Results & help me choose!

College Search & Selection
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I want to study English or Political Science. I love the environments of Liberal Arts colleges, and have visited a lot on my list, though I do not remember the visits super well. I want to go to law school, so I want a scholarships might be nice to cut down cost (I didn’t apply for financial aid). I wondered if anyone has thoughts/opinions on these options. Also, do any of them deflate grades? (thinking about law school)

Scripps College with a 15k/yr
UT Austin-Plan II
Smith
Macalester with 16k/yr
Grinnell with 20k/yr
Kenyon with 10k/yr
Occidental with 12.5k/yr
Bryn Mawr with 25k/yr
Mount Holyoke as a 21st Century Scholar (25k/yr)

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Also Emory University
And Oxford of Emory University with 15k/yr

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Re-list each school by what it will cost you, not what the award is. Then look at it again

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I applied to Occidental and Grinnell and ended up choosing Oxy. Both are excellent schools with their own strong points. Want to DM me?

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All excellent colleges.

Re-list by cost of attendance. (Including travel to and fro.)

Drop the (signficantly) most expensive.

Identify key features you care about and rank the remainder accordingly. (Co-ed vs. single sex will be one factor, distance another, size another… .)

It’ll become clear.

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How much are you saving at UT Austin, assuming you’re in-state? About $40,000 over MHC? I’d go with UT Austin if you don’t have anything set aside for law school, and law is a priority for you.

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All of these schools will prepare you well for law school. In my opinion, Smith and Emory aren’t worth the extra money over the other LACs. But an LAC experience over a large university might be worth the money if that’s really what you would like (and if money isn’t a major concern).

Some things to think about: weather (Scripps, Oxy, Emory/Oxford and of course UT will be warm; Macalester will be freezing; the rest will be somewhere in between) and location (Macalester, Oxy, Emory and UT are in major urban areas; Scripps and Bryn Mawr aren’t far from cities; Smith is in a cool college town; Kenyon, Grinnell and MHC are pretty rural).

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Congrats. That is a really good list. You’re spoiled for choices.

If you don’t mind being in a women’s only college, Scripps has the benefit of the Claremont consortium (cross register classes), not to mention SoCal location.

UT-Plan II is special. If you’re in state for UT then it’s hard to pay a lot more for anywhere else.