<p>I'm a current freshman at a small all-women's liberal arts college. I'm finding that as much as I love the school, it just may not be for me. I'm from New York and I'm in the South right now, so right there was culture shock for me. I also feel like I'm not like the other girls here, but I don't want to leave the friends I have. I don't want to attend a very large university, but I'm considering schools with larger student body populations. The school boasts its many opportunities, but I feel as if I'm stuck here at school. My friends attend larger schools and I feel like they have many more opportunities than I do. The one thing that I really don't want to lose though, is the close connections I have made with my professors in my small classes (largest one was 15 last semester). </p>
<p>Are there any small schools, preferably up North (Mid-Atlantic & Northeast) that have a "big school feel" while having a small undergrad population?</p>
<p>Consider Tufts, Wesleyan, Oberlin, Connecticut College, U Chicago, Vanderbilt, Johns Hopkins, Emory, U Richmond, Furman, SUNY Genesoco, College of the Holy Cross, Clark U, Emerson College, Providence College, Lehigh, Bucknell, and St Olaf. Also some of the seven sisters schools-- Barnard/ Smith/ Wellesley/ Bryn Mawr/ Mount Holyoke have cross registration at other schools. Simmons is a women’s college in Boston.</p>
<p>Also how big is your school? 2000 students is twice as big as 1000 students. In addition, you probably aren’t going to find many larger schools (even in the liberal arts category) with class sizes consistently that small. I’ve had a great experience at Wellesley, but most of my classes have had between 20 and 30 students.</p>
<p>My school right now is under 1000 students. Part of me really enjoys that as I have a small community around me, but part of me loathes is because of the whole fact that once you see someone, they see you, and if you do anything wrong at any time, the whole school knows.</p>
<p>The size of a school certainly involves trade offs. I think you would find a 2000 to 3000 student school big enough. Another option besides transferring is becoming an exchange student at another school domestically or studying abroad.</p>