My kid has fallen in love with HWS and it does have a lot to recommend it. She especially loves their learning communities. I’d love to be looking at some schools that have a similar vibe. We are located in Cincinnati but she is looking all over the Midwest, East Coast and South. I’ve gotten some great suggestions for her already but I thought I’d give it one last go before applications are due.
St. Lawrence, Dickinson.
Agree with Dickinson and St. Lawrence. Perhaps Union, Franklin and Marshall, Denison?
I agree with all those suggested above, and would add Wheaton (MA) and Rollins.
Wooster? About the same size & test score middle 50. Really good FA! And there’s the IS experience.May be a bit more rural, but the campus & main downtown are lovely.
I also second F & M… DS has applied there. He really liked the campus.
All of those, at least to my mind, have a much jockier, less arty culture than Hobart - William Smith.
Maybe I have HWS wrong. I know what it looks like, and I know several relatively ancient alums, but I think I only know one kid who has gone there in the past decade. She loved it, and felt in the mainstream there, but maybe she wasn’t, really. Anyway, she was an arty kid. Based on what I know, she would not have felt as comfortable at Dickinson, Union, or Rollins. My feeling about St. Lawrence or F&M or Wheaton is not as clear.
College of Wooster a bit more rural? It’s hard to get a lot more rural than HWS, unless you are Deep Springs. It’s sitting on a lake shore with a tiny town to the north and vineyards to the south.
Son 2 has HWS on his original list also and Colby. I would vote for Dennison for the Midwest and for a safety Lake Forest.
St. Lawrence, Union, Bucknell, Franklin and Marshall, Dickinson, Gettysburg, Muhlenberg, SUNY Geneseo, SUNY New Paltz.
I went to St. Lawrence and had lots of friends at Hobart, they were very similar. Denison is also very similar, it was my other top choice school and I had a hard time picking because they were so much alike. The only thing that made up my mind was that SLU was 6 hours closer to home.
I did not look at Lake Forest but I visited my friend there and also had the same vibe but nice to be so close to a real city!
Oops yes, to St. Lawrence - should have had that on “my” suggested comment.