<p>I like the idea of going to a liberal arts school, but I don't really want to go somewhere with less than 2,000 students. Wesleyan, for example, is a bit bigger than many LACs with about 2,700 students. Can anyone recommend some other schools of similar size (and caliber) as Wesleyan?</p>
<p>Oberlin College</p>
<p>Colgate (~2,800) and Middlebury (~2,400) are two other comparable schools. Bucknell (~3,400) and Holy Cross (~2,800) aren't considered quite as strong but are two more good, larger LACs.</p>
<p>Another is Vassar (about 2400).</p>
<p>At Pomona you get access to the other Claremont Colleges, so it would feel bigger. Amherst is part of that consortium that gives it a bigger feel. Smith has over 3000 students. Might also look at smallish universities like Rice, Wake Forest, Tufts, Dartmouth, Brandeis, and Clark U., and William and Mary.</p>
<p>Stonehill College, located in Massachusetts, has about 2500 students. Not with the same rep as Wesleyan or Oberlin, but it's been ranked the #1 Comprehensive College in the Northeast by USNWR for six years running.</p>
<p>St. Olaf -- 3000</p>
<p>Not rated as high but well-regarded -- especially in science and music.</p>
<p>Vassar, and Brown tends to feel like a LAC.</p>
<p>Holy Cross, Colgate and Bucknell all have student populations over 2500. Holy Cross has better location -1 hour from Boston while the other 2 are in remote locations.</p>
<p>Denison ~2400</p>
<p>But, you could get much better info on this question if you ran a search on the collegeboard.com web site rather than gathering really random answers on here.</p>
<p>Tufts is the smallest Research I university. Only about 20 years ago it was the largest LAC!</p>
<p>Isn't Lafayette about 4,000? Davidson is in this size ballpark too.</p>
<p>Agree that small universities often have the LAC feel. Brown felt very intimate and there were about 5500 kids there at the time.</p>
<p>According to PR, Lafeyette's enrollment is 2,310 and Davidson is 1,683.</p>
<p>Lehigh is technically a research, but its about 4,000</p>
<p>University of Rochester is in the 4000 range as is Rice.</p>
<p>I second any of the Claremont Colleges (Pomona especially)</p>
<p>William & Mary/Rice/Dartmouth/Brown/Wake Forest all have a LAC "feel". Pomona and Claremont Mckenna should be considered b/c the Consortium is almost seamless.</p>
<p>skidmore is about 2800</p>
<p>Pomona and the other Claremont Colleges (Claremont McKenna, Pitzer, Harvey Mudd, Scripps) total about 6,000 students, all on a geographic "footprint" about the same size as Dartmouth or Brown. Cross-registered classes, combined social events, even a single dining card across schools makes it feel larger than a typical LAC.</p>
<p>UChicago? It's a university, obviously, but it has an excellent undergrad program, and is about 9000 in size.</p>