catholic schools? Every time they "fit the bill".
Anonymous
08/21/2025 08:04
Subject: Best mid-size target colleges for Northeast/Mid-Atlantic/South?
Anonymous wrote:Pitt, Tulane, and UVM are good suggestions so far.
The big question for anyone looking for midsize and urban-ish is, How do you feel about Catholic universities?
Agree with this - we had similar criteria and most of the catholic universities fit the bill:
Marquette, SLU, LMU, Duquesne
FWIW we are not catholic and felt DC would feel comfortable at any. LMU in particular was one of the most liberal schools we visited over all.
Anonymous
08/21/2025 07:47
Subject: Best mid-size target colleges for Northeast/Mid-Atlantic/South?
Anonymous wrote:Why pay 90-95k to go to Lehigh, URochester and BC. Save money and go to a flagship state school. Those schools are multiple layers below Duke and Northwestern.
Our flagship is UVA. According to the scattergrams, DC is not getting into UVA unless they ED. This is why.
Anonymous
08/21/2025 01:31
Subject: Best mid-size target colleges for Northeast/Mid-Atlantic/South?
Anonymous wrote:Why pay 90-95k to go to Lehigh, URochester and BC. Save money and go to a flagship state school. Those schools are multiple layers below Duke and Northwestern.
Utter nonsense, none of those schools is "multiple layers" below any school.
Anonymous
08/21/2025 01:30
Subject: Best mid-size target colleges for Northeast/Mid-Atlantic/South?
Anonymous wrote:None of those worth the money. SEC schools or Penn State, and Pitt better options.
First: all of your alternate suggestions are large of very large, not mid-size
Second: Most of those schools are better than any or the alternatives that you suggested.
Anonymous
08/21/2025 01:10
Subject: Best mid-size target colleges for Northeast/Mid-Atlantic/South?
Anonymous wrote:William and Mary hits a lot of your wants, but need stats and budget to give better recommendations.
I really liked W&M, but I feel like Williamsburg falls short on this: " Likes a lively town or city nearby."
Anonymous
08/21/2025 00:25
Subject: Best mid-size target colleges for Northeast/Mid-Atlantic/South?
Why pay 90-95k to go to Lehigh, URochester and BC. Save money and go to a flagship state school. Those schools are multiple layers below Duke and Northwestern.
Anonymous
08/20/2025 23:52
Subject: Best mid-size target colleges for Northeast/Mid-Atlantic/South?
If that kid is extremely high stats (3.9+ / 1500+) and reaching for midsized schools like Duke/Northwestern/Vandy/Brown/Cornell etc., maybe good targets would be Wake, Lehigh, Richmond, University of Rochester, and Boston College?
Or are those three not really targets for anyone, including very high stats kids, given their admission rates? (I don’t know much about them other than they seem to fit the size/location OP requested.)
Or are those three not really targets for anyone, including very high stats kids, given their admission rates? (I don’t know much about them other than they seem to fit the size/location OP requested.)
Anonymous
08/20/2025 21:26
Subject: Best mid-size target colleges for Northeast/Mid-Atlantic/South?
Emory
Anonymous
08/20/2025 18:04
Subject: Best mid-size target colleges for Northeast/Mid-Atlantic/South?
Pitt is lovely but I don’t consider it mid-size with 25,000 undergrads. I’m also sensing the kid may not want urban as the description given was “lively town” or nearby city. OP, you gotta give us more details, including basics on your student’s profile.
Anonymous
08/20/2025 17:09
Subject: Best mid-size target colleges for Northeast/Mid-Atlantic/South?
Pitt, Tulane, and UVM are good suggestions so far.
The big question for anyone looking for midsize and urban-ish is, How do you feel about Catholic universities?
The big question for anyone looking for midsize and urban-ish is, How do you feel about Catholic universities?
Anonymous
08/20/2025 16:57
Subject: Best mid-size target colleges for Northeast/Mid-Atlantic/South?
Fairfield
Anonymous
08/20/2025 16:56
Subject: Best mid-size target colleges for Northeast/Mid-Atlantic/South?
UVM?