<p>Hi everyone!
I was wondering if anyone knows of any schools similar to Boston College, Northeastern University or Villanova (close to a city and LAC). But regarding Boston College and Villanova could the colleges possibly be less religious. Also these colleges are hard to get in, I was looking for something easier. I've been looking but I can't find any colleges that compare. Do you have any opinions?</p>
<p>I wouldn’t characterize any of those schools as a LAC…</p>
<p>If you’re willing to go West, there are a few possibilities: University of Puget Sound is a 2,500 person LAC, awards merit aid to the overwhelming majority of enrolled students, and is in a Seattle suburb. </p>
<p>Lewis & Clark College accepts about 60% of students and is the “hipster” LAC of the PNW small colleges. </p>
<p>University of San Diego is larger than a liberal arts college, but smaller than the other schools on your list. It accepts slightly less than half of all applicants, but I’m not sure what the aid situation is. </p>
<p>University of Denver is a medium sized school (but still smaller than BC and NEU), and if you have the stats to be competitive for BC, should give you quite a bit of merit aid. Denver is a cool city from what I’ve heard.</p>
<p>Santa Clara University is another medium sized school, located in the heart of Silicon Valley. It has a high list price, but gives merit to about half of its enrolled students.</p>
<p>Oglethorpe University is in the Atlanta suburbs. I’m not sure how strong its academics are, but it should be an easy admit for you.</p>
<p>I’m not as familiar with schools in the Midwest or East Coast, but I believe Rhodes College might also fit your criteria.</p>
<p>Other LACs in or near cities:</p>
<p>Agnes Scott (Atlanta) <strong>if female</strong>
Austin (Austin)
Birmingham-Southern (Birmingham)
Eugene Lang (NYC)
Colorado College (Colorado Springs)
Goucher (Baltimore)
Macalester (Twin Cities)
Occidental (Los Angeles)
Simmons (Boston) <strong>if female</strong>
Trinity (San Antonio)
Wagner (NYC)</p>
<p>Larger options:</p>
<p>American (DC)
Butler (Indianapolis)
Case Western (Cleveland)
Drexel (Philly)
Emerson (Boston)
Fordham (NYC)
GWU (DC)
LMU (Los Angeles)
Seattle U (Seattle)
SMU (Dallas)
St. Louis U (St. Louis)
Tulane (New Orleans)
USF (San Francisco)</p>
<p>Some of these are relatively selective; some are less so. It’s by no means a comprehensive list.</p>
<p>NEU is pretty different from the other two. NEU is big and right in the city, the other two are smaller and are near a city. So what exactly are your criteria?</p>
<p>USC Emory ? lol iono</p>
<p>none of the three are even close to LAC-like. 'Nova is probably the least competitive of the three for admissions. What specifically are you seeking? An urban campus (such as Northeastern)? A campus nearby the city limits (ala BC)? Programs/majors?</p>
<p>Sorry I wasn’t clear, I’m looking for a small to med. school near a city. I like Villanova because it has it’s own campus, sports, and a normal college experience but its near philly. The same goes for BC, except with less emphasis on sports, still kind of small, and near Boston. I chose NEU because it’s in the city, but that may be a stretch from the other two colleges.</p>
<p>Boston University
NYU
GW
USC
American
Barnard
University of Maryland, College Park (just a metro ride from DC)
Miami
Pitt
Tulane</p>
<p>Are you looking to be close to ANY city or just the major ones? If it is the latter use CollegeBoard’s search tool or College Navigator and put in the zip code of the city and a distance, size of school, selectivity etc. and just scroll through the results.
You didn’t specify your qualifications exactly, but there are a many others in suburban Boston such as Tufts, Brandeis, Regis, Curry, Gordon (religious - Christian), Endicott, Bentley, Babson, Wellesley…
Endicott is right on the ocean north of Boston, really beautiful campus.</p>
<p>might look at Holy Cross-run by liberal Jesuits. HC seeks students of all faiths or no faith.</p>
<p>If he can’t get into Northeastern, he has no chance at getting into Holy Cross. </p>
<p>Northeastern is fairly easy to gain admission to. If you aren’t up to their standards forget Tulane, etc. I suggest you get a copy of a college guide and read through it. U.S. News will break down colleges by state. </p>
<p>Consider why Northeastern is on your list. It is nothing like Boston College or Villanova. If you are looking for comparable schools to Northeastern they will be very different than comparable schools to the other two. Similar schools to Northeastern are Drexel, Temple, George Washington (but much more selective the NEU), etc. </p>
<p>If you are more interested in the the other two, you have many less-selective but good options. Fordham, Marquette, Loyola Maryland, Saint Louis University, Catholic University, Ursinus, and many, many more.</p>
<p>Just to be clear here here is the 25%/75% for SAT scores and acceptance rates at schools being thrown around. I think you are underestimating how difficult Northeastern is to get accepted compared to some of these other schools.</p>
<p>Math:
Villanova: 620/710
Northeastern 650/740
Boston College 640/730
GW 610/700
Drexel 570/680
Boston University 600/700
Tulane 620/700
Temple 510/610</p>
<p>CR
Villanova: 590/680
Northeastern 630/720
Boston College 620/710
GW 600/690
Drexel 530/630
Boston University 580/670
Tulane 620/710
Temple 500/600</p>
<p>Acceptance Rates:
Villanova 44%
Northeastern 34%
Boston College 28%
GW 32%
Drexel 58%
Boston University 58%
Tulane 25%
Temple 63%</p>
<p>Northeastern is one of those schools that has gotten really hot in the past couple of years, so acceptance rate has gone down!</p>
<p>Northeastern is not “easy” to gain admission to anymore.</p>
<p>You may want to check out this interactive map:
[Who</a> Does Your College Think Its Peers Are? - Administration - The Chronicle of Higher Education](<a href=“http://chronicle.com/article/Peers-Interactive-Data/134262/]Who”>Who Does Your College Think Its Peers Are?)</p>
<p>It show the schools each college considers as their peers. I think it’s a good starting place if you already have a few schools you are interested in. Taking a look at their peer schools (or who they consider to be their peers) can possibly help direct your college search to similar schools.</p>
<p>Northeastern has relatively comparable selectivity to Holy Cross, if not somewhat more selective.</p>
<p>swimchris is inflating Northeastern’s SAT numbers though. I’m pretty sure their SAT scores have never been higher than BC’s.</p>
<p>Princeton Review rates the Admissions Selectivity at Holy Cross and Northeastern the same (96).</p>
<p>statistically, BC, NEU and Tulane’s test scores are a tie. (There is no statistical difference between a 610 and 620.)</p>
<p>But yes, the swimchris’ numbers for NEU are slightly higher than what is posted on IPEDS, the national db:</p>
<p>NEU </p>
<p>CR - 610-700
M - 640-730
W - 600-700</p>
<p>BC</p>
<p>CR - 620-710
M - 640-720
W - 630-730</p>
<p>(BC wins the W portion by one more correct bubble, on average.)</p>
<p>Varying levels of difficulty in admissions…</p>
<p>American Univ
University of Miami (FL)
Case-Western
Carnegie-Mellon
DePaul</p>
<p>Given your description, I’d lean towards Miami and American.</p>
<p>Sorry I should have provided the source.</p>
<p>[Academic</a> Profile | Admissions](<a href=“http://www.northeastern.edu/admissions/apply/profile.html]Academic”>http://www.northeastern.edu/admissions/apply/profile.html)</p>
<p>CR: 630/720
M: 650/740
W 610/670
ACT 29/32</p>