<p>I am looking for a college with the liberal arts college class size and connection with professors. But I also like the sports, resources, and spirit of the bigger universities. Is there a mid size/ small school that has all of these things like Wake Forest maybe? Thanks for any suggestions. Also, I have a 3.9 GPA unweighted, 2200 SAT, and 33 ACT.</p>
<p>look at LACs with consortia: Claremont Colleges, 5-college consortium, Tri-college consortium, Barnard+Columbia</p>
<p>Some universities: Rice, U’Chicago, Dartmouth. Yale has a very “liberal arts” style residential experience due to the residential colleges, and its average class size is pretty much the same size if not smaller.</p>
<p>Oxford College of Emory is a LAC affiliated with the medium sized Emory University.</p>
<p>You can also look into Duke, Stanford, Vanderbilt, Georgetown, Notre Dame</p>
<p>The OP was looking for a school with features of a LAC and larger university. I suggested Oxford because it’s both of those things. As Oxford’s former mascot I’m the first to admit that virtually none of its spirit derives from sports although IMO that should be a secondary consideration in the college search process (fwiw, I now attend one of the Princeton Review’s top 20 “Students Pack the Stadium” schools).</p>
<p>He didn’t say large, just “bigger” than LACs. Which is still pretty vague 
OP should probably provide more data to narrow it down. How many sports? How does OP define “spirit”?
There are many schools that are somewhere between a small LAC and “bigger” university. OP could use a college search engine to limit student population and put in other criteria to refine it…
Tufts, Brandeis, U.Rochester, CMU are just a few but I don’t know if they really meet the criteria.</p>
<p>Holy Cross, Bucknell, Colgate.</p>
<p>Maybe Rice? It’s a medium sized research school, but has residential colleges that break it up into smaller chunks. It’s larger than LACs. It’s a D1 school, so sports could be big. The endowment per student is also quite large.</p>
<p>An alternative is to attend a LAC that’s in a big city with professional teams.</p>
<p>LACs with convenient cross registration agreements with big universities may give the academic advantages of both (small frosh/soph class sizes of the LAC, broad and deep junior/senior course selection of the big university). Barnard/Columbia is probably the most convenient example.</p>
<p>But check carefully to see if the cross registration is convenient, in terms of commuting distance, academic calendar, and similar issues.</p>
<p>As a safety perhaps Villanova or Lehigh.</p>