Looking for colleges that are larger and D1 but liberal arts-esque, like Wake Forest

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Does anyone have any examples?

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William & Mary

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Notre Dame, 8,000 undergrads, small classes. ND is much more LAC like than Wake.

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Maybe Lehigh.

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Lehigh is a good one.

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Thank you all. Any others?

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Bucknell and College of the Holy Cross are D1 and larger than the typical LAC

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U of Richmond. Boston College feels a lot smaller than its enrollment…academic buildings all clustered in one manageable section of campus, with dorms either to the east or the west.

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Colgate is also D1 and somewhat larger than the typical LAC

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Miami U in Oxford Ohio. Less than 20,000 students. Very preppy and draws from Chicago.

The focus is undergraduate teaching.

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Maybe I’m interpreting it wrong, but I think the OP was asking for LAC - like big schools rather than big school - like LAC’s.

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Brown?

What specific characteristics of LACs are you looking for?

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UTulsa, Davidson

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My account froze or something, so I made a new one, this is the OP. What I really meant was a tight-knit college with a small population and small class sizes but with relevant D1 athletic programs. I suppose my title was poorly worded, I meant “large” as in the athletics not the size of the college. While I understand that sports should not play a large role in my decision I plan to participate in sports and want to do it on the D1 level, and also I want the atmosphere that I think comes with having a big athletics program.

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It would maybe help to know the sport.

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Then Colgate and the other Patriot League school suggestions have been good ones.

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You personally want to play D1 spots? Which sport? Have you been recruited?

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Tulane

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Look at the Patriot League schools, but some are D1 league members for only certain sports. Research whether they have the “relevant” athletics you want.

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Cross Country/ Track is the sport I’d like to compete in, I’ll research on my own their programs. I just meant an atmosphere in which people care a little about some of the sports teams (I know cross country won’t be one, I mean like football, basketball, etc.) Doesn’t have to be to the love of, say, Alabama or anything. I suppose more than athletics I just meant a strong sense of school spirit.