Anonymous
Post 02/24/2026 16:44     Subject: Colorado College?
The Your College Bound Kid podcast has an interview about it
https://yourcollegeboundkid.com/2022/08/11/interview-99-karen-kristof-on-understanding-colorado-college/
Anonymous
Post 02/24/2026 15:28     Subject: Colorado College?
Anonymous wrote:Colorado College might be partly understood through its self-identified peer institutions:

Bates
Bowdoin
Carleton
Colby
Colgate
Holy Cross
Davidson
Hamilton
Kenyon
Lafayette
Macalester
Middlebury
Pitzer
Wesleyan
Whitman


Actually I think it's hard to find comparable schools because it's pretty unique. But that said, my kid is going to one of the schools on this list after considering CC, and applied to others.
Anonymous
Post 02/24/2026 15:26     Subject: Re:Colorado College?
Anonymous wrote:OP here. Thanks all. Its reading like people like CC but it isn't many people's first choice. That's sort of where my kid is right now. Would love reasons to love it if some of the RD reaches don't come through.


It was my kid's friend's first choice, but alas, he did not get in.