Anonymous
Post 08/21/2025 18:30     Subject: Best mid-size target colleges for Northeast/Mid-Atlantic/South?
Anonymous wrote:
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".

Not PP but a lot of schools this size are Catholic. It’s just a fact.
Anonymous
Post 08/21/2025 18:16     Subject: Best mid-size target colleges for Northeast/Mid-Atlantic/South?
Anonymous wrote:
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.


What’s in between if they want midsized (6,000 - 10,000) and suburban?

NP. There’s not an in between. Those are good schools. Go to College Navigator and search for schools in that size range, with a 20%+ admit rate, in the northeast/mid-Atlantic/south, and with 25th percentile SAT scores over 640 per portion of the SAT, and you’ll see around six schools, with those on the list.
Anonymous
Post 08/21/2025 18:09     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.


What’s in between if they want midsized (6,000 - 10,000) and suburban?
Anonymous
Post 08/21/2025 18:00     Subject: Best mid-size target colleges for Northeast/Mid-Atlantic/South?
Villanova, Wake Forest, BC, Syracuse,
Anonymous
Post 08/21/2025 18:00     Subject: Best mid-size target colleges for Northeast/Mid-Atlantic/South?
College of Charleston, UVM, American, Villanova, Clemson, VA Tech (big school but small town) Delaware, Fairfield, Wake Forest
Anonymous
Post 08/21/2025 17:44     Subject: Best mid-size target colleges for Northeast/Mid-Atlantic/South?
College of Charleston
Anonymous
Post 08/21/2025 17:33     Subject: Best mid-size target colleges for Northeast/Mid-Atlantic/South?
University of Delaware
Anonymous
Post 08/21/2025 17:29     Subject: Best mid-size target colleges for Northeast/Mid-Atlantic/South?
Anonymous wrote:I don't know but I think our sons would be friends!


Tufts sounds like a great fit for this kid but it has a 10% admit rate.
Anonymous
Post 08/21/2025 17:14     Subject: Best mid-size target colleges for Northeast/Mid-Atlantic/South?
I don't know but I think our sons would be friends!
Anonymous
Post 08/21/2025 17:10     Subject: Best mid-size target colleges for Northeast/Mid-Atlantic/South?
Tufts? But pretty hard to get in
Anonymous
Post 08/21/2025 17:07     Subject: Best mid-size target colleges for Northeast/Mid-Atlantic/South?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
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.
JMU is your obvious likely.
JMU is everyone's likely.
Anonymous
Post 08/21/2025 16:53     Subject: Best mid-size target colleges for Northeast/Mid-Atlantic/South?
Anonymous wrote:Lehigh and BC are many levels below Duke or Northwestern.

OP asked for target schools. An 8% admit rate school is not a target school for anyone. I don’t get why people keep missing this.
Anonymous
Post 08/21/2025 16:46     Subject: Best mid-size target colleges for Northeast/Mid-Atlantic/South?
Lehigh and BC are many levels below Duke or Northwestern.
Anonymous
Post 08/21/2025 10:45     Subject: Re:Best mid-size target colleges for Northeast/Mid-Atlantic/South?
We recently toured Furman for a kid who sounds like yours, OP, and loved it.
Anonymous
Post 08/21/2025 10:44     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.
Add Dayton, San Diego, and DePaul.