<p>It still looks weird.</p>
<p>If you don’t like the quirkiness of Brown/Wes or the intensity of UChicago, get rid of Swarthmore, because it is just a mix of both of those things. It doesn’t matter that it’s one of the best LACs in the country if you won’t like is there. </p>
<p>I also still think you still have two manys schools to do all of their apps justice, maybe cut the one you like least from the schools that you grouped in catagories? (Or, cut the catagory or two that you liked least–from your descriptions, you don’t sound that excited about the Dartmouth/Bowdoin catagory).</p>
<p>The OP has 17 schools listed of which six might safely be said to be politically apathetic at best:
Duke
Stanford
Penn
Williams
Middlebury
Princeton (apologies to Woodrow Wilson and to Ralph Nader)</p>
<p>I don’t think that general political apathy is an issue, at least at the larger schools where there will be many niches. Unless he’s looking for passionate protests, which he won’t find at many, if any, of the schools on his list, it shouldn’t be an issue. There will still be plenty of people willing to have political discussions and opportunities for political involvement.</p>
<p>Might want to add some safety LAC’s like Colgate,Holy Cross, Trinity. Holy Cross is in a mid=size city(1hour from Boston) Trinity in Hartford while Colgate is more remote.</p>
<p>Where are your safeties, bro??? </p>
<p>You’re brilliant from your stats, but colleges are a crapshoot, and safeties are key!!!</p>
<p>wow this thread is pretty helpful since i’m kind of in the same situation only i have only 1/3 of your list.</p>
<p>UT-Austin is my guaranteed match… in Texas if you’re in the top 10% then there’s a spot waiting for you. I’d be pretty happy there, too… especially if I got in the plan II program.</p>