Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:UMD
W&M
Georgetown
Villanova

Prefers smaller school, but majoring in Business

Georgetown or Villanova

Georgetown or UVA in-state

Anonymous wrote:Interest is acroegology and marine science but when not offered at a school on the list - environmental science and engineering:

-Caltech $$$
-Cal Berkeley $$$
-Duke $$
-Cornell $$
-UC Davis $$
-Cal Poly SLO $$
-UC San Diego $$
-Univ of Miami $$
-UMD $
-Auburn $
-NC State (Full ride - Park Scholar)

The Park would be hard to turn down. One of the most generous scholarships in existence. You can literally make money going to college. NC State engineering will land you a great job right out of school.

Anonymous wrote:Interest is acroegology and marine science but when not offered at a school on the list - environmental science and engineering:

-Caltech $$$
-Cal Berkeley $$$
-Duke $$
-Cornell $$
-UC Davis $$
-Cal Poly SLO $$
-UC San Diego $$
-Univ of Miami $$
-UMD $
-Auburn $
-NC State (Full ride - Park Scholar)

duke or Caltech. super different vibes, your kid will know. but one of those two. it would be duke for 90% of kids

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:UMD
W&M
Georgetown
Villanova

Prefers smaller school, but majoring in Business

Georgetown or Villanova

Georgetown. No one picks Villanova over Georgetown.

ND @ 60k
or
BC @ 88k

boy, humanities.

Ursinus, cost of attendance approx. $44K
Connecticut College, coa approx. $58K

Interest is acroegology and marine science but when not offered at a school on the list - environmental science and engineering:

-Caltech $$$
-Cal Berkeley $$$
-Duke $$
-Cornell $$
-UC Davis $$
-Cal Poly SLO $$
-UC San Diego $$
-Univ of Miami $$
-UMD $
-Auburn $
-NC State (Full ride - Park Scholar)

I guess, I'm not helping here by not "picking" which school but these are all great options.

Anonymous wrote:Dickinson or Denison? Denison would cost about 8k more per year. Denison is nice and is more selective, but is it worth it over Dickinson?

My DC got into both schools and ultimately chose Denison, but I think Dickinson is also a wonderful school and just recommended it to a rising junior. Does your DC have a preference? Did they do the admitted student days? One advantage of Dickinson is you can drive there and back in a day if you are in the DC metro area. It's an easy drive (or flight) to Denison but too long to go back and forth in one day. Fortunately, we like Granville and Columbus, so we don't mind the trips although the cost can add up. Both campuses are beautiful and have great academics. I don't think you can wrong with either. For my DC her choice probably came down to her gut feeling more than anything, but I know she was very impressed with President Weinberg's speech on admitted student day. Denison also has an endowment of over $1B and I think that can be felt around campus.

https://denison.edu/campus/president/speeches
https://www.dickinson.edu/homepage/1494/dickinson_college_president

Anonymous wrote:Denison or Kenyon? Merit aid of ~20K at both.

I may be wrong, but I think Denison and Kenyon have less in common than Denison and Dickinson even though they are both in Ohio. If your student has visited, they might already have a feeling about the fit. If you are from the DC area, I think the analogy of Kenyon being like W&M and Dension being like UVA are oversimplified but seems accurate as far as stereotypes. Here's a few threads on Kenyon vs. Denison:

https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/958783.page
https://www.reddit.com/r/Denison/comments/mg8zgz/if_you_could_choose_between_kenyon_and_denison/

Anonymous wrote:UMD
W&M
Georgetown
Villanova

Prefers smaller school, but majoring in Business

Georgetown or Villanova

Anonymous wrote:Okay, how about:

Whitman $$$
Kenyon $$$ (but slightly less)
St. Olaf $$

St Olaf (but I’m a Minnesotan and biased.) but also, Whitman and Kenyon are very small (1500-1800 students) whereas St Olaf has about 2x that. Having gone to a very small college myself, i would not choose that again…too cliquish, not enough options socially.

Anonymous wrote:Okay, how about:

Whitman $$$
Kenyon $$$ (but slightly less)
St. Olaf $$

St Olaf seems like the obvious choice to me. But you gave no other info, so not much to go on.

Okay, how about:

Whitman $$$
Kenyon $$$ (but slightly less)
St. Olaf $$

Anonymous wrote:Dickinson or Denison? Denison would cost about 8k more per year. Denison is nice and is more selective, but is it worth it over Dickinson?

Not a huge difference, but I’d still do Dickinson. I really do think of them as comparables

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
Major: PreMed (Public Health/Data Science), wants to be a doctor.

Vanderbilt
UVA (In-State)
Northwestern
UCLA
UCB
VTech (Eng) (In-State)
VCU (PreMed, President's Scholarship/FREE degree)
UMass-A
PSU

I would go VCU given the scholarship.

+1

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DC has following options. Major CS

UVA - first year Wise and then transfer to main campus (in-state)
U Mich - Major CS not confirmed yet, If not Data Science
UMD - CS ($5k/y merit scholarship)
GMU -

(MIT, CMU waitlisted)

Michigan

U Mich is slightly better than UMD for CS