<p>Try U of Chicago. If your son is smart he will fit in there.</p>
<p>Case-Western and RIT aren't that hard to get into but are both in places with lousy weather.</p>
<p>one that i havent seen mentioned is
Clarkson University.
Its about 3-4 hours north of RPI and about 4-5 north of RIT. Its a small school, but very nerdy. Most kids are engineering, science, or business majors. About 75% guys and that is probably on the low side. I love it here.
Great school, just doesn't get a lot of applicants so it has a pretty high acceptance rating. But businesses love our graduates. 99% get jobs right out of college.</p>
<p>Georgia Tech.</p>
<p>Hi. I sound very much like your son, except that I am bad at math/sciencey things. I'm very nerdy (in an awesomely awesome way! :-P) and have lots of nerdy humor. I'm actually going to Georgia Tech next year, where nerds are definitely the norm. Almost all of the schools I applied to (10 schools) are nerdy, but not in the way your son seems to be.</p>
<p>So I read the first page and there was no mention of Georgia Tech and then read the last page and its the opposite. I add in another bote for Georgia Tech. I was thinking of applying there this year (I'm a senior now), but decided it was just too nerdy for me. So I feel like that could be a good match. And it's down south with warm weather.</p>
<p>Do RPI in Troy, New York or RIT, you can't get much nerdier than those places.
Good luck!!</p>
<p>No offense to the multiple number of friends I have at Georgia Tech, but that school is seriously the epitome of nerdiness :)</p>
<p>Here are some articles written by parents who have been where you are:</p>
<p>ASDs</a> and Choosing College Courses</p>
<p>Asperger</a> Syndrome First Year College Lessons Article</p>
<p>You say he shouldn't apply to MIT or CalTech because of the "workload." Well, he also would have difficulty getting into either of these schools due ot the fact that he has no extracurrics, a low GPA, and no APs.</p>
<p>try swarthmore</p>
<p>I'm Surprised that no one has mentioned Michigan Technological University in Houghton, MI.</p>
<p>Definitely consider Earlham. When the Earlham rep came to the college fair at our local HS, the alum from our town came to visit her with her father. The rep was fairly extroverted, but interestingly enough, the alum was very shy and introverted. Her father was a lot more talkative and he was very positive about the school. Apparently the school did not make her more extroverted, but she thrived in the Earlham environment anyway. With regard to Swarthmore, it doesn't seem that this child meets the admissions criteria.</p>
<p>Rice University
Lehigh
Imperial College (London, UK)
US Coast Guard Academy
St. John's College
Wesleyan University
William & Mary</p>
<p>Hi Jetcat</p>
<p>Try Clarkson University in NY. I know a very happy student who sounds identical to your son in interests, scores/grades, and has asperger's. He fits right in and it's small like a LAC but with more sciences, engineering, and computer science.</p>
<p>If you want (social) nerds, warm climate, technology galore that he'll enjoy, etc. that you said, he'd enjoy GaTech. The only thing I'd worry about is rigor and course requirements (it's up there w/ MIT and CalTech). He could probably get in with a 3.4 if there are some AP courses and a good SAT score (700+ Math especially).</p>
<p>Some of these colleges are way too difficult to get in with a 3.4 and limited rigor/EC's.</p>
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Rice University
Lehigh
Imperial College (London, UK)
US Coast Guard Academy
St. John's College
Wesleyan University
William & Mary
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<p>Will DEFINITELY not get in b/c of selectivity: Rice, Lehigh, Wesleyan, and W&M</p>
<p>Rice and Wesleyan are two of the harder schools to get into in the coutnry. The other two are also high selectivity.</p>
<p>And since when is St. John's and Coast Gaurd academy nerd schools? They're the exact opposite.</p>
<p>To another post: Clarkson will be too hard to get into. </p>
<p>A lot of you don't realize how selective some of these schools are. I doubt he'll be accepted to many of these "nerd" schools. "Nerd" schools are generally difficult to be admitted to b/c nerds generally do very well in school. Georgia Tech might be a good option if he can get a high SAT score. That'll cancel out his mediocre GPA.</p>
<p>How do you compare RHIT vs UIUC? for undergraduate?
since UIUC is so highly ranked in this field while RHIT might
has limited resources as a small college!!</p>
<p>boysdad, go search on the benefits vs. drawbacks of LACs. Small colleges often offer a better undergraduate education than large universities with plentiful but inaccessible resources.</p>
<p>Grinnell is a pretty nerdy school but academically quite challenging (lots and lots of work). That said, there are kids with very diverse interests on campus, there are lots of events to go to, they have amazing facilities and are very "nerd" tolerant. They are also incredibly supportive and communicative. I would suggest meeting them --there may be ways of working out a lower class load over a longer period which would allow him to graduate reasonably on time. However another nerd school which is very very good, also very friendly and welcoming, yet less demanding in terms of rigor is Beloit college in Wisconsin. It isn't far from Chicago. If you anticipate separation issues you might want to try close to home first and then transfer else?. Re Beloit though, I don't know much about Beloit's science programs. Grinnell's are AMAZING even though it is an LAC it is very strong in sciences/math (Noyce, Intel founder went there, they must be doing something...)</p>