<p>Hey, I was wondering if anyone out there familiar with either St. Olaf's College or Stanford University could reccomend school similar in atmosphere to these, but farther east. I know these schools are different, I'm just looking for a school that matches one of these colleges. The academic standards don't have to be as high as Stanford either.
Thanks!</p>
<p>St Olaf matches: LAC with some professional programs, tight campus, in nice town with freindly students: Gettysburg College, Washington and Lee, Beloit, Lawrence, Skidmore</p>
<p>If you like Stanford, you may like Emory, University of Pennsylvania, Northwestern, WUSTL, Fordham, Cornell, Rice, Carnegie Mellon, Johns Hopkins.</p>
<p>Comparable to Stanford might be Vanderbilt and Brown as well.
There are lots like ST. Olaf's---Bates, Colby, Hamilton (my favorite) and a slew of others in New England.</p>
<p>More eastern schools with similar feel to Stanford: Duke, Northwestern, Vanderbilt, UVA, UNC.</p>
<p>Dartmouth, Northwestern, and Brown.</p>
<p>What do you mean by similar atmosphere??? I can't tell you about St. Olaf since I've never heard of it...</p>
<p>If you like St. Olaf, you might try looking at the other members of the Lutheran College Association to which St. Olaf belongs -- <a href="http://www.lutherancolleges.org/%5B/url%5D">http://www.lutherancolleges.org/</a></p>
<p>On the east coast, Muhlenberg, Gettysburg, and Lenoir Rhyne are all members, and I would say someone comfortable at St. Olaf could find a home at all three -- but there are others.</p>
<p>I'd also suggest you look at Denison in Ohio.</p>
<p>And, not yet mentioned as comparable to Stanford in feel - Tufts.</p>
<p>Colgate? Closer in size to St. Olaf than some of the others. Wdn't have as much religion (though I wouldn't expect religion to dominate St. Olaf's.</p>
<p>I've asked the mirror image of your question-- St. Olaf in the West. It would also be great to find an affordable Stanford.</p>
<p>Thanks everyone!</p>
<p>Davidson is a small college like St. Olaf, with that same tight knit community and all the benefits of a small college. However it also has warm weather, pretty campus, and happy, active people like Stanford does.</p>
<p>I'm biased because I go to Davidson, but you might also want to look into Williams, Amherst, Haverford, Bowdoin, Bates, Brown, Haverford, Swarthmore, Vanderbilt, Emory, Wake Forest, Duke, and Middlebury.</p>