Liberal Arts College Search

Midwestmomofboys
Wed, 23 Nov 2016 00:48:04 +0000

Bates and Carleton are not matches, unless someone accepts the defintiion “match” as 50/50 shot, so as much as chance of rejection as acceptance. For a well-qualified applicant, the challenge is the list divides into schools which are functionally reaches, because the holistic admissions makes decisions too unpredictable, and safeties, schools where stats make it almost certain a student will be admitted. So, Oberlin, Grinnell, Bates, Kenyon, Mac etc. are all reaches, in my mind. Beloit, Lawrence, Kalamazoo are safeties. You could have schools in between, such as Dickinson and Denison, which I’d call matches.

Schools with non-residential Greek life include Hamilton, Kenyon, Denison and, I think though someone else could confirm, Dickinson. Schools with non-traditional greek life include Knox, Beloit, Wooster. Schools without greek life include Kalamazoo, Earlham, Connecticut, Bates, Grinnell, Oberlin.