<p>What do you think are the top 10 lacs in the midwest? I know rankings are arbitrary blah blah but I don’t want to hear it. This is just for fun.</p>
<li>Carleton College</li>
<li>Macalester College </li>
<li>Kenyon College</li>
<li>Oberlin College</li>
<li>Grinnell College</li>
<li>Denison University </li>
<li>Lawrence University </li>
<li>Illinois Wesleyan University </li>
<li>Beloit College </li>
<li>St. Olaf College</li>
</ol>
<p>Why limit it just to LACs in the fly-over zone? (j/k)</p>
<ol>
<li>Carleton College</li>
<li>Grinnell College</li>
<li>Oberlin College</li>
<li>Macalester College</li>
<li>Kenyon College</li>
<li>St. Olaf College </li>
<li>Beloit College</li>
<li>Knox College</li>
<li>Lawrence University</li>
<li>Denison University</li>
<li>Illinois Wesleyan University</li>
</ol>
<p>Carleton? What about Creighton? I agree though that Knox should be on the list…</p>
<p>What about Creighton?</p>
<p>Well I think Creighton clearly deserves a Top Ten spot, unless we’re throwing out Jesuit schools.</p>
<p>I’d appreciate any information comparing the merits of Beloit College and Lawrence University. My son is interested in both, but we have not been able to visit. Thanks.</p>
<p>Can you really count Illinois Wesleyan as an LAC? It seems like a university with an LAC environment, but not a true LAC…</p>
<p>All great schools, but you asked for rankings…here’s mine:</p>
<ol>
<li>Carleton</li>
<li>Grinnell</li>
<li>Oberlin</li>
<li>Kenyon</li>
<li>Macalester</li>
<li>Denison</li>
<li>Beloit</li>
<li>Lawrence</li>
<li>St. Olaf</li>
<li>Wabash</li>
</ol>
<p>Carleton is where it’s at.</p>
<p>Illinois Wesleyan is definitely a LAC. It does have a more pre-professional feel to it, but I would not say that it is a university.</p>
<p>Concerning Creighton, I don’t think it is considered a LAC, since it gives out a good amount of master’s degrees. For the list, I would add Kalamazoo College somewhere in the top 10, but everything else I agree with.</p>
<p>I guess if you base it on acceptance into top grad schools a case could be made for
Macalester and Grinnell to be where it’s at. </p>
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<p>Creighton was ranked #1 Master University in the Midwest by either Princeton Review or U.S News. It has the benefits of an LAC with the increased opportunities for research b/c of the professional degrees.</p>
<p>Tier 1
Carleton
Grinnell
Kenyon
Macalester
Oberlin</p>
<p>Tier 2
Denison
DePauw
Lawrence
St. Olaf
Wheaton</p>
<p>Tier 3
Beloit
Cornell College
Earlham
Hope
Illinois Wesleyan
Kalamazoo
Knox
Wabash
Wooster</p>
<p>Of course, others would probably switch some around between tiers 2 and 3. The Midwest is full of great LACs! :D</p>
<p>Oooh, I forgot about DePauw. Also, I like the tier grouping system better… wish I had thought to do that…</p>
<p>Doing it by tiers</p>
<p>Tier 1
Carleton College
Macalester College
Kenyon College
Oberlin College
Grinnell College</p>
<p>Tier 2
Denison University
Lawrence University
Illinois Wesleyan University
Beloit College
St. Olaf College</p>
<p>Tier 3
Knox College
Kalamazoo College
Ohio Wesleyan University
Earlham College
Wittenberg University</p>
<p>Country Day appears right on with the tiers.</p>
<p>I like the tier system too. I wish USNWR would eliminate the silly rankings and just use tiers as well: Top 10, Top 30, Top 50, Top 100 and all the rest. The guys on the boarders could fight it out but it would save all of us a lot of nitpicking on CC about whether something is really #1 or #5. Who cares? The current ranking system implies that there really is a difference between a school that got ranked #14 and #15. There isn’t.</p>
<p>Right on M. Chasing a school because of some arbitrary ranking will lead to transferring!</p>