Hi folks. We have been visiting colleges for our 2016 - a range of size and locale. He's a good student at a very good private school in Maryland. We thought we'd love the UC schools like UCSD and UCLA and the LACs like Pomona and Haverford but after looking at 10 in CA and some on the East Coast, we really like the Jesuit (yes I know one is some other order) schools - BC, Santa Clara, U of San Diego and maybe Villanova. The size (medium) seems perfect. They seem to be well run. They seem strong in science and business and more pre-professional than the LACs. We wonder about how Catholic they feel as we are not anything. We also worry about the frat culture. He is very into sports but not a frat kid at all. We have read that these schools can be cliquish....and we worry about endowment numbers at U of San Diego and maybe Santa Clara, his two favorites. Would love to hear from any parents who were skeptical about these schools but whose kids ended up choosing one. We didn't expect to like them but we loved them.
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