advice?

<p>I am currently a senior, with major commitment problems on where I should go to school. After graduation, I plan on traveling the country for roughly a year with two friends. I have been convinced to apply this year, and defer my enrollment until my return. I am an avid enthusiast for anything that involves the outdoors, but do not want to go to a totally rural university or college. I am an average student, and to say the least, cannot afford an expensive school, but would like to attend on with some kind of prestige and accountability. I'd like to major in either environmental science and/or philosophy. </p>

<p>Should i account for any other deciding factors?</p>

<p>Advice on schools that may fit my interests?</p>

<p>Gourman Report Undergrad environmental sciences
environmental sciences
Harvard
MIT
Cornell
UC Berkeley
UC Davis
U Michigan Ann Arbor
U Penn
UVA
SUNY Coll Env Sci Forestry
JHU
Purdue
U Minnesota </p>

<p>Rugg’s environmental studies</p>

<p>LACs
Allegheny
Bates
Berry (GA)
Bethany (WV)
Bowdoin
Brenau
Bryn Mawr
Centenary
Clark
Colby
Connecticut C
Davis and Elkins
Denison
Dickinson
Doane
Drake
Dubuque
Earlham
Eckerd
Findlay
SUNY Fredonia
Green Mountain (VT)
Juniata
Kalamazoo
Lake Forest
Lynchburg (VA)
Macalester
MiddleburyMillsaps
Monmouth (IL)
New Mexico Inst Mining and Tech
UNC Ashville
Northland (WI)
Oberlin
Ohio Wesleyan
Pitzer
SUNY Plattsburgh
Ramapo
Randolph Macon
Ripon
Sacred Heart (CT)
St Anselm (NH)
St John’s (MN)
St Lawrence (NY)
St Michael’s (VT)
Salisbury State (MD)
College of Santa Fe
Sarah Lawrence
Shepard (WV)
Stanford (CA)
SUNY College of Environ Science & Forestry
Susquehanna
Valparaiso
Warren Wilson
Webster (MO)
Wesleyan (CT)
Western Washington
West Virginia Wesleyan
Westfield State
Whitman
U Wisconsin Steven’s Point </p>

<p>UNIVERSITIES
U Colorado
Florida Gulf Coast
U Florida
Hawaii Pacific
U New Hampshire
New Mexico State
Oregon State
South Florida
Southwestern (TX)
U Vermont
Washington State
Western Washington
U Wyoming</p>