Help my junior make a list: small class size, good STEM (CS/math/bio) and research opportunities, blue states, <$40K with need-based aid

Just wanted to chime in to say that if you/she are interested in WPI, let me know. My older child is a senior there right now and we’ve been overall very happy with it - I’d be happy to discuss more (but don’t want to take over your thread if you aren’t interested). I’ll say that I think it’s a very LGBTQ friendly campus. For example, my son is in a fraternity - which stereotypes would tell you might be the biggest bro-culture and not LGBTQ welcoming place. But they have had more than one trans brother, they have a national philanthropy but have decided that The Trevor Project is more important to them so they’ve adopted it as a chapter philanthropy and they do a lot of fundraising and work for them, and they are just a generally good group of guys. And there are places/groups all over campus that are similar. (Plus Massachusetts is just a generally very LGBTQ friendly place to be. It’s a lot of flights for someone coming from AK, but at least Boston is a big hub, and it’s not hard to get to campus from Boston.)

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