<p>Best Public LAC - SUNY Geneseo</p>
<p>[SUNY</a> Geneseo | SUNY Geneseo](<a href=“http://www.geneseo.edu%5DSUNY”>http://www.geneseo.edu)</p>
<p>This is a wonderful college with top academics, bright students, talented professors, engaged alumni!!!</p>
<p>Since there is no one school that fits everyone, here are some lists of schools “off the beaten path”:</p>
<p>LAC fans may find some of the following (even out-of-state) to be less expensive alternatives to the usually expensive private LACs:</p>
<p>[COPLAC</a> | Council of Public Liberal Arts Colleges](<a href=“http://www.coplac.org/students/admissions.php]COPLAC”>http://www.coplac.org/students/admissions.php)</p>
<p>Families who will not qualify for financial aid but balk at $50,000 to $60,000 per year costs of attendance may want to see the following list:</p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/parents-forum/1294383-less-expensive-list-price-less-obvious-schools-attract-good-students.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/parents-forum/1294383-less-expensive-list-price-less-obvious-schools-attract-good-students.html</a></p>
<p>Students with good stats looking for low cost safeties may want to look here:</p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/financial-aid-scholarships/1348012-automatic-full-tuition-full-ride-scholarships.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/financial-aid-scholarships/1348012-automatic-full-tuition-full-ride-scholarships.html</a></p>
<p>Loyola Marymount! Because my kid is there! But seriously, what thumper said about Santa Clara, but in SoCal, and with more urms. I know that’s not on everybody’s list of must haves, but if it is, and you want to be “west”, check it out.</p>
<p>I can name several but I will throw out a couple–great thread idea–it’s a nice way to get some people information about more regional schools that are fantastic opportunities.</p>
<p>University of Minnesota-Morris–wonderful school, very well regarded with major employers in the region, several cooperative agreements with the U of MN Twin Cities for post-UG work, etc. OOS tuition is VERY reasonable.</p>
<p>Seton Hill–Greensburg, PA–nice up and coming school, beautiful campus, stats keep climbing each year, auto-admit Med School program with the option to complete UG and med-school in 7 years. Generous automatic merit aid for 3.5 ish kids and especially nice for high test score/lower GPA kids since the merit aid is parceled by GPA or test scores or both. Great OOS options with small regional airport in town serviced by Sprint Airlines–so reasonable cost on flights very possible.</p>
<p>Marquette doesn’t get a lot of CC love, but I know extraordinarily bright people who have gone there and done well. My current star at work is a Marquette grad.</p>
<p>Perhaps this college doesn’t belong here, but it does get play, but I’ll say Barnard.</p>
<p>Barnard gets bad press as a “back door to Columbia.” It even draws the ire of some Columbia students. The comments on the school by Columbia kids when Obama spoke there instead of Columbia were really negative, and in many cases, very vulgar.</p>
<p>For my D Barnard was everything the brochure said. She said she wouldn’t have gone to Columbia instead if they paid her. (Teenage hyperbole. If they’d paid her, perhaps we would have insisted. LOL.)</p>
<p>If anyone is interested, I’ll answer questions via PM. I don’t want to extol its virtures, when many are known. I will that the academics are rigorous, but the support is amazing.</p>
<p>This leads me to a plug for women’s colleges. They really do empower women.</p>
<p>A couple more not-for-everyone/amazing-for-some colleges:</p>
<p>Berea College in Kentucky was the first racially integrated college in the South. It is an inclusive Christian LAC with an express mission to serve students from impoverished backgrounds, principally from Appalachia but some from other regions as well. Tuition is free for all students, and most receive additional financial aid for housing and food. Most or all students participate in work and community assistance programs that are an integral part of the school’s educational philosophy.</p>
<p>Deep Springs College is America’s most elite junior college – a two-year institution that takes 13 students per class, and whose graduates tend to complete their educations at Ivy League colleges, Stanford, the University of Chicago, and equivalent institutions. (The students accepted at Deep Springs tend to be students accepted to those colleges as freshman applicants, too.) Deep Springs is affiliated with the Telluride Association that runs a famous summer program for rising high school seniors, and residential houses at Michigan and Cornell. It is located on a ranch in the eastern California high desert, and students do extensive work on the ranch in addition to their studies. Current students also run the institution’s operations almost completely – they determine curriculum, hire faculty, handle admissions and discipline. All male for its first 95 years, it is accepting applications from both women and men for its 2013 entering class. Students are charged nothing for tuition, room and board.</p>
<p>Lawrence College in Appleton, Wisconsin is the one college I regret not looking into for my daughter. </p>
<p>Knox College, Galesburg Illinois is where she is and it is almost everything we hoped it would be. It is small, nurturing, individualized, friendly, and academically challenging. They are also more creative and flexible than many colleges.</p>
<p>Truman State University in Kirksville, Mo. More selective than the Missouri flagship. Broad variety of liberal arts programs. Focus on undergraduate education. COA (tuition+fees+room+board) $21,000 for OOS, $18,500 for Midwestern Exchange state residents.</p>