<p>These are my two top choice schools right now and I was curious to know of other schools that are similar to these two, meaning:
1. Little to no core requirements
2. Strong academics
3. Liberal/accepting student body
4. Little to no emphasis on sports/greek life</p>
<p>If it means anything, I'm going to be majoring in the English-Linguistics- Psychology area as pre-law prep.</p>
<p>Thank you</p>
<p>My daughter had many of these same criteria (all of them actually). She applied to those two and also: Pomona, Carleton, Macalester, Wellesley, Barnard, Oberlin. </p>
<p>Not all of these colleges met all the criteria in all respects; for example, apparently a high proportion of Carleton students play intramural sports. Nevertheless I'd bet some of these colleges may also work for you. Wesleyan was probably similar, but she just didn't like it for some reason. Most had some distribution requirements that she found to be liberal and easy to fulfill.</p>
<p>Many colleges don't have more than a course or two in lingusitics, so you might want to check carefully on that.</p>
<p>Smith is in many ways identical to Brown, but all X chromosomes. No distributional requirements/No core. Strong academics. No Greeks. Sports only for those who want. Liberal student body. Very strong English and Comp. Lit. departments.</p>
<p>When you say "no core", I'm trying to figure out why that is important to you? Between Linguistics, English, and Psych, you would cover six of the nine typical distribution requirements. The only thing left would be three semesters of math, science, statistics, etc.</p>
<p>Is that the problem? Or is is "no core" meaningful in some other way? I know my daughter initially was attracted to Brown because of the "no core", but when she really sat down and looked at the nuts and bolts of distribution requirements, she realized that it didn't make any difference. Counting credits for AP English and AP Calc, I believe she will have wrapped up the distribution requirements at Swarthmore by the end of freshman year except for an art course she is taking in the fall. She never paid any attention to the requirements while selecting her courses.</p>
<p>Other than the "no core", Swarthmore would meet all of your requirements, including a very strong, and fairly popular, Linguistics department. All of the other suggestions look good, too -- although you will have to check on Linguistics.</p>
<p>Grinnell has no core. There are no frats (if I remember right) and athletes are definitely not glorified. The students are very liberal, and extremely smart. The academics are top. They even have a linguistics concentration. I highly suggest you check it out.</p>
<p>Pomona, Swarthmore, Wesleyan, Oberlin, Reed, Colorado College, for starters.</p>
<p>I'm very grateful for all of the responses. I'll surely give all of these colleges a look.</p>
<p>New College of Florida (<a href="http://www.ncf.edu%5B/url%5D">www.ncf.edu</a>) has no core-requirements and has a very interesting curriculum--and, similar to Reed, has no grades. Also, a very accepting student body. And they send thier students off to top graduate schools.</p>
<p>I would reccomend St. John's College (<a href="http://www.sjca.edu%5B/url%5D">www.sjca.edu</a>) because it's an awesome school, but the curriculum there is ALL-core! Hehe.</p>
<p>Anyway, I encourage you to challenge yourself. You shouldn't just neglect math courses or history courses (wherever your weakness lies) because you think you'll do poorly. It's very often the case that people do not start enjoying the things they hated in High School until they get to College. It always annoys me when people say things like, "I'll never be good at math," or "I'm just not the math-type." That's stupid-talk. </p>
<p>In any case, a college with little core-curriculum will give you the opportunity to explore all the different fields, and I encourage you to do that. Don't just study what you think you're good at. College is a place to learn.</p>