looking for some parental insight on my (ever dreaded) list

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<p>I agree with Duffman…
If you have Wash U on your list, you will love Tufts.<br>
You said Suburban…</p>

<p>Tufts fits 100% of your criteria (except maybe big sports). More about participation than watching…</p>

<p>Wash U - is urban</p>

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<p>UNC is a great university, great athletics and club level sports for athletes who don’t do ncaa, great scholarships for people like you, happy happy students, great weather, great town, you would get good merit from UNC, they have a huge endowment and use their trademark money for student scholarships. Check it out. Near Raleigh, Durham, Charlotte and Greensboro…if you go visit duke, check out chapel hill, nc.</p>

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<p>cool, not a bad list. Not a bad list at all. I still want to ding you a little about Vassar and Dartmouth on the same list (but I won’t ;)). Again that’s a good list if FSU is your FA safety, and you are comfortable about your efc, and how the individual schools calculate YOUR situation, and how they package their aid . :wink: </p>

<p>It’s exciting , isn’t it? My D and I used to talk about what it would be like to attend each of the schools on her list. I enjoyed it right along with her.</p>

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<p>BTW, I’d say WashU had a suburban vibe myself. The area, the proximity of the park, and Clayton itself well…it ain’t urban like Harvard is urban IMO. It’s more like Rice.</p>

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<p>lol. i’m a deff. left wing when it comes to politics.
i guess i just don’t consider it as important as freezing to death or academics (not right now anyway) because i just assume that after the Bush Administration the world will unite in democratic rally cries and toilet paper court houses and have a big pillow fight or something rediculous :]</p>

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<p>curmudgeon wrote: and Macalester and Carleton, although the last two have virtually no merit aid.</p>

<p>I think these MN liberal arts colleges only give merit aid for National Merit finalists and semi-finalists BUT they package the need-based aid quite well. </p>

<p>Don’t know if you are reconsidering the location issue, but in your first post you said you weren’t interested in rural schools, which could knock some off your list.</p>