<p>-Sarah Lawrence
-Bard
-Vassar as a reach</p>
<p>Lots of good suggestions here, but many impractical with a 2000.</p>
<p>Not on the east coast but north of DC, Lewis and Clark in Portland OR. It’s actually in the suburbs of Portland and a short bus ride to downtown.</p>
<p>In my experience, some medium-sized universities (with, say, less than 10,000 undergrads) offer a lot of the same advantages as much-smaller liberal arts colleges (small classes, teachers interested in teaching, cohesive student body, etc)…so you might want to be flexible on the size of the school.</p>
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<p>Sarah Lawrence is inappropriate for a “math/science kid”, due to very limited course selection in those subjects.</p>
<p>Bard’s course selection in math and science is also rather limited, with some courses only offered once every two or three years.</p>
<p>Best would be to look at course catalogs in the intended or possible major subjects to make sure that each school has sufficient offerings to keep the student interested.</p>
<p>^ Another thing you can look at is the “Degrees Conferred” section of each school’s Common Data Set file (Section J) for the number of Math/Science graduates compared to all others. Among selective LACs, it seems to be fairly typical for about 20% of students to graduate in Biological Sciences, Physical Sciences, Math, or Computer Science (~20% for all 4 of these together). Carleton College (to take one example) has a much higher ratio (over 30%, I think).</p>
<p>You can also look at per capita PhD production in the STEM fields. Again, Carleton scores high by this measure. So do Swarthmore, Reed, and Grinnell.
[COLLEGE</a> PHD PRODUCTIVITY](<a href=“http://www.reed.edu/ir/phd.html]COLLEGE”>Doctoral Degree Productivity - Institutional Research - Reed College)</p>
<p>There is a Liberal Arts Computer Science Consortium (LACS,[LACS[/url</a>] ) and a liberal arts college consortium in Geology, called the Keck Consortium ([url=<a href=“http://keckgeology.org/]Keck”>http://keckgeology.org/]Keck</a> Research Opportunities for Undergraduates | Keck Geology Consortium](<a href=“http://www.lacs.edu/]LACS[/url”>http://www.lacs.edu/)). You could look up the schools and people involved in these activities. </p>
<p>For multiple indicators of science/math strength (PhD production, etc.), but without eye-popping entering stats, check out Kalamazoo, Lawrence, Earlham, or St. Olaf. With higher admission stats? Look at Reed, Grinnell, Mount Holyoke, Smith, Carleton, Wesleyan, and Wellesley. Higher still? Check out Williams, Pomona, Swarthmore, Harvey Mudd … and Rice, if you’re o.k. with a small university.</p>
<p>[Connecticut</a> College: Home Page](<a href=“http://conncoll.edu/]Connecticut”>http://conncoll.edu/) </p>
<p>Connecticut College in New London, CT.</p>
<p>This is great, thank you all so much! Tk, many of the schools you mention are on the list. So far she has Carleton, Mt. Holyoke, Wellesley, NYU Gallatin School (New York factor) and Barnard (reach but she is a legacy–her grandmother was in the class of 1956). We are planning to visit Brandeis/Tufts (which is super-competitive according to our school’s Naviance–was wondering if the engineering program might be a better way to go?) as well as Oberlin and The College of New Jersey.</p>
<p>Carleton is an excellent cold-weather LAC for a math/science person. The campus is pretty. One caution: it’s about an hour’s drive south of the Twin Cities, so it’s not urban. Cold weather in this case means REALLY cold, too.</p>
<p>Just throwing some out there…</p>
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<li>Tufts (Boston) </li>
<li>Boston College (Boston, might be a bit big too)</li>
<li>Vanderbilt (Nashville, perhaps bigger than you want)</li>
<li>William and Mary (not near a big city though)</li>
<li>University of Miami (might not be quite at the level you want though)</li>
<li>Tulane (New Orleans)</li>
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<p>There have been suggestions in this thread for Carleton, St. Olaf and Macalester, all outstanding LAC’s. The big plus from the prospective student and family standpoint is you can easily visit all of these schools in the same day since they are close to each other. Something to consider if visiting. We made it to Carleton and St. Olaf from the airport in 40 minutes. Great recommendations.</p>
<p>I second Rice. It has approx 3500 undergrads, not a large grad student population, an inclusive residential college system (like the houses in Harry Potter), and it is located in a nice, convenient part of Houston. It was also recently ranked #1 recently by Best Quality of Life and for Happiest Students by Princeton Review.</p>
<p>Haverford, Bryn Mayr, Villanova, Swarthmore - near Phila.
Tufts, BC, Brandeis - near Boston
Barnard, Fordham (Rose Hill) - near NYC
My S is at Fordham and loves the access to NYC. Good luck.</p>