College suggestions for Baitboy

[jredfly]

This is such great info - Thanks!!!

[fishbones]

There's a group of colleges out in California called the Claremont Colleges. There are 5 of them and they are often called the Ivy League of the west coast. They aren't really well known around here, but they are excellent schools. My sister was 2nd in her HS graduating class and was looking for a really good liberal arts school. She ended up deciding to go to Pomona College right outside of L.A. and loved it. It's a small school with a very low faculty to student ratio. The campus is nice and it's warm year yound. My sister didn't qualify for financial aid but she got money to go there because they were looking to get diversity and didn't have many students from the northeast.

The other schools in that group are Havey Mudd, Pitzer, Claremont McKenna and Scripps.

Depending on if he wants to be far from home or not, it may be worth checking out.

http://www.claremont.edu/

[blondterror]

One of my son's best friends also went to Pomona and he is now in Med school at Tufts. He wanted to go to Stanford but ended up loving Pomona and the smaller classes. It is a fantastic school.

[JackK]

Whatever school, just make sure tuition is within your means.

Nothing worse than graduating completely full of debt. I didn't understand the repercussions at 18. I would have been paying off student loans till my mid-40's if there hadn't been a death in the family.

While I'm appreciative of my education and the times I had, if I could do it all over again, I'd probably go to a school in state... Or at the very least take core curriculum classes at a community college to cut down on the cost.

Any AP credits?

[jredfly]

Originally Posted by JackK

Whatever school, just make sure tuition is within your means.

Nothing worse than graduating completely full of debt. I didn't understand the repercussions at 18. I would have been paying off student loans till my mid-40's if there hadn't been a death in the family.

While I'm appreciative of my education and the times I had, if I could do it all over again, I'd probably go to a school in state... Or at the very least take core curriculum classes at a community college to cut down on the cost.

Any AP credits?

He took AP World History and AP US History where he got 5 out of 5 on both exams. He is now working on 3 more for his senior year - Litrature, European History, and Statistics,

[JackK]

Anything that can reduce unnecessary course loads (which can mean graduating earlier) is worth it!

[rphud]

Claremont colleges on the left coast, NESCACs on the East coast come to mind first. Colgate too. The seven sister schools are mostly co-ed now as well. My wife works with Trinity, Wesleyan and Conn College if you want some inside contacts at any of those just PM me. Good luck with things.