Well respected colleges on the east coast...?

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<p>Personally I think that I am a good student. I have many leadership positions, 4.0, AP courses, most rigorous courses in a tough private school with 9 hour days…What colleges can you recommend that are</p>

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<li>On the east coast</li>
<li>Preppy/conservative (not too important)</li>
<li>Great biology program</li>
<li>Private</li>
<li>Intellectual student body</li>
<li>A campus school rather than a city preferably</li>
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<p>Thanks guys!!</p>

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<p>Harvard is fairly well respected.</p>

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<p>East Coast + Private + Intellectual + Urban=</p>

<p>Harvard
Penn
Columbia
Georgetown (not positive about their biology program)</p>

<p>With respect to item #2, there arent many conservative colleges out there that meet your other criteria.</p>

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<p>Let’s look at my school:</p>

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<li>Check, it’s in Massachusetts.</li>
<li>BC is pretty preppy enough. Plenty of people here wear J. Crew. Check.</li>
<li>Biology is a very popular course of study here. I hear the department is excellent.</li>
<li>Double check on this one. </li>
<li>Unsure, but everyone I know here did very well in high school.</li>
<li>Yes! We do have an actual campus, unlike our crosstown rivals down at BU…</li>
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<p>Boston College most certainly fits the bill. It is your typical private, preppy university situated in country’s northeast.</p>

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<p>There’s also a Boston University which I heard is in the same city.</p>

<p>One other school you might want to consider is Hampden-Sydney College. It’s an all-male school in eastern Virginia but it has close ties with women’s colleges like Sweet Briar nearby. You can read about their biology department [URL=<a href=“http://www.hsc.edu/academics/biology/]at”>Biology]at</a> this link<a href=“be%20warned,%20it’s%20kind%20of%20long-ish%20and%20technical”>/url</a>. Don’t go too much by the picture on that page; those three guys look kind of tool-ish but that’s just because the picture is a little washed out. </p>

<p>The college is staunchly conservative / traditional and it definitely has that preppy vibe since many of the students come from “old money”. The campus is considered stand-alone since it has activities on campus rather than relying on a surrounding city for fun.</p>

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<p>MIT also seems to fulfill all your requirements except perhaps #2.</p>

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<p>it’s called the ivy league</p>

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<p>Duke isn’t really all that conservative, but otherwise it fits the criteria as well.</p>

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<p>Well I think I will apply to some ivy leagues but im not sure i have that much of a chance at one. What are some prestigious non-ivy leagues?</p>

<p>btw im a girl =]</p>

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<p>William & Mary fits all except its public (in cost only) and not conservative (the better schools arent). Davidson, Wake Forest, Washington & Lee also fit the bill in the South.</p>

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<p>Second Davidson and Wake Forest.</p>

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<p>Colgate, Hamilton, Union, Bucknell, Holy Cross, Lehigh, Lafayette</p>

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<p>Columbia, Emory (south), there are some pretty good hidden gems in ny too i hear</p>

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<p>Duke, Dartmouth, Holy Cross, Davidson.</p>

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<p>What a surprise!</p>

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<p>more conservative schools that fit your criteria: Boston College, Villanova, Colgate, Bucknell</p>

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<p>They’re on the East Coast - they’re automatically prestigious! As long as you stick to the coasts, you’re just fine.</p>

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<p>“6. A campus school rather than a city preferably”</p>

<p>“There’s also a Boston University which I heard is in the same city.”</p>

<p>Boston U. is about as urban as you can get. If you didn’t see any signs reading “Boston University,” you’d think it was just another urban area.</p>

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<p>AK81493: Check out most of the LAC’s listed in “CC Top Liberal Arts Colleges”. Also, since you are a girl, check out the women’s LAC’s (listed in CCTLAC). Biology is very popular now, so most colleges have good programs.</p>

<p>Sounds like you are a HS junior. Lots of fun research ahead for you. Enjoy studying the menu. Buy one of the books that reviews colleges. There are a few. Princeton has a “North Eastern Colleges” book. There’s an “Insider’s Guide to colleges”, and then there’s that Green big book by Fiske. They are all good, and say similar things. The College Board Book only gives stats, which you can get from the college’s web site. Not worth the money, IMHO.</p>