Good list. Just one correction: Juniata is not near Philadelphia; it is about 3 1/2 hours away and not near any cities, large or small.
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I added Grinnell because it is a Questbridge partner and less than an hour to Des Moines. It fills all the other criteria of the OP
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Yeah, also Goucher is not in Baltimore; itâs in a (relatively lively) suburb, near Towson University.
McDaniel is in a conservative exurban (until recently pretty rural) town that has little in common with Baltimore.
I think Goucher could be a good fit, but I donât think McDaniel meets the criteria.
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I agree, Goucher could be a really good fit.
But for anyone not from Baltimore, it it 100% in Baltimore.
It is inside the beltway (barely), and a 17 minute drive according to Google from the inner harbor (on a Sunday afternoon). True, the technical suburb is Towson ⊠but itâs closer to the heart of Baltimore than Bryn Mawr/Haverford is to Philly, or all sorts of NYC schools to Manhattan.
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@Bobarlotte - hope you come back!! We have lots of questions - mainly about $$.
It would be helpful if OP came back to clarify priorities, but from the original post, it seems like the most important one was to be in or very very near a city. Schools like Bard, Davidson, Oxford campus of Emory, and Grinnell just donât meet that requirement. Maybe OP will update and say that criteria is more flexible than it sounded, but it didnât sound like that was negotiable from their post.
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Agree that clarification will help.
Wellesley for example- in a lovely, affluent suburb which does not fit anyoneâs idea of a city (nice stores walking distance of campus, leafy places to bike⊠but not a city). However, the college runs shuttles to Cambridge and Boston, there is public transportation, and most women there do not have cars-- they are just not necessary.
So is that âin/near a cityâ?
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Normally Iâd agree - but when you read this - and I assume their financial situation matches it - you become flexible at the expense of not finding a suitable home. Or perhaps you go to community college and live home - or TN State (an HBCU in Nashville) and live home.
So OP will likely have to trade off on something.
She also plans to apply to the Questbridge College Prep Scholars program when the application opens on February 1 (thatâs the Questbridge program for HS juniors that prepares you to apply to the actual Questbridge selective college matching program thatâs for HS seniors)
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Youâre absolutely right. I was having a brain fart. I meant to say Ursinus, not Juniata. I just corrected my post. Sorry!
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My daughter had a very similar set of requirements (except for the proximity to Nashville) and ended up at Bryn Mawr with a generous merit scholarship. She loves it. It strikes such a fantastic balance of having a beautiful traditional campus with a walkable town within reach, as well as being a 25 min train ride into Philly. The train station is an easy walk from campus and she has found Philadelphia to be such a fun city to visit. Admissions prioritizes academic rigor above gpa (per the common data set) which might bode well for your daughter.
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Surprised Clark hasnât been mentioned. It fits most of the criteria. Money might be the issue, but Iâm betting they would give this student most of the needed FA, whether through merit aid or FA.
Compromise is necessary.
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Hopefully, someone else can comment on this. I was told that the requirement for 3-4 years of foreign language is a prerequisite for any of the more selective colleges. Is there any chance of her taking a semester of the next level at a community college, either this summer or next fall?
If her high school only offers two years of FL, colleges wonât count that against her.
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If the high school only offers two years, the colleges will understand this. They might then require the student take FL in college, but YMMV on this as well.
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We looked at this in detail b/c my son has a language disorder. Most schools have moved to 2 years required, 3 to 4 years recommended. Some schools do require 3 years, I think I saw two schools i can think of that required 3 to 4 years in the same language- I think offhand it was Tufts in the school or Arts and Sciences, I believe Tufts Engineering School did not require more than 2 and MIT- so we didnât apply there. We did 2 years of one language and then one year of another just to cover our bases.
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Barnard. Boston college. BU. Penn. Wellesley. Swarthmore. Tufts. Hopkins. Columbia. Case western.
These are all quest schools. So if she gets into quest, and matches, full ride.
The ACT tutoring helps, but she needs to do a ton of practice tests on her own, too.
And Macalester, which was my first thought upon reading the original post; and clearly other commenters had the same thought.
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Except itâs a 14 hr drive, and way wicked cold. OTOH, itâs even farther to Boston. But it seems to me that itâs worth the drive, if she can get a full ride to a good LAC in a decent city, even if the drive is farther.
Hopefully OP reappears. âŠ.to answer the unanswered.
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