<p>Hi! I'm searching for colleges that might be a good fit for my sister. She is very friendly and social, and she's smart academically, but she's not very alternative or hipster at all. I think she got somewhere in the 2100-2200s on her SATs. She doesn't drink excessively, and so far has liked schools where students have a kind of gentility or honorable conduct, for lack of a better word. A supportive community feel is very important to her in a college, and anything cut-throat is not for her. Any ideas? Thanks for your help!</p>
<p>What is your home state and what can your family afford?</p>
<p>Thanks for reminding me! We live in Wisconsin, but I go to school on the East coast, so Mid-Atlantic, Southeast, Northeast, and Midwest are all great options. We’re lucky enough that price isn’t a huge factor. The school academics and “vibe” is what we’re looking at most at this point</p>
<p>She sounds like a fit for St. Olaf; it’s where my sister goes. They’re huge on trust, so much that students’ mailboxes don’t have locks and they rarely lock their doors.</p>
<p>Also, a school I’m looking at is Tufts University and although I haven’t visited it yet it sounds similar.</p>
<p>Check out Tufts. It fits that description.</p>
<p>Haverford has a great honor system in everything, and is small enough that it’s got a really good community feel.</p>
<p>St Olaf is a great recommendation. They take their honor code seriously and it would be hard to find a nicer student body. Washington & Lee is also known for their honor code.</p>
<p>Another school to consider is Furman in South Carolina. It also has many of the traits you are looking for. Good luck</p>
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<p>Thanks everyone! These are all very insightful, spot on recommendations. I had to chuckle a little bit, because I go to Haverford! So bottom line, you’re really nailing it, keep the suggestions coming</p>
<p>Whitman College, eastern Washington State. It doesn’t have the quaker tradition, so there isn’t an honor code, but the students are very supportive of each other and important issues on campus are discussed openly and rationally by students and administration. Gregarious friendly student body in a great small town: [The</a> five best small towns in America - USATODAY.com](<a href=“http://travel.usatoday.com/destinations/story/2011/07/The-five-best-small-towns-in-America/49573514/1]The”>http://travel.usatoday.com/destinations/story/2011/07/The-five-best-small-towns-in-America/49573514/1)</p>
<p>My S is a sophomore at Whitman. He was also accepted to Tufts, but this is how he summed up his visit there (of course, only one teenager’s opinion): “There are a bunch of really bright kids there, who know that they’re really bright and are going to tell me about it for the next 4 years.”</p>
<p>On the second read of the description of your sister, I would like to amend my post. Gentile and honorable are two traits you’ve emphasized. I think honorable applies to Whitman but maybe not gentile, the students are pretty relaxed and casual in a west coast kind of way. Nice is a word that springs to mind, but they do have fun, sometimes rather boisterous fun.</p>
<p>Ooppps! I did mean genteel! Jeesh, can’t trust those aging brain cells.</p>
<p>(OK, I’ll quit now)</p>