<p>Yeah of the LACs I’ve looked at vassar is probably my second favorite after wes. Both of which require me to get my scores up a lot though</p>
<p>What I think so far:
I like Oberlin overall but it seems to be just a little too out there for me</p>
<p>Occidental seems like a good option</p>
<p>I like Pitzer and the whole college consortium but they have very odd standards for admissions which has kind of turned me off of it</p>
<p>I liked Skidmore a lot but as read on it seemed like a lot of people didn’t really enjoy their time there. Same with Bard</p>
<p>Macalester was also cool but I don’t know if I could take a minnesota winter</p>
<p>Kenyon, Grinnell, Trinity (TX), Mulhenburg, Clark, Puget Sound, Lewis & Clark, and hendrix were alright. Beloit is too, just the weather…</p>
<p>I’m not sure about the academics at hampshire but it seems like an interesting school</p>
<p>Bennington is way too small</p>
<p>Wasn’t feeling Middlebury, Denison, Franklin & Marshall</p>
<p>I’ll have to look a little bit more into Oxford at Emory to see if I like it</p>
<p>My favorites:
- Wesleyan
- Vassar
- Occidental
- Pitzer
- Oberlin (tie)</p>
<p>Reed if you really like studying.</p>
<p>I’ve heard some wild things about Reed</p>
<p>their motto is communism, atheism, and free love</p>
<p>If you can handle the winter at Wesleyan or Vassar you can handle Macalester or Beloit. Winter is winter. You dress in layers and wear boots. I have grown to prefer Midwest winters over those on the east coast because they tend to be sunnier. And we have fewer ice storms, which freak me out far more than snow.</p>
<p>I don’t think of Occidental as “hippie”. Liberal, yes. I’m thinking Pitzer sounds like what you are looking for, if you can get admitted. Or Lewis and Clark, which is a match.</p>
<p>The Johnson program at the University of Redlands might be worth a look. UR is on the larger side for a LAC, and the Johnson program attracts many alternative types. Redlands itself leans moderate liberal, although depending on where in Texas you’re from it might appear to be much more liberal than your area institutions.</p>
<p>You are dead wrong about Skidmore. People generally love it there. It is the obverse of Bard in every way. Skidmore has a very high freshman retention rate. And it had the highest increase of applications last fall of any eastern liberal arts college. </p>
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<p>What kind of cost constraints are you looking at?</p>
<p>What possible majors are you considering? (based on your AP courses, would it be correct to assume something in humanities or social studies, or perhaps music?)</p>
<p>Truman State and University of Minnesota - Morris have relatively low list prices, even for out of state students. SUNY - Geneseo and UNC - Asheville may also be worth a look in the lower list price range.</p>
<p>For any school, check the net price calculator on the school’s web site.</p>
<p>Take a look at Whitman. Music is big, and they are actively looking for more diversity on campus. It’s an academically rigorous school in a very friendly small city. Whitties are serious students but also very involved in all the extracurriculars offered by the school and the area. The theater department is great, the outdoor program is amazing, lots of people play IM sports. They offer need-based and merit aid.</p>
<p>I just read the hippie liberal part, you’d love Whitman. It’s not as far out as Reed but is definitely liberal with a Pacific Northwest laid back vibe.</p>
<p>Eckerd College may work as well. The weather is good, great study abroad and service learning projects and trips.</p>
<p>I’m interested in studying something along the lines of economics or a cultural study, maybe political science. I might go on to law school after that.</p>
<p>I’d definitely want to study abroad sometime during college.</p>
<p>I feel economics would be the safest route but my favorite classes since middle school have been social studies and history, though I am a pretty well rounded student</p>
<p>Economics is generally considered a social studies subject, although it tends to be more math-heavy than others. However, the amount of math in economics varies by school; if you want to do a PhD in economics, you want to go to an undergraduate school with a math-heavy economics department and good math and statistics departments. For all social studies subjects, a knowledge of statistics is useful.</p>
<p>Whenhen, you have a great point. “Liberal” to some may = “over the top” to others. And “moderate” to some may = “liberal” to someone from, say, certain parts of Texas. OP might want to consider the context of the suggestions when evaluating schools.</p>
<p>calla1, you make a good point. I do go to an extremely rich, conservative high school but I’d say I’m pretty liberal and I’m open to just about everything and if I’m not open to something I’ll at least give it some thought or do some research before I make an opinion. Going somewhere where people have similar opinions as mine would be nice and I think it would be cool to go somewhere with completely different people than the ones I grew up with. Usually when I go somewhere very different, like when I went to Taiwan for school, I usually find more similarities than differences with the people.</p>
<p>I will say I’m worried about one thing, sports. I do love my college football in the fall and my march madness in the spring and the occasional pick up soccer game is nice but I’m not to worried about missing a bowl game or two and I doubt anyone is going to hold me to gun point for “conforming to the mainstream sports monster”.</p>