<p>Hello, I'm starting to look at colleges. What schools are similar to these academically and socially? Thank you.</p>
<p>Hard to answer because Wesleyan and Amherst are somewhat different socially (though quite similar academically). </p>
<p>In the same general social personality as Amherst: Williams, Middlebury, Bowdoin, Hamilton, Kenyon, Davidson.</p>
<p>As Wesleyan: Swarthmore, Bates, Vassar, Oberlin</p>
<p>Each has nuances of personality and environment, but all are excellent academically.</p>
<p>There are over 200 small liberal arts colleges in America.
They are all similar at least with respect to size and academic offerings in the traditional liberal arts (biology, chemistry, econ, english, history, math, psychology, etc.)</p>
<p>Amherst and Wesleyan are among the most selective of these schools. However, I’d say about 40 or more LACs have significant overlap with Amherst & Wesleyan in the caliber of students they admit and in the quality of at least some academic programs. Kenyon’s English department, for example, is equal to or stronger than what you’d find at just about any other LAC, even though Kenyon doesn’t rank as high as Amherst or Wesleyan in the overall US News ranking.</p>
<p>So you may need to be a bit more specific about what you’re trying to match.
What social similarities do you mean? Both Amherst and Wesleyan enroll many very affluent students, but also award generous financial aid to many lower- and middle-income students. Many other selective LACs (probably most of the US News top ~40 or more) have a similar demographic profile.</p>
<p>Schools similar to Amherst-Williams, Bowdoin, Holy Cross, Davidson, For Wesleyan-Brandeis, Bates, Oberlin,Grinnell.</p>
<p>Well, if you like their academics and the way they handle the balance of academics and athletics, you could just look at the rest of the NESCAC schools, all of which are of similar size and quality of academics, with special restrictive rules that maintain the “Scholar” part of “scholar/athlete.” But, as previous posters noted, Amherst and Wesleyan are pretty dissimilar to each other within the NESCAC group – why are these two your existing picks? Which one do you actually identify with, in terms of campus culture?</p>