<p>Hi I have recently visited Boston College, Villanova, and Wake Forrest. I loved all three schools and was wondering if anyone could suggest some similar schools for me to look at. I partularly liked these three colleges for these reasons:
1. School spirit and d1 athletic programs
2. Medium size undergraduate enrollment
3.fantastic business programs
4.location near cities
5. Relatively non diverse student bodies
If anyone has any suggestions they would be most appreciated, thanks!</p>
<p>maybe Georgetown, Tulane, Vanderbilt, URichmond?</p>
<p>What can your family afford?</p>
<p>hard without knowing your stats, but to start: holy cross, american, syracuse, richmond, fordham, colorado</p>
<p>Money doesn’t play a large role in my search</p>
<p>I have a 3.66 cumulative gpa (on a 4.3 scale), however I go to a college preparatory school well known for their academic rigor (I think that the weight for my school is a .5). I got a 32 on my ACT the first time and plan to retake it. I will graduate with 3 AP credits and 7 Honors courses. I’m also involved outside of the classroom as well, as I am a member of NHS, President of Key Club, President of Pottery Club, a Varsity cheerleader, an RA in my dorm, and among other things involved in Young Republicans.</p>
<p>What are some differences in Holy Cross and Villanova?</p>
<p>Are you planning to live out the rest of your life in a “relatively non diverse” society? </p>
<p>In what country, may I ask? </p>
<p>You might consider using your college years to get used to working and interacting and living with the broad range of people you’re going to need to deal with over the next three-quarters of a century or so.</p>
<p>I have the same question as annasdad.</p>
<p>If you want white + wealthy + conservative + urban you might try SMU in Dallas.</p>
<p>I appreciate the concern but this is what I’ve found attractive in these schools. I’m not running from diversity I just hope that where I go to school, for only a brief four years in my life, that the community in which I live has many people who share common interests, beliefs, and goals as me. This is merely a preference of mine. I’m not asking for a sheltered college experience as many of the schools listed above are prestigious and well respected in the communities in which they reside and far beyond; I only appreciate a college community in which I will be well represented.
I would also like to inform you that I am from Alabama, where for many of my peers the college choice has been designated either Auburn or Alabama by their parents. Pursuing a college life above the mason-dixon line turns heads, for as one parent I know put it “Why would you want to live with damn yankees?”. My interest in these three schools particularly Villanova and Boston College is far from ordinary, therefore an accusation that I am “denying myself of living with a broad range of people” I find to be a bit of an overstatement. For if you could step in my shoes for but a brief moment it might give you greater insight into my search for a college. </p>
<p>Thanks for your interest in the situation.</p>
<p>Well, you seem to know what you want, and that’s good. Getting out of the south will be eye-opening no matter where you go.</p>
<p>Many colleges ARE fairly liberal overall. But most have conservative student groups, or organizations for Christians, or other ways for people of different views to find others like them. You might steer clear of stridently “left-leaning” schools, but I am guessing (and hoping) you would find the majority pretty tolerant and open-minded.</p>
<p>University of Virginia
Notre Dame
Miami of Ohio
SMU</p>
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Does that mean your parents will pay $50K+/year for a school?</p>
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<p>Since you chose to address your response to me by name and put that phrase into quotes, I am constrained to point out that I did not say that - nor, for that matter, did anyone else on this thread. (This is the Internet, and stuff is easy to look up.)</p>
<p>Nor did I make an accusation. I posed two questions and made a suggestion. If you want to consider that an accusation, that I cannot control.</p>
<p>And the questions and suggestion were made based on your criterion, “Relatively non diverse student bodies.” And the three schools you mention (BC 20% minority, Wake Forest and Villanova 17%) are not all that more diverse than UA (16%) or Auburn (13%).</p>
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<p>With perhaps the exception of a few outliers, almost any college you go to is going to have people whose politics and religion are what passes today for “conservative.” (I would suspect that there are a lot more outliers on the purely conservative side, since there are a number of so-called colleges that have conservative politics and/or religion as an explicit part of their mission statements, and none that I’m aware of on the other side - though I acknowledge that the atmosphere at many colleges weights liberal.) </p>
<p>Whenever I see a post like this (from either pole of the political spectrum), it raises the question in my mind: is this person’s politics - or faith, or lack thereof - so fragile that they are afraid of it being shaken by vigorous argument from the other side? (Not an accusation, just a question, and really more of a general one than one directed specifically to this OP.)</p>
<p>Lmao… It’s understandable for a male cheerleader to want to leave Alabama. =P </p>
<p>But seriously, look at Tulane and Vanderbilt. Maybe at BU too, though it’s kinda’ big for your taste.</p>
<p>There are some schools that come to mind with your “non-diverse, conservative” beliefs. However, I must say that you should use your undergrad years to really embrace other cultures and beliefs, not shelter yourself from them. The vast, vast majority of top-tier institutions in the United States are diverse and liberal. One of the best parts of college is meeting people from all over the world who are different than you.</p>
<p>For schools that would put you in new experiences:
George Washington University
Northeastern University
Boston University
Tufts University</p>
<p>Conservative and relatively non-diverse schools:
Southern Methodist University
Miami University of Ohio</p>
<p>Or maybe you should have a middle-ground environment:
Notre Dame
Wake Forest
Boston College
University of Virginia
Georgetown University</p>
<p>Holy Cross might be a good choice.</p>
<p>Thanks for all the help from everyone! I’d like to point out though that I’m much less focused on the diversity than the other things that I listed in my original list. The other aspects of those schools I listed are more important to me.</p>