<p>I am intl male student, a nerd and a 'bit' quirky:) I am interested only in Liberal Arts Colleges. I having been doing research for past two months and I think Reed is the perfect school for me. I will be giving SAT in December; so expecting 2150+</p>
<p>I need a few safeties so incase things don't work out the way I want them to, I will have some schools to fall back on. The problem is I will need financial aid and I don't have much EC's.
-on average of 30 hrs per week of library (I spend my whole day there) :)
Can I count this as an EC?!!</p>
<p>-History club member
-member of college magazine committee</p>
<p>Phew...thats all I can think of!</p>
<p>Macalester College
Colorado College
Lafayette College
Kenyon
Richmond
Whitman College
Union College
Connecticut College
New College of Florida
Lake Forest College
Sarah Lawrence
Earlham
Grinnell
Claremont McKenna
Wahington and Lee
Hamilton
Bates
Franklin & Marshall
Oberlin</p>
<p>This list is by no means comprehensive. Please feel free to suggest colleges that are not included here. I have no time or inclination to check out individual colleges to find whether they would be a good match (similar to reed in curriculum, thesis project, deemphasize on grade, no greek/frat life and full of quirky fellows like me) for me. If someone could help me out, I would be grateful to them. Thanks</p>
<p>While not technically a LAC, I would say that UChicago fits the spirit you seem to be seeking. I would also suggest Haverford, Swarthmore, Princeton, Vassar and St. John's (MD) that have many similar features or atmosphere to Reed. I would specifically say that the environment at Lafayette, Hamilton, URichmond and W&L to be distinctly different than the feel of Reed.</p>
<p>thanks...but I have already ruled out Haverford, Swarthmore, Princeton, Vassar and St. John's (MD) - these require SAT Subject Tests (which I am not giving).</p>
<p>If you don't have the inclination to research schools, chances are you won't do well in the admissions process. I don't think a single school on your list is need blind to internationals. This means you will need to be at the very top of their applicants unless you're a URM from a very remote country. if you're from Asia, Canada, Australia or Western Europe, you'll need a small miracle. So I suggest some research.</p>
<p>I like your list, but agree with Gellino about four of the schools being different. I am also worried about the financial aid aspects. You need to do serious research on which schools give aid at all to internationals. Flagler College may be good (I believe that they do). The honors programs at some public universities may be good.</p>
<p>Might add Holy Cross and Trinity. Holy Cross has nice location-1 hour from Boston and seeks international students while Trinity is in Hartford.</p>
<p>Swarthmore is one of the few schools that I know of that gives aid to international students. It also fits your description somewhat although the lack of ecs is a problem unless you are from a country that has few applicants.</p>
<p>Ok. Swarthmore and connecticut are out since they require SAT Subject Tests....Holy Cross is catholic ie conservative; I would prefer liberal schools with no religious affliations, so thats out..</p>
<p>Not sure one can lump a school like Holy Cross conservative because its religious affiliation. HC is a Jesuit Catholic school which is more liberal than W&L and some of its most prominent alums are fairly liberal.</p>