Thank you! We had only one requirement when our kids applied to college…either a 2 hour drive from our house, or within one hour of a relative or close friend. We have a large family, and a lot of good friends. This didn’t really limit them.
So I understand your limit!
Have you considered University of Mary Washington, The College of New Jersey? And Delaware as I suggested above. While some have larger enrollments, they don’t “feel” large.
And adding…your private school probably will have some suggestions…plus they will have a sense of how students from the school do in admissions at various colleges.
Thanks for mentioning Delaware! I have suggested it and she thought it would be too big, but I think we really should take a look. Have not considered the others, but will take a look.
So far they have said her list looks great and haven’t added anything to it. But we’ll have a family meeting with them in a couple of weeks to see what they think.
My daughter wanted smaller than UDel, but by the third time she visited, it became much smaller. It’s a beautiful walkable campus, has very happy students. My daughter was in the honors college and met a lot of very bright serious students (who liked to play as well). It’s 2 hours tonNYC, DC, 1 1/2 hours to Philadelphia, very easy to get to.
Glad to hear your daughter enjoyed UDel! Just booked a tour for May. Hope mine likes it too, it certainly looks promising!
Especially strong in international relations.
Our friends son goes to AU and loves it. The campus is beautiful, dc is awesome. The courses are challenging tho.
After our college process, I would recommend University Rochester, Mount Holyoke I went there for a year, though it doesn’t have the town near it it’s part of the consortium with such cute towns nearby and shuttle bus. I think smith, BRYN MAWR are going to be a real reach. If you have diversity I would check out Denison they seem to need it and accepted my DD, I think being from nyc helps.
The key is to make some of your volunteering and extra curriculars stand out that they are special in some way. That is what we did. With just her stats she wouldn’t have got in to many of these schools but she did art portfolios, acting etc, environmental research to show how unique she was.
I definitely recommend ED but still hard to chose. Mine got waitlisted to Bates and Barnard it’s wild to think that if she had Ed there she would have got in.
Checkout Muhlenberg we liked its programs but coming from nyc the kids just didn’t seem cool and interesting enough. DD did love BRYN MAWR tho but didn’t get in. I think you should work on the sats and go for the best school possible.
Good luck!
Another possibility that might work is:
The College of New Jersey: About 7100 undergrads, less than 4 miles from the NJ State Senate, and, in current traffic conditions, a 1h23m drive to NYC, and it looks like there’s a train from Trenton to NYC every hour (per Google Maps). You can read about its political science major as well as its international studies major, which offers specializations in African Studies, Asian Studies, Chinese Studies, Diplomacy, European Studies, Global Health Development, and Environment, International Economics and Trade, Latin American and Carribean Studies, and Middle Eastern Studies.