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Originally Posted by highopes Kids in the Midwest who want great colleges have to go to either side of the country to find them (with a couple exceptions). . . Plus, we have to live in the Midwest. |
Wait a minute, you can't have it both ways. If you don't want to live in the Midwest, then there's nothing wrong with "go[ing] to either side of the country," is there? That's just what you want.
If you WANT to live in the Midwest, then you don't get to complain about "having to" live there. And there are plenty of good schools in the Midwest, not just a "couple of exceptions."
National universities:
U Chicago (#9 US News)
WUSTL (#12)
Northwestern (#14)
Notre Dame (#19)
Michigan (#25)
That's 20% of the top 25 right there, more than the West Coast (Stanford #4, Caltech #5, UC Berkeley #21, UCLA #25), same number as the South (Duke #8, Rice #17, Emory #17, Vanderbilt #19, UVA #23).
Plus some of the other Midwestern public flagships, especially Wisconsin-Madison and UIUC, are very strong.
As for LACs;
Carleton #5
Grinnell #11
Oberlin #20
Macalester #26
Kenyon #32
plus another 20 or so in the 50-100 range.