Big city or something more rural? Does it matter?

tkoparent
Wed, 01 May 2019 08:05:58 +0000

@SoapScholar My son took the approach you’re describing, which I think is a good one. He decided on Denison, which is in a lovely small town about a half hour outside Columbus, Ohio, the state capital. Bates and Bowdoin are also in this category, less than an hour from Portland, Maine (and Bates is actually located in the smaller city of Lewiston), as is Davidson, less than an hour from from Charlotte, North Carolina. Even schools like Trinity University in San Antonio and Occidental in Los Angeles are not really in the middle of their cities and have a more suburban feel. There are lots of others as well, at least in the LAC category. (My son didn’t look at any larger schools, so I’m less familiar with the situation there.) We didn’t look at schools that are really in the middle of nowhere.