<p>All three were suggeted as academic "match" schools, but I'm not sure about the social fit. Would a NYC hipster girl find other like-minded students at any or all three schools? Or is one (or more) of the schools likely to be too conservative socially?</p>
<p>Thanks.</p>
<p>Statistically, Wheaton and Dickinson are slightly stronger than Muhlenberg. I don’t know much about Muhlenberg socially, but based on my visits to Wheaton and Dickinson, Dickinson seems cliquish and high school-ish. I think you’d probably be happier at Wheaton, although like most liberal arts colleges, it’s in a really small town and would be a lot different from NYC.</p>
<p>I would not think of Wheaton as being a “hipster” school at all, and certainly not Dickinson.</p>
<p>Based on my impressions from my visit at Wheaton as well as of the students who come up our way (Mount Holyoke) for sports events or parties, it reminds me of the Hollister-wearing, perennially flip-flopped elements I avoided growing up. 
I’m not knocking it; I just would never think of “hipster” as a way of describing them.</p>
<p>Maybe Muhlenberg would be a better fit than either of those two?</p>
<p>Hey, what’s a MoHo doing on the Wheaton board?!?</p>
<p>I agree, none of the three is a hipster school; still, I hoped that at least one might have a critical mass of hipster students (D doesn’t need or necessarily want to be in the majority, but she doesn’t want to be on the fringe by herself).</p>
<p>I do believe we’re allowed to wander, particularly when we might know something that’s helpful. ;)</p>