<p>I'm thinking in majoring in something like philosophy, history, linguistics, political science, literature or anything else along thoses lines. Any suggestions for schools that are good in most of these departments? Not just Harvard, Yale, etc, but some schools with a little lower acceptance rate.</p>
<p>You mean higher rate? 
Try Georgetown, Northwestern, and just about any liberal arts college will have strong departments there</p>
<p>Most top schools will have good programs in those areas. We need more info. What size school do you want? Urban, suburban, rural? Greek life/athletics as the dominant social scene? What geographic limitations?</p>
<p>smaller school (< 5,000 would be prefered, but 10,000 to 15,000 max), suburban would be best, not a dominant athletic scene but a more socially diverse scene, and probably take out any southern schools</p>
<p>actually school size is not necessary, but smaller class size is; I do not want to being taking a majority of lecture hall classes</p>
<p>We also need some idea of your stats to see where you’d be a realistic candidate.</p>
<p>Try Macalester. It has a definite real-world perspective and it strives to make its students “global citizens”. And it puts a lot of emphasis on Philosophy, political Science, foreign language skills and the likes. So you will be well served there.</p>
<p>well I’ll probably graduate with around a 3.75 UW GPA, I volunteer at a day care center and I’m in key club (just a club that helps out with the community) and I’m thinking about joining newspaper, 5 AP’s (all my schools offers, sad) and like 5-7 honors (again schools problem), but I’m from montana and what I’ve heard from teachers, and my parents is that is going to be the most decisive factor.</p>
<p>Montana is very cool, and that’ll probably help you out some.</p>
<p>A couple more questions, sorry: Standardized test scores? And do you need financial aid?</p>
<p>I’ll second Macalester and add the following LACs: Carleton, Haverford, Kalamazoo.</p>
<p>Its ok about the questions. I have only taken the ACT, 27 composite (I’m taking it again), highest in math at 31 and I’m not sure about the others. I also took the PSAT but those scores aren’t back yet. I really need financial aid, I probably need the cost to be down to about 25,000$ after aid. I am considering Mac. and Carleton, my other favorites would be U Penn, Stanford, Pomona and U of Chicago (reaches probably), so any other schools I would like, keep in mind the easier acceptance rate.</p>
<p>If you don’t want to sit in a lot of lectures, then liberal arts colleges in suburban locations sound like a pretty good fit. No big sports or greek scene at most of the top LACs either. Assuming your SATs are over 2,100 (or the ACT equivalent), you could be a slight reach or match at the following places: (Match if you are male, slight reach if you are female)</p>
<p>Possible Surburan LACs: Swarthmore, Haverford, Vassar, Macalester, Pomona, Claremont McKenna</p>
<p>LAC-like: Brown, Rice</p>
<p>Holy Cross-nice LAC near Boston. Maybe Bowdoin also.</p>
<p>a couple of questions/thought on suggestions
- its seems like Kalamazoo had a weak philosophy department (my predominant major choice)
2)how Roman Catholic is Holy Cross, I really dont want a devoted religious school - I known Claremont Mckenna and Pomona are right next to each other, so which one is better academically
- I think NW and Georgetown would be too big/athletically based, but you wouldn’t have know that I dont like that from my OP (sorry)
- is Haverford easier to get into than my listed schools (Stanford, U of Penn, U of Chicago, Macalester, Carleton, and Pomona)</p>
<p>If you want a small atmosphere, I would consider Rice in Houston. Although we are known for science/engineering, our humanities departments are also strong. We only have 3300 undergrads, and we are an undergrad focused university… we are the nation’s second smallest university, behind CalTech.</p>
<p>Other schools you should strongly consider for humanities/size: Dartmouth, Brown, Duke, Williams, Amherst, Macalaster, Pomona/Claremont McKenna, Kenyon, Swarthmore, and UChicago. </p>
<p>Also, most of the stereotypes of the South are incorrect… I even think that the South, at least today, is more progressive than the North. Unless you hate warm weather or laid-back people, the South is an excellent place to go to school. You need to keep a more open-minded approach in the admissions process and not consider schools just because they are in the South. I understand if it the South is too far away from home, but you shouldn’t discount the South for any other reason.</p>
<p>Holy Cross is a Jesuit school like Georgetown and recruits students from all backgrounds. Like Georgetown, HC is not that religious.</p>
<p>I just don’t like the south’s heat and humidity, I’m from Montana so I’m used to it being pretty dry and generally cold, thats what I meant by not wanting southern schools, not anythin about the people or stereotypes.</p>
<p>That is very understandable… I’m glad that you are not narrow-minded like other CC posters who only apply to Northern/West Coast schools because they consider the South full of rednecks.</p>
<p>By the way, it does get quite cold in the South as well… it is only hot during the summer months (which you will not be here for most likely), September, and parts of October and August. You get used to it, and air-conditioning is a given.</p>
<p>I am used to rednecks anyway, Montana has its fair share, and some of them are not bad and most stereotypes are hyperbole.</p>
<p>I might end up appplying to Rice just because it’s a top tier school with a lower cost, I’m only a junior so I have time.</p>