Ok, since you just want lists of schools:
- These colleges are the ones that University of Richmond considers its peer institutions.
- This thread from a couple of years ago was for someone looking for schools similar to University of Richmond
- Princeton Review’s list of colleges with the happiest students
For those who don’t want to click on the various links
- From the CC list, these were the names I saw (bolded ones more frequently): Bucknell, Colgate, College of the Holy Cross, Wake Forest, Hobart, Lehigh, Elon, Colby, William & Mary, Gettysburg, Fordham, Southern Methodist, Texas Christian, Villanova, Santa Clara, Georgetown, Boston College, Lehigh, Emory, Elon, American, Ithaca, Loyola U. MD, Providence
- For the ones that Richmond considers its top 10 admissions competitors: UVA, William & Mary, UNC, Wake Forest, Michigan, Northeastern, Boston College, Emory, USC, Villanova.
- The universities that Richmond considers its information task force peer list (“a list of 30 or so institutions that are comparable in terms of size, scope, and resources” are:
Information Task Force Peer List
- Babson College
- Barnard College
- Bentley University
- Brandeis University
- Bucknell University
- Clark University
- Colgate University
- College of the Holy Cross
- College of William & Mary
- Colorado College
- Davidson College
- Denison University
- Dickinson College
- Elon University
- Franklin & Marshall College
- Furman University
- Illinois Wesleyan University
- Lafayette College
- Lehigh University
- Lewis & Clark College
- Middlebury College
- Oberlin College
- Pepperdine University
- Rice University
- Skidmore College
- Smith College
- St. Olaf College
- Trinity College (CT)
- Trinity University (TX)
- Washington & Lee University
- Wesleyan University
Colleges on Princeton Review’s happiest list that were mentioned further upthread or on one of these lists include Rice, Tulane, and William & Mary.