<p>Please list as many as you can think of! Thank you :) Please even list colleges that are less selective. Thank you :) </p>
<p>Sorry! Meant please list as many as you can think of! Even list colleges that are less selective. Thank you :)</p>
<p>Please tell us what it is that you like about MHC so that people can give you specific recommendations.</p>
<p>Well, there is another small women’s college also in the same five school consortium…</p>
<p>Of course! I love the low student-faculty ratio, the consortium which offers a plethora of classes, the setting, the academic opportunities, and the social justice message. I looked at Smith but I feel like that is too nonconformist for me. </p>
<p>Bowdoin and Bates are really nice I’ve heard, but if you thought MHC was too in the middle of nowhere, these are literally in Middle of Nowhere, Maine. I’m looking at MHC as well (top choice) and I’m also looking at Swarthmore (that’s really hard to get into), Haverford, Bryn Mawr (the three of which are in a consortium). Out in the west coast, Claremont McKenna, Scripps, Pomona and Harvey Mudd are in a consortium. For a more activist/hippie campus, Hampshire is good, though its academics aren’t as good at Holyoke. I’ve also heard good things about Vassar and Hamilton, both in upstate NY. Swarthmore, Haverford and BM are all in PA, near Philly. Hope this helps!!</p>
<p>If you’re willing to venture out of the northeast, I’ve heard great things about Agnes Scott College, in Georgia. I heartily second the Scripps suggestion - the consortium in Claremont is more interdependent than the one in western Massachusetts. </p>
<p>Thank you all for your help! To be honest Mount Holyoke College is my top choice and is my reach school. I have a 3.0 GPA but go to an elite private school on the West Coast. I am still working on my SAT score but it should be around an 1800. I have already had an interview with MHC and it went perfectly! But, if MHC does not work out Early Decision, what are other similar schools around my standings?</p>
<p>I’d also suggest raising your SAT score and GPA, because schools like Swarthmore, Haverford and Scripps won’t look at anything below a 2100 and at least a 3.5. With your scores, you mind find it hard to find a truly amazing LAC. But with those, look at Simmons College, Emmanuel College (both in Boston, MA), Stonehill College (Easton, MA) and Wheaton College (Norton, MA). I live near Stonehill and Wheaton and know people who go to both with similar stats.
What would be your intended major?</p>
<p>You are close enough to visit USD. </p>
<p>Psychology or Social Work.</p>
<p>I think your GC is going to have to help you with this. That gpa is problematic for what we see here with the type of school you are reaching for. Your GC will have a better idea of how your school name will help you, that is the advantage of elite private scools. Did you look at Mills? And I know an average student at a private who did really well at University of San Diego and it is a beautiful as well. Or do you want to get out of state? Did you look at the Colleges That Change Lives schools?</p>
<p>I did. Mills is on my list! My guidance counselor thinks that Bryn Mawr and Mount Holyoke are possible if I do ED. I am really strong with the activities I do outside of school. I probably cannot apply to more than one of the schools in the caliber of BMC or MHC. I hope this helps 
I have also looked at the Colleges that Change Lives. I don’t honestly care where I go. As long as it is near an urban area I am set :)</p>
<p>I do think MHC is a huge reach for you but I hope it works out. Some other ideas might be Goucher, (near Baltimore) or Siena (near Albany). </p>
<p>Great. Do you have a couple of for sure safeties? Are you full pay?</p>
<p>Yes, I am full pay. My safeties include Western Washington University, Seattle Pacific University, and Goucher College.</p>
<p>Pitzer?</p>
<p>Skidmore and Bard?</p>
<p>^ Skidmore and Bard are reaches in the same vein as MHC and Bryn Mawr, methinks…</p>
<p>I second Mills and Agnes Scott. Spelman if you may be interested in HBCUs. Check out Chatham U, a women’s college in Pittsburgh, Clark (social justice is very big there), Simmons (Boston), St Kate’s (Twin Cities). Good colleges for B/B+* students & in interesting cities also include St Thomas and Hamline in the Twin Cities, Elmhurst right by Chicago, St Mary’s of California and U San Francisco, U San diego, U Portlant, USeattle, Millsaps (Jackson, MS), Ogglethorpe (Atlanta - although I’d prefer ASC or Spelman!), College of Charleston (SC), Chapman (slight reach), Marist (1h30 from NYC by train so not quite urban but with city easily accessible), Siena (same thing). </p>
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<li>since you’re going to a very competitive high school, which should be made clear in your school profile, I think your average will be treated closer to a B+ and I assume rigor is there.</li>
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