<p>CollCouns is right that these midwestern LACs are not on block schedule - however, so few schools are that in order to have a reasonable list of ‘reach/match/safety’ you are probably going to have to include schools that aren’t on a block schedule, hence my suggestions. </p>
<p>One ‘non-traditional’ aspect of Grinnell is the lack of a core curriculum (like Brown in that respect). The only required class is a writing-intensive freshman seminar in any one of 20+ topics.</p>