Don’t look at Goucher- they use to offer full tuition scholarships but now only offer up to 20k a year, so not enough.
Make sure to show demonstrated interest in Kenyon.
@tk21769 I’m considering Davidson, but it’s probably also a pretty big reach. I haven’t looked much at Richmond because I’ve heard that the school was competitive, but I just emailed someone to get a little more information on the LGBT community is there. Does College of Wooster offer enough merit?
@mountaingoats Good to know! Did you end up at either school?
I would third or fourth Muhlenberg, Mt. Holyoke, Clark and Denison for large merit possibilities. Muhlenberg and Clark both have strong theater programs. I think that your stats would qualify you for automatic merit at Temple, so I’d check it out before dismissing it out of hand. It’s large enough that you could probably find non-party peeps. It’s great that you have two in-state safety options that you like - that will reduce your stress as you move forward.
Re #17, I’m not sure what time period to which that’s referring, but c. 1980, students at schools such as St. Lawrence and Colby had higher SAT scores than those at Bowdoin. Similar patterns existed in 1960.
@merc81 sorry if I improperly included Colby in that list – my point, perhaps using imperfect examples, was the general one that the landscape has changed so much since we parents went through it, that the landmarks are unrecognizable. In my day, B+ students went to Bowdoin/Middlebury so – for parents trying to figure this out for their kids now – the idea that your high-achieving kid might find themselves at Denison, or Dickinson etc, is almost incomprehensible.
@Midwestmomofboys : Your greater point certainly serves the topic here. Should you happen to have an interest in historical collegiate trends, however, you can find some information through a Tufts thread (search for “1960”). Among other aspects, you might find it interesting to see that the Ivy League was widely dispersed statistically at that time and that Antioch College was in the same SAT-score tier as Middlebury and Bowdoin.
@Midwestmomofboys That’s really interesting, but probably not the case in my situation. My parents didn’t go to college here, so they have no predisposed notions regarding any particular school. They’re not prestige-obsessed; it’s just that they don’t really have the time to gauge a school’s academic quality (and I don’t really know how to go about doing that), so they’ve relied on US News. They don’t regard rankings as the be-all end-all of college quality, but they’re a factor.
Denison gives generous merit aid and has some good momentum in almost every initiative it has undertaken. Not the school it was even 10 years ago. If you’re looking for merit aid and fit, consider Earlham. It may not make it past your parents prestige screen, but it is an excellent school, great social justice related programs (sociology + context), and LGBT friendly. Pretty sure the answer to aid at Wooster is yes.