<p>How would u rank these colleges in each category?
1. strong Pre-med program
2. campus location (2 hr drive within a city-at least 100000 people)
3. have a laid-back, home-like atmosphere
4. weather condition
5. campus aesthetics
6. dormitory cleaness
7. class difficulty </p>
<p>Carleton, Colby, Colgate, macalester, Middlebury,lafayette, and Williams</p>
<p>What about a small school (2500 students), Trinity University? I'm attending in the fall. It's in San Antonio, which gets 300 days of sunshine a year. They do a great job at class bonding, and there are no teaching assistants. The classes are taught by professors with degrees from Harvard, Penn, Rice, Berkeley, etc. The dorms are AWESOME and the best I have ever seen and the campus is like a park with those really cool gnarly trees and the buildings are well maintained. The average old SAT is about 1290. MANY of the students are pre-med.</p>
<p>Have you thought about Notre Dame?
It has a great family feel to it, dorms have rivalries between them, so you have great friendships with other people in your dorm, beautiful campus, near enough to a large city, (I think) it has beautiful weather (somewhat cold, but I like that), and it has good academics all around.
It may very well be a tough reach for you, but I think you'd love it if you got in.</p>
<p>I agree with other people that also sudjested Rice.</p>
<p>Notre Dame a tough reach? Because of my scores? or pretty much my resume in general</p>