<p>I want a college bigger than my high school (about 3,000 people) but I'm constantly attracted to LACs because I enjoy the humanities more. Almost all LACs are small. What do I do?</p>
<p>Perfect colleges are Pepperdine and Stanford. They have LAC qualities with enough students for their 'campus bubble'. The problem is that acceptance is a crapshoot. Suggestions? (I am open to more selective colleges.)</p>
<p>What are your stats? And Pepperdine, while a great school, isn't a crapshoot.</p>
<p>If you like the Humanities, such as Languages, the Classics or Philosophy, major research universities such as Cal, Cornell, Havard, Indiana, Michigan, UT-Austin, Wisconsin and Yale will provide you with World-class faculties and resources but with very intimate class-size. That's because Humanities are not very popular majors at those universities.</p>
<p>What about Tufts? It has an LAC feel with about 5,000 undergrads.</p>
<p>^^^ Tufts is a good suggestion. It's one of a small number of major universities that are "tweeners" - universities in terms of structure, but LAC-like in terms of size. Others would be Rice, Dartmouth and Wake Forest. Many of the 20 or so members of the Council of Public Liberal Arts Colleges (e.g., Georgia College & State University, University of Mary Washington) are of the same variety.</p>
<p>I also suggest Rice as a LAC-ish university. And Colgate and William & Mary. You might also look at universities with honors colleges.</p>
<p>Alexandre had some good suggestions, and I'm also gonna suggest Tufts. It's bigger than most LACs, but smaller than most large universities. </p>
<p>Washington University- St. Louis (WUSTL) has ~6,600 undergrads. I'm not sure about the specifics of their humanities programs, however.</p>
<p>OP needs something less selective than Pepperdine. Most of the suggetions so far are too selective.</p>
<p>How do you know that? Pepperdine, William and Mary, Wake Forest are not that selective and for all I know can act as safeties or matches for the OP. OP didn't list stats so there's nothing wrong with selective suggestions. The most LAC-like universities in my opinion would be
Tufts
Dartmouth
William and Mary
Princeton
Stanford
Brown
Wash U in St Louis
Emory</p>
<p>Also don't just discount Liberal Arts Colleges due to your high school experiences. It's a completely different ballpark. I would at least visit an LAC to make sure it's not what you're looking for.</p>
<p>Thanks to everyone so far. I have a rigorous course load with excellent EC's IMO. My GPA, however, is a 3.8... bad freshman year because of family problems. My SAT scores are all high enough for any of these schools. My stats are CC equivalent except my GPA.</p>
<p>I'm not against high reach schools being named.
I never even thought about what Alexandre said. I'm going to look into a few of these schools.</p>
<p>marie03- A 3.8 GPA (assuming you're on a 4.0 scale) is not bad at all. I sincerely hope you don't think that. It's a good GPA.</p>
<p>Also, many colleges don't count freshman year. Can you recalculate your GPA without freshman year?</p>
<p>Tufts, Brown, Emory, Rice, William & Mary, Dartmouth come to mind immediately.</p>
<p>Brandeis? Would probably be considered an LAC-like university.</p>