What do you mean sailing isn’t a year round sport in Northern areas?
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Add Fordham !! Or University of Reykjavik!!
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Thank you so much. This is very helpful!
I just want my S to be happy. The social atmosphere at Wake is just not right for him. How to know which school will be a better fit? Bigger? Public? Trying to avoid “cliquey” “super preppy” “country-club” “athletes or greek life” dominated social scene. He is academic and intellectual but also really loves a good party and wants to be with people who are “down to earth,” with potentially “northern values” and “chill”.
U of Reykjavik? Wow he loved Iceland. Do they teach in English!
Anyone have any thoughts on University of Edinburgh or St. Andrew’s–specifically how hard to get into as transfer and what the social scene is like.
At this point we realize we may be looking at 4+ years for him to graduate so if all credits don’t transfer we are ok with it.
Same. So many schools cut off the list because of location. Thought Winston Salem was not too small but there is just not enough going on there. Need a vibrant scene, not necessarily huge but some small venues for live music, good foodie scene, more than 2 bars that the college kids go to would be nice for starters.
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Can’t speak to University of Edinburgh.
Transferring into St. Andrews could be challenging due to the structure of academics there. Students study (read) one or two subjects only. The course sequence begins in year 1 so unless the classes your son has already taken align with the courses in the subject he would study he might have to start over in year 1 or possibly 2. As far as social life at St.Andrews there are a couple fraternities but most of the social life is student driven: house parties, pubs (drinking age is 18 and drinking is a huge part of the social life), balls, theater, societies (student clubs) etc… St. Andrews is a small town so no night clubs. Personally I love St. Andrews but attending school there is akin to attending a LAC in a non-urban setting, but the student body is much larger.
College of Charleston - and tons of northerners.
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Disagree on the clique portion of BC making it difficult to transfer as Junior. Many students, aside from those who come in with a ready friendship circle from NE prep schools, don’t find their peeps until sophomore and Junior year when class sizes are smaller. Clubs take new members from all years
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How about Macalester in St. Paul? It’s one of a few liberal arts schools that are located in a city, but the area is super quaint and residential mixed with retail and restaurants. Plus it has a great graduate school placement rate and no fraternity culture.
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Emory is big greek life, no?
He applied to UMD in HS and was not interested. UVA big greek life/southern.
He also applied to UVM and got in but chose not to go.
Would he be wiling to revisit the UVM idea?
A quick Google search puts Emory’s Greek percentage at 13%.
They don’t have a football team. Only 25% admitted are from the southeast. It’s in a very nice part of Atlanta. Urban/suburban with some green space.
We toured both Wake and Emory. S20 is at Georgia Tech and visits Emory. Both are pretty campuses with top notch students but that’s about where it ends from what I’ve seen. I lived in the SE for awhile. Emory never once struck me as a Southern school.
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Since international schools are being mentioned what about McGill in Montreal? Love Montreal.
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That is exactly how I would describe my D’s friend group at Tulane . I don’t think Greek life is that important for the girls. Not sure how it is on the boys’ side though, I do hear a lot about frat parties…
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Agree - Macalester would be a great antidote to Wake.
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