<p>I am not someone who is obsessed with the idea of going to an Ivy League. I just want to know what are a few schools that you feel are some of the top schools that aren't Ivy League. I don't really care for a sporty school. I care more for the strong academics but if it has both that's great! </p>
<p>I'm from Maryland and you can suggest either in state or out of state colleges. If there's another forum relating to this you can just give me the link to that! </p>
<p>You’re very lucky in that you have University of Maryland College Park. </p>
<p>It’s excellent for certain fields, especially STEM (Engineering, Computer Science, Math, and Physics are particular strong points) and pretty good at everything else. It’s also a good deal for in state students - <a href=“http://www.admissions.umd.edu/costs/”>http://www.admissions.umd.edu/costs/</a>.</p>
<p>I live in Maryland too and many students at my school just end up going to College Park because it’s cheap and good. Some people even turned down Duke/Brown/Cornell/Hopkins for it.</p>
<p>It would be a lot easier to make suggestions if you told us your stats, preferred major, any preference on size, and financial situation. Also, are you male or female? There are dozens of very good schools that aren’t Ivies. It is hard to make suggestions without more information, though.</p>
<p>I’m female and I haven’t taken the SAT or ACT yet but my GPA is at 3.8. I don’t mind going to a large college and I’m willing to take suggestions from private schools although state tuition is nice. </p>
<p>Hard to say until you have test scores. Consider test optional schools.</p>
<p>The mid-Atlantic region (DC, MD, DE, PA, NJ, NY) is home to many respected schools. In addition to half of the Ivies (UPenn, Princeton, Columbia, Cornell), others in the US News top ~75 universities or LACs include:</p>
<p>universities
Johns Hopkins
Georgetown
Carnegie Mellon
NYU
Lehigh
Penn State (public)
George Washington
Fordham
Syracuse
University of MD - CP (public)
Pittsburgh (public)
Rutgers (public)
American U.</p>
<p>LACs
Swarthmore
Haverford
Vassar
Colgate
Hamilton
Barnard (women)
Bryn Mawr (women)
Lafayette
Dickinson
Franklin & Marshall
Skidmore
Union
Bard
Gettysburg</p>
<p>Listed approximately in USNWR rank order; more selective schools are near the top.</p>
<p>You may also want to consider St Mary’s College, a public LAC in MD.</p>
<p>Thanks! I just wanted a list to research schools! </p>