<p>MY J is undecided as what to major in. We live in New Jersey and have only toured TCNJ. She wants a mid-size school, about 15,000. I need suggestions on state schools with good honors programs or private schools that would give merit aid. She wants to be 3 to 4 hours from home. Any suggestions are welcome. Here are her stats:</p>
<p>GPA: 3.8 u/w
SAT: 2130/760M/690CR/680CW
EC's: Skills USA State Treasurer; Skills USA President (local chapter); Honor Society; Choir; DARE Fundraising</p>
<p>I can't think of anything else.
Thanks,
Mbe</p>
<p>Penn State is big, but has an excellent honors college- one of the best. This makes the university feel "smaller" in many ways.
U of Delaware also has a good honors program.
As for smaller LACs, what about Lafayette, Colgate, Bucknell.</p>
<p>I'm not sure if size is definitively used to classify LAC's, but it's definitely important for a LAC to be small for it to carry out its mission.</p>
<p>The largest LAC's hardly push 4000 students. Many are in the 1000 range, and some have very small enrollment in the 100s.</p>
<p>15,000 is definitely a large school, and make sure she's ready for all of its problems. (I thought I wanted a huge school until I started to think about it).</p>
<p>Check out Rutgers (hons.), and some of the better SUNY's like Binghamton or Stony Brook (for science.) University of Maryland and UConn are high quality state schools. University of Rochester is a smaller university but it gives loads of merit aid. Penn State at University Park sounds like a great option since its very well respected and there's loads to do there. It's also enormous.</p>
<p>There have to be many more good state schools in the area I just can't think of them.</p>