Anonymous
03/09/2025 08:41
Subject: what's a bigger Davidson
Anonymous wrote:For 2024 football Season Holy cross Had 5 home games With attrndance over 10,000. William and Mary Had only 1 home Game With attrndsnce barely over 10,000. Not even close and HC has smaller enrollment
But we're talking about students not overall attendance
Anonymous
03/09/2025 00:31
Subject: what's a bigger Davidson
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Richmond and W&L are too small and draw more regionally than Davidson does.
Duke, WashU, Northwestern, ND, Rice.
All this schools are significantly harder admits than Davidson. And yes, I know the boosters will quote the acceptance rate but the average admitted student stats will be lower.
Spoken by someone with no clue.
Anonymous
03/08/2025 23:49
Subject: what's a bigger Davidson
For 2024 football Season Holy cross Had 5 home games With attrndance over 10,000. William and Mary Had only 1 home Game With attrndsnce barely over 10,000. Not even close and HC has smaller enrollment
Anonymous
03/08/2025 23:37
Subject: what's a bigger Davidson
At W&M and wake you'll actually get people going to football and basketball games. Wouldn't say the same about a lot of the others that have been suggested
Anonymous
03/08/2025 23:20
Subject: what's a bigger Davidson
Holy Cross and Colgate. Tufts is on no Way similar to Davidson
Anonymous
03/04/2025 15:45
Subject: what's a bigger Davidson
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:looking for a school with 4k students min. 10-15k would be fine.
liked the vibe and academic offerings at Davidson the most, but now it's Junior year and I feel like we're getting short on time to see things.
high stats student. reaches will be t10 schools. merit would be great .
Rice, William and Mary, Tufts, Rochester, Wake
Lehigh?
Anonymous
03/04/2025 15:43
Subject: what's a bigger Davidson
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:It is nearly impossible to find the same as Davidson but in a bigger size. You need to prioritize which factors make Davidson most appealing and look for as many of those factors in another university.
OP okay but this is what I’m literally asking.
Something like Davidson’s academic offerings (esp policy and Econ), kids vibe that is left leaning without being quirky, sports culture without having 35% of the kids playing a sport (so more - “let’s go to the big game this weeekend”), serious academics without a grinder culture, happy kids.
Things that he was neutral about: location, southern-ish, architecture, town.
Deal breaker: size. Too small.
Tufts. I don’t know why it has a reputation for “quirky”. The kids are like any other nescac school. There’s a real mix of kids, all focused on academics.
My understanding is that Tufts does not the sports culture that OP’s kid found at Davidson and wants to find in a bigger school:
“sports culture without having 35% of the kids playing a sport (so more - “let’s go to the big game this weeekend”)”
How many kids at Tufts actually go watch the school teams play football, basketball, soccer, baseball, lacrosse etc. for fun?
Anonymous
03/04/2025 14:34
Subject: what's a bigger Davidson
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:It is nearly impossible to find the same as Davidson but in a bigger size. You need to prioritize which factors make Davidson most appealing and look for as many of those factors in another university.
OP okay but this is what I’m literally asking.
Something like Davidson’s academic offerings (esp policy and Econ), kids vibe that is left leaning without being quirky, sports culture without having 35% of the kids playing a sport (so more - “let’s go to the big game this weeekend”), serious academics without a grinder culture, happy kids.
Things that he was neutral about: location, southern-ish, architecture, town.
Deal breaker: size. Too small.
ED Vanderbilt and cross your fingers
With Econ and policy as a primary academic interests and your other criteria, ED Vanderbilt, Tulane EA as a backup. If you can get into Davidson, you should qualify for merit from Tulane.
Anonymous
03/04/2025 14:25
Subject: what's a bigger Davidson
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Something like Davidson’s academic offerings (esp policy and Econ)Anonymous wrote:It is nearly impossible to find the same as Davidson but in a bigger size. You need to prioritize which factors make Davidson most appealing and look for as many of those factors in another university.
As a point of comparison, Davidson placed 39th among its peers when considered by faculty publishing in economics:
https://ideas.repec.org/top/top.uslacecon.html
If the size limits were loosened, I'd recommend Colgate.
Disagree. The campus cultures are quite different.