Eastern US School Suggestions for DD

Theoden
Tue, 18 Feb 2020 16:03:32 +0000

Great advice here! National Liberal Arts Colleges in the 50-100 range on USNWR offer merit for stats like you daughter’s. Check out the net price calculator. You need to check on their website if they do or they don’t offer merit.

In PA alone: Gettysburg, Dickinson, Allegheny, Urisnus, Muhlenberg, Juniata, Susquehanna

If you look in NY: St. Lawrence, Bard, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Hartwick

If you are willing to go to the Midwest, you have many more options.

Ohio: College of Wooster, Ohio Wesleyan, Deninson

A good place to start is the book Colleges That Change Lives by Loren Pope There is a consortium of these schools: https://ctcl.org/. Lots of these schools offer merit. Rhodes and Deninson, which were previously mentioned, are in this consortium. Also see the Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colleges_That_Change_Lives

Looking at the more elite Liberal Arts colleges, some offer merit, some a need-based only. Your daughter might have a chance at some of them, though others might be a stretch. A good resource on these are the “Hidden Ivies”. These are mostly Liberal Arts Colleges in the 1-50 range on the National Liberal Arts Colleges rankings in USNWR, with some other well known schools. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hidden_Ivies

My son got excellent Merit Aid at Muhlenberg, Allegheny and Knox College.

Best of Luck!