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Besides Amherst, Williams and Swarthmore, what are the best liberal arts colleges on the east coast?


thanks.

By Par72 (Par72) on Sunday, June 06, 2004 - 01:05 am: Edit

Might look at some LAC's that combine good academics with athletics such as Colgate and Holy Cross.

By Im_Blue (Im_Blue) on Sunday, June 06, 2004 - 01:11 am: Edit

Most LACs are on the East Coast. The top ones are: Wellesley, Davidson, Middlebury, Haverford, Bowdoin, Wesleyan, Washington and Lee, Vassar, Smith, Bryn Mawr, Colby, and Colgate.

By Luvvlise (Luvvlise) on Sunday, June 06, 2004 - 01:12 am: Edit

Haverford, Bowdoin, Davidson, Wesleyan, Vassar, Kenyon, Colby, Bates (along with Colgate and Holy Cross already mentioned above) just to name a few more.

By Jblackboy05 (Jblackboy05) on Sunday, June 06, 2004 - 03:39 am: Edit

Oberlin, Tufts, Hampshire, Franklin and Marshall, Mt Holyoke, Spelman, Morehouse, Trinity(CT), Boston College, and Barnard

By Chasgoose (Chasgoose) on Sunday, June 06, 2004 - 04:33 am: Edit

Boston College is not an LAC as it has something like 8000 undergraduate students not to mention the many graduate students it has as well.

By Baybabe (Baybabe) on Sunday, June 06, 2004 - 12:36 pm: Edit

Trinity (Ct.), Dickinson, Conn College, St. Mary's College (Md.), Mary Washington, Hamilton, Union - NOTE: some LAC's mentioned earlier are not on the east coast (must be alum pluggin) and others are not coed (you made no mention if that was an issue or not...)

By Snuffles (Snuffles) on Sunday, June 06, 2004 - 04:45 pm: Edit

Tufts is not an LAC

By Gameguy56 (Gameguy56) on Tuesday, June 08, 2004 - 05:42 pm: Edit

look to the south for more great east coast LACs, like Washington and lee in Virginia or Davidson in North Carolina.

This is, of course of by east cost you mean the whole East Coast and not just the northeast

By Palomino (Palomino) on Tuesday, June 08, 2004 - 05:47 pm: Edit

Outside of AWS, the most highly regarded Eastern (New England/Mid Atlantic) LACs are Middlebury, Bowdoin, Haverford, and Wesleyan.

A notch below but also great: Colby, Bates, Trinity, Hamilton.

If you like Southern schools, look at Davidson.

By Collegeparent (Collegeparent) on Tuesday, June 08, 2004 - 06:13 pm: Edit

There are the Magnificent Seven LACs of the Northeast, three of which are AWS; the other four are Middlebury, Bowdoin, Colgate and Wesleyan. Add to that Haverford as well as Colby, Bates, Hamilton, Trinity, Holy Cross, Connecticut College, Vassar, Union, Lafayette and Bucknell and you've got some very top choices.