Stay within 2 hours of san diego by either car or by flight. Direct flight to pacific northwest is kind of barely within that limit.
Pepperdine not the right fit for this kid, but thanks for the suggestion!
@ SlitheyTove, have your neice check out Mills College in Oakland. It’s a lovely College and a very nice size. Another college to check out is Domicon College in San Rafael.
Lewis and Clark is likely a high match, Whitman would be a reach but both worth considering. I agree with adding Willamette and she might want to take a peek at Seattle Pacific University as a safety, it’s not mentioned much in here but a lovely school and while it is faith based it’s more service oriented than anything. Our decidedly non religious oldest was quite happy there. I’d also suggest a look at Western Washington University, it’s a nice size. UPS is a solid match and would be a good fit.
My S17 has both Western and UPS on his list, with UPS in the top 3-4. Everything else is out of state (east coast/mid Atlantic) . There may be others in the colleges that change lives list that could fit your Niece, it was a good resource for my son.
I wouldn’t call the PNW cold but it’s not San Diego warm either although I’ve had some cool visits there.
“Lewis and Clark is likely a high match, Whitman would be a reach but both worth considering. I agree with adding Willamette and she might want to take a peek at Seattle Pacific University as a safety, it’s not mentioned much in here but a lovely school and while it is faith based it’s more service oriented than anything. Our decidedly non religious oldest was quite happy there. I’d also suggest a look at Western Washington University, it’s a nice size. UPS is a solid match and would be a good fit.”
Agree with much of that as a fellow PNWesterner, but to my surprise, the common data sets support what others have been telling me for a while now: L&C is harder to get into than Whitman. And now that Whitman is test optional, that provides yet another avenue for those not good at taking standardized tests.
We have a boyfriend in our lives who is a basketball player at SPU and really does love it; he is thriving there. So I could not agree more about Seattle Pacific. Not a big name, but the kids are nicely educated when they leave.
^^ it’s funny, our naviance shows my S17 having a better chance at Reed than and either Whitman or L&C.
That said I’ve seen some recent L&C acceptances that leads me to put it back into low reach high match category.
Thing is, to me, UPS and Willamette and SPU will all offer merit, the other two none or minimal. And while lovely schools I’m honestly not sure they are with the substantial price difference. Which is why S17 didn’t apply to L&C.
Linfield on the other hand will offer merit likely equal to the 3 mentioned above but I think is still overpriced with that so didn’t mention it at all.
Pacific Lutheran is another popular one but didn’t seem to be a good fit for the niece.
Our issue with PLU, in all candor, was the location. Parkland is simply depressing, and the campus at PLU is uninspired. That said, it has about as enthusiastic and loyal an alumni base as you’ll find. So they’re doing something right down there.
CSU Channel Islands.
Lol. I confess I’ve lived in the PNW of my life and have never set foot on PLU’s campus. Then again I’d never been to UPS till last spring.
Just to correct an earlier post from MiddleburyDad2 – usually he’s spot on. But Williams College is decidedly NOT test optional. Middlebury and Bowdoin are the two NESCAC schools that come to mind as test optional.
Correction- Middlebury is NOT test optional. It is test flexible- an applicant can submit 3 SATII subject test scores in lieu of an ACT or SAT score. I believe Colby has a similar policy. Bowdoin, Bates, Trinity, Conn College, and Wesleyan are the test optional NESCAC schools.
@SwimDad99 , sorry for the confusion. I see the way I wrote that sentence could lead someone to believe that I was including Williams as a TO school, which, as you point out, it is definitely not. What I meant was, if a school like Williams, which recruits athletes and takes its performance on the field seriously, were to introduce a TO policy, one might cynically conclude that the TO avenue is really more reserved for hooked applicants like athletes, whereas at Whitman, a TO policy can be taken at face value because they don’t really care about sports there that much.
Sorry for that.