<p>Colgate
Davidson</p>
<p>Please believe posts #14 and 15, written by bclintonk and jvtdad.</p>
<p>My soon to be college freshman was accepted at 7 colleges, Wake Forest being one of them. S has great stats. 4.0 unweighted GPA, 4.62 weighted, top 5% of class, 35 ACT, 2250 SAT, very involved in music and sports. Several leadership positions, good amount of community service. Wake offered a very small amount of loan/workstudy/scholarship aid. In the end, Wake was the most expensive of his choices.</p>
<p>Colgate maybe too small for OP and it is very fratty. It doesn’t have a business major because it is a LAC, but many graduates do go into business (WS). It has a good geology department - Texas oil. Students tend to be quite fit, play some sort of sports, and preppy.</p>
<p>University of Rochester</p>
<p>Just check to see that you are allowed to “stack” merit and need based awards. At many schools, a merit award will reduce your financial need by that amount.</p>
<p>Loyola University, S. California, if you have Georgetown and Santa Clara, Catholic schools, on the list</p>
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<p>I’d add Wesleyan to the mix. Unlike some of the universities on your list that feel like LACs, it’s almost the opposite: a LAC with some of the feel of a university (including its name.) It has a great Math and Economics combination major; has ~3200 students (if you include grads) and purports to meet 100% need (though, mileage may vary.)</p>
<p>All the members of the University Athletic Assocation are in urban areas. Some such as Rochester and Wash U have already been mentioned.</p>
<p>From original list, I would not put Bucknell in an “urban category.”</p>
<p>MizzBee - The reason Northwestern isn’t on the list is because S has a major dislike for their football and basketball teams. Go figure.</p>
<p>Bluejay - Yep we know Bucknell is pretty rural but the size, reputation and biz program is what keeps it on. I predict it will eventually fall off.</p>
<p>Here’s what I got from a College Board search. I entered four-year, private, urban or suburban, business majors, <50% accepted, most students have a 3.0 GPA or higher, looked at 5,000 to 10,000 students:</p>
<p>Elon
Emory
Rensselaer
U of Rochester
Carnegie Mellon
WUSTL
American
Villanova
Georgetown (no frats)
Tulane
Notre Dame (no frats)
Northwestern
Boston College (no frats)
U of Miami
George Washington (10,005 undergrads)
Baylor (12,376 undergrads)</p>
<p>Wake Forest! I know I’m going there in the fall, so I’m slightly biased, but I chose it because it was a small liberal arts school with great financial aid and strong academic programs.</p>
<p>While it does have a decent percentage of frats/sororities (about 50%), more and more students are choosing to be independent and the frats/sororities are forced to mingle with the other students (they don’t get their own houses, etc.) and nobody makes you feel like you need to join AT ALL. I know I’m staying independent :)</p>
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<p>No, of course not. I thought I made it pretty clear in my earlier post that with schools like this that don’t meet 100% of need, the best you can do is apply and see what FA is offered. I am glad to hear you’re also looking at your in-state public flagship. You might also look at some LACs because more of them meet 100% of need. And you might also consider some of the lower-COA OOS publics. The University of Minnesota, for example, has an excellent business school, and its OOS COA runs about $20K to $25K less than many privates; think of that as the equivalent of a $20-25K merit award right off the top. I believe the SUNYs are even cheaper.</p>
<p>Butler…it’s a hairs breath under 5,000 but generally fits your criteria.</p>
<p>Butler does not do well in the need-based financial aid department for even top people if the last few years have been an indication. They always state that they do not meet 100% of need. It is a shame, since the school is great. Bradley in Illinois is very similar and gives full tuition to NMF.</p>
<p>Babson College near Boston. Small college, great FA.</p>
<p>Duke’s rep may be too fratty, but Duke’s FA was generous to our happy non-frat recent Duke grad.</p>
<p>Lehigh University. Could be too fratty but if you are looking at Bucknell, then Lehigh should be in the mix…</p>
<p>Georgetown doesn’t have frats recognized by the University, but it does have frats and plenty of drinking outside frats too.</p>
<p>Emory has high frat/sorority penetration (1/3), but that scene doesn’t really dominate the social scene by any means like I hear it does at schools w/similar or higher penetration. That may have to do w/the fact that the school is more academically oriented b/c of the lack of D-1 sports. The role of various cultural and academic organizations seems more profound here. </p>
<p>I like Wake Forest, but I find it odd. For some reason it’s much smaller than many of the top 20 privates but has a higher student-faculty ratio. However, they may have a higher proportion actually teaching undergrads. I have no idea. Also, 50%, that’s huge! I can’t imagine the impact of that plus sports. Sounds fun, but I imagine it would be far different from here (I’m guessing it is more like Duke and Vanderbilt).</p>