Hamilton College is a small liberal arts college in Clinton, New York, a small town in the upstate Adirondack region. The college is home to about 2,000 students who share a deep commitment to the humanities and a passion for being around nature and experiencing all four seasons. If you want a winter — they’ve got a winter!
Applying to Wesleyan as an International Student
Wesleyan University is a small liberal arts school in Middletown, CT twenty minutes from the city of Hartford and under two hours from both New York City and Boston. The school is home to just over 3,000 undergraduate students who are passionate about the unique educational perspective Wesleyan has to offer. With over 45 majors, more than 900 courses, and an 8:1 student-to-faculty ratio, the school is a favorite of liberal arts-minded students even before you account for the Open Curriculum.
Applying to Colby College as an International Student
Colby College is a small undergraduate liberal arts school in the city of Waterville, Maine. The college offers a balance of rural and urban, small community and broad resources, and a highly-respected package. 64% of classes have fewer than 20 students, and the college is well-known for offering a level of access to professors for counsel, mentorship, and even just conversation, that larger schools simply can’t facilitate. Students have the opportunity to explore broadly, dive deeply into what they care about most, and have fun while doing it.
Applying to Bowdoin as an International Student
In the United States, there are the colleges everyone knows about because they’re so old or famous or big that you really can’t avoid knowing them — and then there are the colleges everyone knows about because they are both so beloved, and so hard to get into, that you feel like you never stop hearing about them. Bowdoin is one of the latter. In this post, we’ll break down how to break into Bowdoin if you’re an international student applying to college in the United States.
Applying to Middlebury as an International Student
The idea of going to college in rural Vermont in the far northeast of the United States where the winters are long and cold may sound like a hard pitch for exceptional international students. Surprisingly, it’s not. Middlebury College is one of the most prestigious colleges in the U.S., and one of the most popular among international applicants. In this post, we’ll break down why Middlebury is so popular for international students and how you can increase your chance of acceptance if you apply.
Applying to Trinity College as an International Student
Trinity College is a liberal arts college in the heart of the city of Hartford, Connecticut. The college has an old school vibe, a liberal arts foundation, and a close-knit community. There are other Trinity Colleges in the world, but here we’re talking about a super special one founded in 1823 that about 2,000 students call home. Proportional to the student body, Trinity has a very large international student population of just under 300 students representing over 80 countries. These students benefit from everything Trinity has to offer, but Trinity also fully embraces how much the international students also have to contribute to the community. The Office of International Students and Scholars supports international students in both the quantitative and qualitative aspects of going to college in the United States, from how you manage your visa to finding comradery and friendship on campus.
Applying to Connecticut College as an International Student
Connecticut College is a small liberal arts college along the Thames River — in New London, Connecticut, to be clear, not England. The school is home to just under 2,000 students, and is lovingly called “Conn.” Conn is rooted in the liberal arts tradition, but is also committed to preparing students to excel in a constantly changing world. The college has always been at the forefront of change ever since it was founded in 1911 to right a wrong. When a local university barred women from entry, Connecticut College was created to open doors.
What to Do if You’ve Been Waitlisted by Wesleyan 2024
Wesleyan University is a dynamic and diverse liberal arts college that is predominately undergraduate and is located in Middletown, Connecticut. The campus is stunning, bringing together modern, contemporary, and classical architecture in a way that visually embodies the ideals of the university. They look to the past to inform the present and shape the future, and students at Wesleyan know that they are part of something truly special. Students are encouraged to explore and adventure academically, pulling from diverse disciplines and arenas in a way that is grounded firmly in the liberal arts tradition. The undergraduate college is extremely popular among students looking for an exceptional education in a small school setting, and, in 2022, the acceptance rate was 14.4%.
What to Do if You’ve Been Waitlisted by Williams 2024
Williams is a small private liberal arts college in Massachusetts with a reputation for bringing together students who are both brilliant and who want to impact the world in a positive way. The community has a tight-knit culture, and students both push and support each other towards excellence. The acceptance rate for the last few years has fluctuated between 8.5% and 10%, making Williams a very selective school.
What to Do if You’ve Been Waitlisted by Bowdoin 2024
Bowdoin is kind of the hipster of the Little Ivies. With their beaches, mountains, food trucks, and L.L. Bean boots (their words, not ours), it has a vibe that’s pretty similar to Dartmouth; but with about a third of the student population. Whether you dream of discussing Nietzsche with friends by the fireplace on a snowy day or hitting the streets to give back to your community, Bowdoin may be the perfect fit if you’re looking for a small, liberal arts college.
How to Get Into Tufts
Tufts is a private research university just outside of Boston. While this blog is part of a series we are doing about getting into the schools of the New England Small Collegiate Athletic Conference (NESCAC), Tufts is kind of an outlier. While they are in the league… they aren’t that small of a school. They have just under 7k undergrads. While the other schools of the NESCAC are liberal arts schools, Tufts is very much a research university. They take a lot of pride in this as well.
