Liberal Arts Safeties

tk21769
Sat, 03 Dec 2011 12:02:20 +0000

While I agree that there are alot of midwestern schools that fit your criteria, IMO you don’t sound like a candidate for merit aid at Grinnell or Macalester.



I agree, but turntabler appears to be eligible for need-based aid. The big hurdle with Grinnell or Macalester (Bard, Colby, etc.) will be getting in. If that happens, I’d expect them to offer more generous need-based aid than less selective schools (SLC, Bennington, etc.)

Eugene Lang? I get the impression it is not terribly well run. It’s a new college, surrounded by some of the most expensive real estate in the world; it is not well resourced in terms of library, dorms, athletic and other facilities. Some if not all first year students get shunted off to cramped, expensive apartment buildings around lower Manhattan. Then they tend to move off to Brooklyn or other less-expensive (for NYC) areas. This does not make for the kind of community you’d usually expect from a LAC. On the plus side, it does seem to have some good faculty … and of course, all the advantages of Greenwich Village.