<p>I’m mainly going for the top schools because of their extremely generous aid. I have already saved up enough to pay for 4 years at these schools from the aid estimator, so it’s a non-issue.</p>
<p>Oberlin is particularly liberal. </p>
<p>Amherst and Williams are both liberal leaning, but not more so than most of the other liberal east coast schools you are applying to. Neither are particularly artsy, either. Many liberal arts colleges (like Washington and Lee, for example) are quite conservative.</p>
<p>Are they even top 50 though?</p>
<p>If I put down a sport as the activities most likely to pursue in college, will that be taken into consideration?</p>
<p>Amherst and Williams? They’re two of the best schools in the country - right up beside Dartmouth and Penn.</p>