<p>I think everyone applying to school should visit/apply to at least one of the following schools</p>
<p>it is a wide net....</p>
<p>yale
rice
vanderbilt
butler
muhlenberg
drake
brandeis
hendrix
dennison
pittsburgh
haverford</p>
<p>any others??</p>
<p>Why those schools?</p>
<p>you may wind up going to a local/ state school but, before you just take that route, you should expand the web you cast. these are a good cross section of private schools that I think people should look at (IMO)</p>
<p>add Lafayette</p>
<p>Maybe add a couple of Catholic schools?</p>
<p>It would be helpful to know more about why you chose the institutions on this list…but I agree that they represent a good range of private colleges.</p>
<p>sally 305
how’s u of Scranton…?
If I explained my choices on the others it would be 50 pages.</p>
<p>carnegie mellon</p>
<p>centre college
rhodes college</p>
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<p>There are plenty of students for which none of these schools is a good fit.</p>
<p>you should run the net price calculator to see which school is in the price range and that correlate to your stats first. A wild goose chase is a waste of money. </p>
<p>I think it is ridiculous to make a list like this. It makes sense for a students to visit a variety of sizes and types of schools to see what they like best, but there is no reason this list is better than any other list. How does this list make any sense for a kid who lives in California, and has the UCs as an option and wants to stay on the west coast? Or a kid in the Pacific Northwest who also wants to stay on the west coast? Or a kid who does not have the grades or stats for a higher ranked college? Or a kid who would be happiest at a STEM school? And why this list vs. another 200 colleges that could go on the list? It is a silly idea, pompous to think that there is one list of a dozen schools that “everyone” should try to visit one of.</p>
<p>first off this is IMO …and BTW it has a spread from CT to TX and from OH to TN. and very different levels of difficulty of getting accepted. and STEM’s schools are very nicely represented. </p>