PAGRok

Just for fun, I am just curious if anyone has any ideas which universities are similar to which LAC's based on student body and any other criteria. Do you agree with these, or have any other suggestions?

Harvard - Amherst/Wellesley
Yale - Swarthmore/Vassar
Princeton - Pomona
Columbia - Barnard
UPenn - CMC
Brown - Vassar/Wesleyan/Bard
Dartmouth - Williams/Bowdoin
UChicago - Reed
Duke - Davidson
MIT - Harvey Mudd
Caltech - Olin

isaiahstock

Interesting idea! I really have no direct experience, but they seem like good match ups. Where would Carleton match up?

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PAGRok

Oh gosh, the Carleton (Macalester/Grinnell) feel is maybe similar to Northwestern? I really don't know Carleton enough to make any sort of informed decision.

whenhen

Georgetown should be paired with CMC.
UPenn should be with Babson
Vanderbildt - Furman (both relatively conservative, fratty schools with a decent sports scene)
Notre Dame - Holy Cross
Stanford - Pomona (for the liberal arts subjects)
Cornell - Lafayette
Cal Tech is basically a LAC with a graduate program, but its most similar counterpart would probably be Rose Hulman

whenhen

Oh and Berkeley is basically the result of someone saying, screw it, let's finally combine the 5Cs together and make the other 2Cs world class graduate institutions. You've got your radical hippies aplenty (Pitzer), sleep deprived STEM students (Harvey Mudd), world class poly sci and business programs (CMC), woman's rights activists (Scripps), and generally outstanding liberal arts majors (Pomona).

isaiahstock

I have toured and have friends that go to Northwestern, Mac, and Carleton, and I really do not think any of these are very similar.

Mac and NW would be the closest pair out of the three, I think.

Any other opinions on Carleton?

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happy1

Brown and Amherst both have no core curriculum.

beyphy

Williams seems awfully low. It's generally considered the Harvard of LACs is it not?

Not Harvey Mudd?

par72

Notre Dame- Holy Cross, Columbia-Wesleyan.

ECAdmStudent

I think people are trying to compare their characters rather than their rankings. This is a funny list though :P

PAGRok

Ya, the point was the characteristics of universities that matched with LAC's. Ya, I know it's funny, but you can't have funny without fun.

destinyhelp

I think Princeton and Pomona are polar opposites. Princeton is probably more like Davidson or Washington and Lee.

debakianmj

Stanford and Pomona. Similarly laid back, diverse student bodies. Academics emphasize that free-spirited nature. Both about 30 miles away from major cities and in a bubble of their own. Uniquely exceptional in their categories (Stanford tends to be matched evenly with HYP, and Pomona with WAS. But the argument for both to be the best in their class can definitely be made)

docfreedaddy

Debakianmj

Stanford is officially about 50% STEM and dedicated to entrepreneurism. Other than both being in California there are few similarities with Pomona. Pomona has a rich LAC heritage and is embedded within a cluster of complementing colleges. Pomona seems more similar to USC as a private California university which places much emphasis on a LAC experience --see Thematic Options, USC (Thematic Option > USC Dana and David Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences) within the richness of a varied university environment.

lmkh70

I think I would maybe match up Carleton and Princeton. I am only saying this because a lot of people who consider one, consider the other. A lot of people at Carleton would say that their final 2 choices were between those two.