Museum Studies at Midwest LACs

College Search & Selection
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<p>My senior son is about ready to start hitting the "send" button on his college applications and before we do I wanted to make sure we weren't missing any possible good fit schools for him. Here are the details:</p>

<p>He wants to study anthropology/history/religious studies at an LAC with a career path in museum studies. He prefers schools in the midwest.</p>

<p>He is a 3.0 student with a 24 ACT. Both GPA and ACT pulled down by poor math scores (ACT = 16). Good ECs, but nothing unique.</p>

<p>He plans to apply to: Beloit, Earlham, Kalamazoo, Cornell (Iowa),Wooster, Knox, Albion, and Alma. Beloit and Earlham have museum studies minors. The others have tailorable majors.</p>

<p>He isn't interested in, nor would he thrive, at a large school. So our in state schools; U of Michigan, Michigan State, Grand Valley, etc., are not options. </p>

<p>I'm aware of OOS schools with well regarded museum studies majors such as Baylor and Iowa, but these would be too large for him.</p>

<p>Also we're realistic in that he likely won't have the grades/scores for schools such as Carleton, Oberlin, Kenyon, Reed, Macalester, etc., </p>

<p>We've saved enough to cover about $20,000 out of pocket for his tuition per year. Our EFC is estimated at $4,000 (we'll have two sons in college, twins). The tuition calculators I've used at some of the colleges he's applying to estimate that our net cost will be below the $20,000/year we've set aside. </p>

<p>Are there any schools that fit the above criteria that we may be overlooking?</p>

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<p>Ripon College is similar to some of the others on your list. It offers both Anthropology and History. On the website each major lists it’s unique features.</p>

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<p>Thanks for the response. We’ll take a look at Ripon.</p>

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<p>What about Columbia College in Chicago? They have a big arts program–might be worth a look. Not sure if he wants to be in the city though.</p>

<p>Maybe Hope in Michigan as well.</p>

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<p>Thanks. We’ll give Columbia a look. Hope is an excellent school, but like its rival Calvin College, it may be a bit too evangelical/conservative for my son.</p>

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<p>Hanover allows for make your own major, and has anthropology as well. Financial ais is good and it is Miswest with milder winters.</p>

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<p>Skip Columbia College in Chicago, not in same league as other named schools. Sleeper-candidate Ripon has excellent financial aid, and likely on par academically with Beloit and the others.</p>

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<p>Thank you to all who commented. I guess we should to take a closer look at Hanover and Ripon.</p>