<p>[Class</a> of 2014 Profile - College of Charleston](<a href=“Freshman Class Profiles - College of Charleston”>Freshman Class Profiles - College of Charleston) </p>
<p>Here’s the Academic Profile for College of Charleston for students entering Fall 2010.<br>
Interestingly enough, I saw on their home page that they REDUCED Tuition for Spring 2011 In-State students. I didn’t click on it, so did not read the details.</p>
<p>Gosh, I forgot to give a plug for a favorite southern school, Roanoke College. My oldest son graduated from there in May. Excellent merit aid, great location, beautiful campus and a neat freshman integration program.</p>
<p>I love Roanoke! I did not mention it only because I thought VA might not be far enough south. Roanoke has a beautiful campus, small class sizes and is near a city.</p>
<p>Someone of CC speaks well of UT Dallas. My general impression is that the Southwest features very few small schools</p>
<p>I’m sure you are correct yabeyabe2. I have a cool map that shows all the colleges in the US and when you look over at Texas, Arizona and New Mexico you are literally looking at just a couple of dozen colleges in all three states. Here in PA, you can’t drive an hour without hitting a college. I have 7 four year colleges within 20 minutes of my house and I don’t even live in an urban area.</p>
<p>I have heard of St. Edward’s University and Austin College in Texas. I cannot comment about them, because I don’t know anything about these schools. There are some posters on CC from Texas who would know about small schools in Texas.</p>
<p>Great suggestions.Thank you!. I am looking the information about Roanoke (did not know about this school), St Edwards and UT Austin are in our radar, and Berry sounds wonderful, but would prefer a more balanced male/female ratio (I think is almost 70 % girls).</p>
<p>tuitionsaver - I live in Austin. My D has friends at St. Edward’s (Austin) and Southwestern (Georgetown) who love the schools. Both are small, private schools.<br>
[Austin</a>, Texas, USA | School of Management and Business | St. Edward’s University](<a href=“http://www.stedwards.edu/business/]Austin”>The Bill Munday School of Business | St. Edward's University in Austin, Texas)
[Southwestern</a> University: Economics & Business Department](<a href=“http://www.southwestern.edu/departments/economicsbusiness/]Southwestern”>http://www.southwestern.edu/departments/economicsbusiness/)</p>
<p>I have worked with students from both schools who were doing internships, research projects, Paideia (Southwestern) and similar projects and have found them to be well-prepared and engaged in what they were doing. </p>
<p>My D is a freshman at Coastal Carolina University. Located 10 minutes from Myrtle Beach. It is a state school with about 8,500 students. Pretty campus, nice facilities, small classes (no big lectures), in the Big South conference (the campus isn’t sports crazy but they are definitely there for students who want to go to games). Your S’s ACT would qualify for merit aid if he is in the top 20% of his class. Merit aid is posted on their website but we found there to be some flexibility in the “numbers” with special circumstances. I am happy to answer questions about CCU if it looks like it would be of interest to your S.
[Wall</a> College of Business Departments](<a href=“http://www.coastal.edu/business/]Wall”>Business - Coastal Carolina University)
[Quick</a> Facts - Coastal Carolina University](<a href=“http://www.coastal.edu/about/quickfacts.html]Quick”>http://www.coastal.edu/about/quickfacts.html)</p>
<p>kathiep - Within our immediate area (45 minutes drive) there is Univeristy of Texas, St. Edward’s, Concordia, Southwestern, Huston-Tillotson, Texas State, Mary Hardin - Baylor. There are lots of directional schools in both the UT and Texas A&M systems that would be options for students in the 3.0 to 3.3 GPA group.</p>
<p>I’m sure there are a lot of fine colleges in Texas, but as big as your state is, there are more in PA. Which makes sense since it was populated much earlier. But back to the question about Southern Colleges. I found this neat website where you can look at colleges map-wise - [College</a> Map | US College Locations](<a href=“http://college-map.com/]College”>http://college-map.com/)</p>
<p>Tuitionsaver, if Va is within range, the university of Mary Washington is worth a look.</p>
<p>I note that if you looked a little further north (sinc eyou are flying in any event) you might find that the geographic diversity appeal of being from Texas would help significantly with merit $.</p>
<p>I supect the difference in number of colleges is more pronounced with private schools than public ones. As the colonists moved west, colleges sprang up to teach seminarians. And, in those early, pre-railroad days, distances loomed much greater.</p>
<p>This thread keeps going to page 3 - I think the problem is that there are too many Jewish posters on this forum - we need you guys to post HERE!! </p>
<p>I’m starting to breathe easier about colleges. Son has several acceptances now with merit aid at most of them. For those of you whose kids haven’t finished their apps, I hope this will be the week they hit SUBMIT!</p>
<p>Yay, kathie!!! Where? Places he wants to go? Might you be close to a decision? How exciting!</p>
<p>Maybe the 3.Xs need to rejoin instead of being single grad years. The newbies aren’t getting the info from the old folks any more. Maybe we’re too diluted?</p>
<p>kathiep, sounds like you have a lot of thanks to give next week! Congrats!</p>
<p>My 3.0 to 3.3 S just got his first acceptance to Xavier in Cincinnati with a substantial merit scholarship. Yeah.</p>
<p>Congrats, mamom to your son & you!!!</p>
<p>congrats mamom!</p>
<p>congrats mamom and kathiep: what a day!!</p>
<p>Kathie: soooooo, where??? haha…I guess you might have posted elsewhere but my impatience is showing…</p>
<p>Kathiep, and mamom, CONGRATULATIONS to you and your sons!!! 
:D</p>
<p>Hurray for our kids! I know acceptances are wonderful for everyone, but it’s particularly special for these kids who don’t have the stellar stats. And to get scholarships, too! That’s always such a wonderfully reassuring experience for all of us!!</p>
<p>Son is nowhere close to a decision. He won’t hear from his top choice until January. It should be a match/safety school but the finaid (merit) packet will play a big part. Meanwhile the blessing with early acceptance is we can (hopefully) do some re-visits between now and May 1 including overnights and classroom visits. </p>
<p>I think it’s really, really important for parents to know that private colleges can be affordable even for B students. One college Son got accepted is Hartwick College in Oneonta, NY and they’ve offered him $20,000 a year. That makes it $26,000 a year which is not much more then Penn State - IN state! That’s before any financial aid, which most likely won’t be much at all, but for someone that qualifies for finaid,( or even for those that don’t) it’s a darn good deal.</p>