<p>Your opinions!
Out of the following, and why it would be your favorite (you can do 1st 2nd and 3rd choices if you'd like)</p>
<p>-Boston College
-Amherst College
-Hamilton College
-Washington University in St. Louis
-NYU
-Cornell
-Notre Dame
-Dartmouth
-University of Richmond
-Villanova University
-Lehigh
-Bucknell
-University of Pennsylvania</p>
<p>I haven’t visited any of these yet, but on paper this would be my list for good colleges for me:</p>
<p>1) Dartmouth: Fantastic academics, very friendly students, great social scene, beautiful campus, great size in terms of faculty accessibility and small classes, high quality of life, etc. Only downsides (to me, which may be advantages to others of course) are location, conservative edge, and the D-Plan/sophomore summer (though I’m not sure in practice whether this would be an advantage or disadvantage…this is all just speculation). </p>
<p>2) Amherst College: Incredible academics (great professors and unparalleled classroom experience), outstanding reputation and job recruitment, small size could be a plus or a minus (though I would assume mostly a plus?), beautiful campus, great diversity, many things to do on campus. Politically involved and known to be quite liberal—both plusses for me! Downsides would again be location, maybe the party scene (not sure though, don’t know too much about it but it seems like there are hundreds of alternatives), the coooooold winters.</p>
<p>3) Boston College: I honestly don’t know many downsides to BC at all, aside from maybe the SLIGHT conservative edge because of its Jesuit roots (though not really a problem at all I’m sure)… fantastic location, great school spirit/social scene, good academics and reputation… definitely applying!</p>
<p>All the schools you listed are great schools, albeit quite different from one another (especially like… NYU and Bucknell), but these are my top 3 probably! :)</p>
<p>My favorites: Dartmouth, Amherst, Boston College, Notre Dame, Bucknell</p>
<p>Boston College…great location, great sports, excellent academics. I graduated from there.
-Amherst College…can get as good an education here as anywhere in the world. Not much else, though.
-Hamilton College…too cold and too many drugs
-Washington University in St. Louis…spend the rest of your life explaining that you didn’t go to college in Seattle or D.C.
-NYU…fine if you love concrete and drug addicts.
-Cornell…work hard, work hard. too cold
-Notre Dame, beautiful campus, great academics. still lots of anti-Catholicism in the US
-Dartmouth…perfect except for the quarter system
-University of Richmond…not sure if it’s worth the money.
-Villanova University…Boston College Lite
-Lehigh too many frats
-Bucknell …Dartmouth Lite
-University of Pennsylvania …too urban, too politically correct</p>
<p>how is penn more politically correct than any other ivies? didn’t dartmouth change their mascot a few years back for the sake of political correctness?</p>
<p>eh none of those prestigious schools would really interest me, but I’d take BC or Dartmouth over any of the others</p>
<p>Hmm post order problem, it’s very weird that ChoklitRain’s post is marked as being at 9:43 when it’s only 9:37 right now…</p>
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<li><p>Washington University in St. Louis Bears - my dream school, great academics, gorgeous campus, good location, I know lots of people there, good social scene</p></li>
<li><p>Amherst College Lord Jeffs - beautiful campus, best LAC out there, I generally like smaller schools </p></li>
<li><p>University of Pennsylvania Quakers - I would get to wrestle there</p></li>
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<p>Yeah Dartmouth was 92% Obama this election. Its hardly conservative. </p>
<p>Anyway:
Dartmouth then Amherst.</p>
<p>so everyone likes dartmouth, amherst, then bc i see</p>
<p>All of those schools are excellent. Amherst, BC, Cornell and Penn would be my top 4.</p>
<p>I love the Amherst area…perfect college town experience.</p>
<p>Ny0rker. if you’re looking for help in choosing, there are big variations among those schools on your list. You didn’t state any of your selection criteria. That would help us voice our opinions.</p>
<p>For me it would be Amherst, and then Wash U. But I’m a big “quirky LAC” type; the only one of these schools that even almost made my list was Amherst. They are all good schools, though; it just depends on what you are looking for.</p>
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<p>I don’t get it. Hanover is colder than Ithaca, and are you suggesting that Dartmouth students don’t work hard?</p>
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<li>Amherst College</li>
<li>University of Notre Dame</li>
<li>University of Pennsylvania</li>
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<ol>
<li>penn(wharton)</li>
<li>darthmouth</li>
<li>amherst</li>
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<p>and i wouldn’t apply to the others on the list</p>
<p>-Amherst - I wanted to apply when I was in high school, but I knew I couldn’t afford it. The academics are incredible, yet it’s a small LAC in a ‘perfect little college town’ in the Northeast. Lots of individual attention from professors, opportunities to do research with professors and take some awesome classes through the 5-college consortium, too.</p>
<p>-Dartmouth - Again, a school I wanted to attend, this time as an exchange student (my college had a domestic exchange program with Dartmouth, but I didn’t get my act together in time to go). Small liberal arts college in the middle of nowhere. Normally, I’m a city girl, but I’ve always been curious about how fun it would be to go to a college where everyone does cool stuff on campus because there’s nowhere to go outside of campus. Also, similar things with the amazing professors and ability to do research. And also the name. I didn’t really concentrate on prestige the first time around; I think if I had to apply all over again I definitely would concentrate more on prestige and resources.</p>
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<li>- between WUSTL and Notre Dame. I’ve heard St. Louis is a really cool city, and Washington has just an amazing set of major fields of study and professors and a really great reputation. But Notre Dame has all of those things AND it’s a big football school – one thing I felt I missed out on was big football!</li>
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<li>Dartmouth <em>I EDed and was deferred</em></li>
<li>Amherst
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<li>UPenn</li>
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<p>Wow, that’s a really varied list. I’d choose NYU. I want to be in an urban environment, and NYU is the epitome of urban! Also, has some interesting programs (Gallatin).</p>
<p>what makes it a very varied list?</p>
<p>if anyone could like group them in similar ways</p>
<p>thankssss</p>