The Dickinson international program sounds great! I will look into the school more, but I think I’m looking for slightly larger schools. I don’t have a huge preference with size, but would prefer something more between the 4,000 to 15,000 undergrad range.
Based on this note look at Pitt, Macalester (on the list you referenced and U Denver …Also on the list.
Good luck.
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Ah the midsized school near but not in a big city is indeed the holy grail! And equally hard to find! In addition to the ones on your list Tufts would qualify I think. Pre recent legal developments my d also applied to Emory which I think is suburban Atlanta and a great midsize school. At this point I wouldn’t send a child (particularly a girl) to Georgia but your parents’ views may differ. Wesleyan is not as near to any big city as they pretend but is an amazing midsize school with access to both Boston and NYC. There are other schools near but not in DC like James Madison, George Mason, and Catholic U but I don’t know much about them.
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For an opinion on pursuing a major in public policy, this course of study might be especially suitable for you if (1) you would like to take a range of foundational classes in political science, economics and philosophy and (2) envision yourself perhaps contributing to practical approaches to seemingly complex societal issues.
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I think your info is a bit dated. BU had a tiny acceptance rate this year. Like many schools (Northeastern) and others, things have changed. A lot. So the school someone applied to even 5 years ago might be easier than a school that has focused on climbing the ranks. Kids should focus, IMO, on the programs and what they like about each program and school. Visit the schools and see what is important and what you like/dislike. Forget about someone else’s perception regarding #, vs # etc. For the most part, schools fall into tiers. These days, NEU and BU aren’t really anyone’s safety. Like Tufts, they want to accept kids who will likely enroll.
My very high stats high EC legacy kid got a reject from BU. The school was put on the “Safeties list” by the school’s CG. It wasn’t top of my kids list. But my kid did get into GT, also not top of the list. Kid isn’t attending either school. Schools are reading applications carefully and know who is likely to attend so EA/ED etc go a long way.
But similar results happened with peers in the class of '22. I would not say that GT is that much “harder” to get into than BU except for SFS. There were top kids who got into and rejected from both. YMMV.
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FWIW, my D22 was accepted to BC, Georgetown-SFS, but was waitlisted at BU which she declined.
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I guess it all depends on how you regard New Haven. Providence is only a little bit bigger and yet I find New Haven the more interesting of the two.
Btw, Middletown itself is not big, but it has a pretty well developed transit system. There’s not a big box store or chain restaurant that isn’t easily accessible - for free. Wesleyan students, however, tend to stick to downtown.
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