<p>Middlebury is hardly a tier below Amherst and Williams in terms of selectivity.</p>
<p>Many say Stanford > Duke (though both obviously superselective)</p>
<p>with the exception of climate, Duke & Northwestern have very similar social and academic atmospheres. </p>
<p>also when visiting tufts i felt it was a lot like hopkins, so theres another alternative to tufts</p>
<p>Vassar, not including zero degree climate or extremely rural setting?</p>
<p>If you like Vassar you would like Wesleyan.</p>
<p>If you like Harvey Mudd, you may also like Rose Hulman, because they’re both small engineering schools with undergrad-focused faculty, other science majors, and a healthy amount of liberal arts - a LAC for scientists.</p>
<p>If you like MIT, you may also like Case Western, because they’re both small universities (4200 undergrads each) focused on math and science, but have other majors, good reputations, and access to large cities.</p>
<p>And I hate to be the first one to on the thread to disagree with someone and potentially cause problems, but I feel the need. Although Harvey Mudd is slightly easer to get into than Caltech, it really isn’t the same. Harvey Mudd is a LAC for geeks and has good scientific research, and Caltech is a research institution with more cutting-edge, better-funded research. My son was accepted to both Mudd and Caltech, but chose Mudd even though it was a wee bit more expensive because he wanted the LAC feel with research.
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<p>If you like Williams, you’ll definitely like Vassar.</p>
<p>If you like Williams, you’ll like Union College (NY).</p>
<p>Any ideas for Pomona College?</p>
<p>Pomona –> a whole host of lovely LACs, one of which is Colorado College</p>
<p>This is a great thread that is very useful this time of year. Anybody else have any insight to share?</p>
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That’s basically the same selectivity (nearly the same acceptance rate, basically the same stats). </p>
<p>If you like Kenyon you would like Denison.
If you would like Carleton you would like Macalester.
If you would like Reed you would like Lewis and Clark.</p>
<p>If you love Claremont McKenna ---- you’d like ???</p>
<p>If you like Northwestern you may like…WashU? Similar rankings, same size range, both in older, nice neighborhoods in major cities in the midwest. Nortwestern has school spirit, however.</p>
<p>I agree that NU is similar to WashU but both schools are very highly selective and similarly ranked so you’re not going down a level.</p>
<p>Stanford is similar to Duke in terms of academics, climate and sports but they are very different with regards to social climate and campus location.</p>
<p>Princeton>Duke>Vandy</p>
<p>These schools are the most similar I think with Princeton being the best academically and having the worst social life while Vandy is the polar opposite. Duke is better than both at sports and Princeton’s climate is colder than its two counterparts.</p>
<p>if you like University of Michigan, you will also like… Help me out here.</p>
<p>^^^Wisconsin</p>
<p>Michigan State too; Michigan>Wisconsin>MSU</p>
<p>Princeton>Georgetown>ND>BC>Fordham>Holy Cross>Providence College</p>
<p>Columbia>Northwestern>NYU>Northeastern>BU>George Washington</p>
<p>UCLA>USC>Loyola</p>
<p>Duke>Vanderbilt>Emory>Wake Forest</p>