<p>Is it harder to get into liberal art colleges than other private universities?</p>
<p>Ooohh what are other nice LACs other than S, W, and A?</p>
<p>there's a ton of good LACs, depends on what you're looking for in a college. check out the Usnews rankings for liberal arts college if you're into rankings (i'm guessing by your choice of swarthmore, williams, amherst)</p>
<p>Some liberal arts colleges are harder to get into than private universities and vice versa. It's all relative. For example, Amherst admitted 18% and the University of Rochester (a private research university) admitted 41%. However, Swarthmore admitted 17% and Columbia University admitted only 11%. You can't make general statements about the type of school and its selectivity.</p>
<p>Other good liberal arts colleges would include Bowdoin, Davidson, Middlebury, Wellesley, Pomona, Carleton, Haverford, Claremont-McKenna, Vassar, Wesleyan, Grinnel, Harvey Mudd, Washington & Lee, Colgate, etc.</p>
<p>Reed College, Oregon.</p>
<p>swarthmore, williams and amherst are all VERY difficult to get into- especially williams with how small it is. My brother was an all A student with pretty much everything going for him- near perfect SATs, he was an eagle scout, part time job, and basically every other extracurricular going for him and he got wait listed by williams and rejected from amherst. The list above is a pretty good list of LACs. I have only heard great things about vassar, middlebury, washington & lee and colgate. But again for all these schools your best bet of getting in is finding the one you LOVE and early decisioning it.</p>
<p>The candidate pools are smaller, more self-selecting, and thus, perhaps, higher quality.</p>
<p>While one might be admitted to all three of HYP, one might be rejected by all three of AWS in turn,</p>