small, quirky schools?

quietdesperation
Fri, 04 Jul 2014 17:41:52 +0000

thanks for all the ideas! to answer some questions:


the student is a boy
we have read colleges that change lives and have visited/considered a lot of those schools including many of the schools mentioned here.
He likes business, but prefers quirky. Mostly we want to get him to a happy place that has lots of support for kids and focuses on teaching.
We know syracuse and vermont don’t really fit but he liked the vibe of those schools. In the end, he probably won’t choose those schools.
He took AP classes in his strengths and did very well in those classes. He took one last year, two this year and will take another two next year.
Having been through this with our first son, we don’t believe he has a chance at davidson or carleton, grinell and oberlin would be far reaches. We’re also thinking about kenyon as a reach. We’re aware of knox from ctcl book, we’ll take a closer look. his brother, with a much stronger gpa, received merit at oberlin (decided not to attend) so we’re a little concerned about the “My brother got a scholarship, I didn’t get in” blues.