Whew! I went ahead with the assumption of moving past the metro area. Looking forward to following along with your son’s search for a college!
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Of the list that @AustenNut put together, we know students at (or recently graduated from) Goucher, Catholic and Mary Washington - all have been really happy with their school/program. Some of the schools on this list are more urban, a few are closer to exurbs/suburbs, and a few are truly rural. Do you think he’d have a preference? And if you are living out of the country, is (relatively) easy access to an airport important?
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Thanks so much. Building the list with y’all’s help and I am grateful. Looking forward to doing some visits this summer so we know his preference, my hunch is not urban. We toured some urban schools last year with his big sis and he didn’t seem sold. Who knows that might change. Airport access not an issue for us, we always look for an excuse for a road trip when we are home.
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If it meets his needs in other ways, I’ll say that Mary Washington has been such a nice fit for a number of kids we know who are “normal smart” and who are athletically inclined. It’s a nice pretty little campus that feels “college-y”, the kids are friendly and collaborative, and there’s good club and rec sports if he wants to keep up the soccer. It just seems like an all around good place to spend four years.
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Do you know if it has a really liberal vibe? We just visited UNC Asheville and the kids were very quirky. Just wasn’t the right vibe for my sporty son. Someone sAid Mary Washington is similar but don’t know if that’s’ true.
It’s by one is interested 8 just posted reviews of Eastern Tenn State, UNC Asheville, and Western Carolina in the “Colleges that moved up” thread. They are all great schools for this group of kids.
I think Mary Wash is a little more preppy / sporty. Not like polos and khakis or anything, not that kind of preppy, but more like the lacrosse and field hockey kids are probably comfortable there, along with some of the more artsy ones.
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Although this thread quietened down with most of the discussion just in the main 2026 parent thread, I thought I might update for future readers searching (I found the older versions of these threads helpful). C26 has a GPA of just under 3.4 at time of applying rolling/early action this year, overall application does span an upward trend in grades (with counselor letter mentioning late ADHD diagnosis), 1500 SAT, average ECs.
So far applied and accepted to two rolling schools for architecture: ASU (with Provost scholarship $15.5k per year) and Pitt.
Will update EA schools when applicable, Dec-Jan dates. I think they would be classified as one reach and 3 targets/likelies but it’s hard to know with architecture.
One note: UMN is EA with decision date end Jan, but does admit some students rolling -for C26 however the portal updated that they want to see first semester grades with a note that they will still be decided in EA round. (UMN will probably fall off the list now anyway given other admits as they have secondary competitive admission to major.)
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