<p>It doesn’t hit all the areas of the checklist, but take a look at Kalamazoo College. It is very popular with academic families in my town.</p>
<p>"Welcome to Kalamazoo College.</p>
<p>Together in a fellowship in learning, the members of the Kalamazoo College community are developing a model of an educated citizen that combines scholarship, civic engagement, and in-depth living experiences in other countries…"</p>
<p>I’d like to join the chorus of Dickinson and Gettysburg. My son got great merit aid offers there and he wasn’t in the NMSF range. I think these schools do OK with need-based, too. The only negatives might a Greek/preppy culture.</p>
<p>If you’re going to consider at Hopkins, you might as well give Loyola U of Md a quick look. Less selective, Greek-free, and in need of geographic/ethnic diversity. A boy with great stats would be a shoo-in.</p>
<p>Latin is a great springboard to modern languages! I started with Latin in HS also and originally planned to major in Latin/Greek but quickly saw the advantages of modern languages. The strong background in Latin made the spanish/portuguese learning go very quickly with some confusion occasionally. We are bilingual household because my husband is from S. America but I became fluent before I met H by taking intensive spanish in college and then portuguese in grad school using scholarships to learn while I still had a flexible brain. The key is immersion…do language crash courses abroad if at all possible and NOT with some group of american students living together taking spanish classes together…not helpful. My son’s ex gf took german in hs but realized that spanish was essential for her career so in just one year of college and a summer has become quite good at it. </p>
<p>The tragedy of immigrants being forced or shamed into losing their native language continues. My H and I are horrified at new immigrants here that refuse to speak/read/write in spanish as if it is something shameful. Luckily we were able to move to a county that values bilingual education and offers a strong spanish immersion program through high school and our kids are able to read/write at a college level in both languages as well as speak spanish fluently. In other areas of the state we do get nasty looks and actively hostile comments when we speak in Spanish at restaurants, etc. but it is less and less frequent.</p>
<p>University of Mary Washington offers a BA in [international</a> affairs](<a href=“http://www.umw.edu/cas/polisci/courses/international_affairs_ba_r.php]international”>http://www.umw.edu/cas/polisci/courses/international_affairs_ba_r.php). UMW is a nice mid-size about 30 miles south of DC in Fredericksburg, VA but it has an up & coming IA program with internship opportunities in DC. The IA program offers concentrations in national security, international econ/bus, and area studies. Also offers language studies (up to 400-level in everything except Chinese) & study abroad opportunities, which are essential to IA/IR studies. Down side: the program seems to be light in IR theory. UMW does NOT have Greek life and it also offers good merit aid. If you visit the DC schools (AU, GWU, G’town), don’t overlook UMW.</p>