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College Athletic Recruiting for Williams
Williams College is a private liberal arts college in Willliamstown, Massachusetts. It’s small, with just over 2,000 undergrads, and it’s in the beautiful – but rural – Berkshires. While technically a college, Williams also has tiny little grad programs for development economics and art history. Williams is also a member of the New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC), and competes in D3 sports with Amherst, Bates, Bowdoin, Colby, Connecticut College, Hamilton, Middlebury, Tufts, Trinity, and Wesleyan. Approximately 35% of the school competes on a varsity or club team and interestingly enough, they also compete D1 in skiing and squash!
College Athletic Recruiting for Amherst
Putting the small in small liberal arts school, Amherst College is located in, you guessed it, Amherst, Massachusetts. With an undergrad population of less than 2k and a totally open curriculum, Amherst attracts students who want to dive deep into their academic subject of choice. They’re also a very athletic school – and they claim to have the oldest athletics department in the country since they’ve been requiring physical education since 1860. They also played the first college baseball game ever against Williams. Currently, they are part of the New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC), and compete in D3 sports with Bates, Bowdoin, Colby, Connecticut College, Hamilton, Middlebury, Tufts, Trinity, Wesleyan, and Williams. About 35-40% of the student body competes in a varsity sport.
College Athletic Recruiting for Bates
Bates College is a small, private liberal arts college located in Lewiston, Maine. They’re known for killer academics and an incredibly beautiful campus, but they’re also known for their incredibly strong athletic teams. Bates is a member of the New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC), and competes against Amherst, Bowdoin, Colby, Connecticut College, Hamilton, Middlebury, Tufts, Trinity, Wesleyan, and Williams in NCAA D3 sports. Their teams are some of the best in not only the NESCAC, but among all NCAA D3 teams. They’re producing olympians!!! So, if you’re looking for a liberal arts education and have athletic talent, you might think that your sport could help you get into Bates. Maybe! Keep reading.
College Athletic Recruiting at Hamilton College
Hamilton is a top-tier liberal arts school located in Clinton, NY. With their suburban campus, small size (2,000 undergrads), and selective acceptance rate (11%), this school definitely has a classic liberal arts vibe. Some of their most popular majors include econ, bio, poli sci, and psych and they’re known for ditching the ever-popular core curriculum system and letting students choose almost their entire course selection. They’re also a NESCAC school and over 35% of students participate in sports. Because you are reading this, you probably want to know if getting recruited to Hamilton will help you get in. Maybe? Keep reading.
College Athletic Recruiting for Colby College
Colby College is a private liberal arts college located in Waterville, Maine with about 2,000 students total. Their most popular majors include economics, political science, and psychology, so it’s definitely a liberal arts school. They’re also a pretty athletic school, with 1/3rd of the campus competing in at least one (if not more!) varsity sport. Colby is part of the New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC), and competes in D3 sports with Amherst, Bates, Bowdoin, Connecticut College, Hamilton, Middlebury, Tufts, Trinity, Wesleyan, and Williams. They’re also part of the Colby-Bates-Bowdoin Consortium, which is some weird micro-athletic conference made up of all the maine colleges in Maine. We are so good at puns. Moving on!
College Athletic Recruiting for Tufts
Tufts Univeristy is a private research institution located a hop, skip, and a jump away from Boston. They used to be a small liberal arts school, but decided to start offering PhD’s in the 70s, and now have approximately 7k undergrads and 7k grad students. They’re huge into STEM, with top-notch undergrad and grad programs in chemistry, biology, and biomedical engineering. They also do a lot of crossover programs with the New England Conservatory of Music, MIT, and Harvard. Tufts is part of the New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC), and competes in D3 sports with Amherst, Bates, Bowdoin, Colby, Connecticut College, Hamilton, Middlebury, Trinity, Wesleyan, and Williams. Unlike many of their NESCAC cohorts, Tufts isn’t an overwhelmingly athletic school, but it is one of the top athletic programs in D3 sports. Also, their mascot is an elephant named Jumbo. We found this disturbing information about Jumbo’s lore:
College Athletic Recruiting for Wesleyan
Wesleyan University, located in Middletown, Connecticut, is a private liberal arts university with a little bit of a STEM bent. It’s also an incredibly academic school–several studies from 2008 found that undergraduates from Wesleyan were 2nd in the country for pursuing PhDs among all liberal arts schools. It’s also a member of the New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC) and competes in D3 sports with Amherst, Bates, Bowdoin, Colby, Connecticut College, Hamilton, Middlebury, Tufts, Trinity, and Williams. Approximately 25% of students at Wesleyan play a varsity sport, making it one of the less sporty schools in NESCAC, despite the fact they were an original member of the NCAA.
Sports Recruiting for NESCAC Schools
The New England Small College Athletic Conference is made up of eleven top-tier liberal arts colleges and universities in the US, including Amherst, Bates, Bowdoin, Colby, Connecticut College, Hamilton, Middlebury, Tufts, Trinity, Wesleyan, and Williams. Some of these schools are known as Hidden or Little Ivies, and some are more competitive than others to gain admission to. However, these schools also all have pretty robust athletics departments, even though they’re D3. If you’re interested in attending one of these small liberal arts schools and want to leverage your athletic ability to give your application that push: keep reading.