Match Me - LAC with Japanese, French majors and no or little Greek (SAT 1420)

S25 is looking for an LAC with strong foreign language programs in French and Japanese, as well as (hopefully) international business major option. Also hoping for study abroad options in Japan and Morocco (language immersion, not attending courses in English).

Ideally no greek life or minimal greek life.

Also, huge points if the music program allows non music majors to take courses and have private instruction/lessons (classical guitar).

SAT 1420 & scored 5 in all AP courses taken to date.

Northeast, South or near Midwest.

Thank you so much for helping solve this puzzle!

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Maybe Earlham College in Indiana?

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Middlebury would be the one that comes to mind. Did you share her GPA?

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If your student is interested in an LAC-like experience in an urban setting, you might consider Fordham (LIncoln Center campus.) Terrific international business, plus Japanese, French, opportunities for classical guitar. No Greek life.

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I think you need to find Japanese as most will have French.

Most LACs will not have business but if that’s what you want, look at schools like Bucknell, Dickinson, F&M, Kalamazoo, Richmond, Wake Forest, Wash & Lee, and for a public LAC College of Charleston.

By the way all those above have business in some form with Charleston, Richmond and Dickinson having international.

Check for frequency of offerings (all have both languages), especially Japanese - and ability to double or triple major.

Study abroad should be a secondary concern bcuz at most colleges, if they don’t have the program you need, another school will. Mine did one in Korea from U of Nebraska this year but goes to Charleston.

As an outlier - not a LAC - URI might be the best fit of all - their INTL Bus program.

This list runs the gamut selectivity wise. And in some ways cost wise.

Good luck.

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GPA? Class rank?

Excellent lead!

I did not. His GPA is 3.4. Thank you!

Whoops–I meant 4.4.

4.4 GPA and 16 out of 304

Fabulous feedback–thank you. We visited Dickinson and he LOVED it. I was also super impressed. I will have him check out College of Charleston and URI. Those were not on my radar. Wake Forest is just down the road from us and the very Greek-heavy social scene is not his deal at all.

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What is the unweighted gpa ? What is the highest level of math the student will have ?

For the study of languages specifically, this site may offer you ideas for colleges to research further:

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Echoing that Middlebury could be a good option.

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+3 on Middlebury but it’s worth noting that they fill a very large portion of the class through ED. RD acceptance is quite difficult, so ED2 is something to consider.

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Unweighted GPA is 4

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Some may be too Greek. W&L.

If you look at Charleston check out the Intl Scholars in the Honors College.

Two more to look at - Furman and W&M.

When I first was looking at LACs for business and Japanese, Dickinson was the first I thought of given their Intl Business focus.

As a really crazy idea given cross registration with Wellesley and Brandeis - look at Babson too. Or Brandeis itself would work.

I really think I’d ensure the frequency of classes no matter where you look, especially Japanese which likely will have few in the major.

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Yes–I think Middlebury might be a reach. But looks amazing.

Highest math ?

Highest math is AP precalculus (5).