<p>Does anyone have any experience with or thoughts on the following colleges?:</p>
<p>TCNJ
Loyola in MD
U. of the South- Sewanee
Rhodes College
Furman U.
U. of Richmond
W+L U.
Wake Forest
Vanderbilt
Boston College
Boston U
Holy Cross</p>
<p>And also I've been told I could use a few more reachy schools so if anyone has suggestions for schools that are similar to the above I would appreciate it : )</p>
<p>U. of the South- Sewanee - very small, in the middle of nowhere but very beautiful and spacious, kids I know who go there love it
Rhodes College - i think it's pretty similar to Sewanee in size and types of students, but in Memphis</p>
<p>U. of Richmond - very preppy/white, really strong in business, dorms are divided by gender i believe</p>
<p>Vanderbilt - Nashville is awesome, one of prettiest campuses in the country, very southern feel
Boston College - another beautiful campus (you sure know how to pick 'em!), also very preppy, Catholic, quick ride into Boston, strong in business
Boston U - some would say opposite of Boston College - right smack dab in the "urban" environment, good in communications, engineering, and business, liberal and diverse student body, huge school, good for merit aid but overall rather pricy</p>
<p>I've visited many of them, here are my thoughts...
Loyola MD - is this your safety? baltimore is great (live here), loyola is really a good school, smallish, kids seem to love it</p>
<p>Richmond-very good, has program in leadership studies, which is interesting, does segregate dorms by sex, kind of traditional...frats are more service-based than crazy partiers, although i'm sure they do that too...richmond is a great city</p>
<p>W&L-loved it, applied, but a big drawback: small school in a very small town, great sense of community and beautiful campus, but the location seems limiting</p>
<p>Wake Forest-again, applied, loved it, visited twice, great opportunities for a school of its size (big athletics, study abroad, laptops), medium-sized, suburban location</p>
<p>vandy-loved nashville, but didnt wuite like vanderbilt, very nice campus, nice kids, but it just didnt seem to fit me, ask someone else, most people love it</p>
<p>those are my impressions...all of the above schools are somewhat preppy student-wise, and all are great</p>
<p>yes, loyola will probably be one of my safeties... most people at my school use either loyola or villanova as their safety, from what I've heard/seen I like loyola better because of the location</p>
<p>One of my best friends is an athlete at Loyola MD and absolutely loves it. From what she tells me, it is a very preppy school but pretty close-knit, and she loves baltimore.</p>
<p>Holy Cross is very pretty and an excellent school. The town it is in is pretty unattractive. Kids are generally very happy there.</p>
<p>great schools, similar in ranking, maybe Vandy slightly higher. I have been to Wake, Furman, W & L, Vandy, and Rhodes. All have beautiful campuses, especially Furman and Wake. Nashville is a great city. Greenville (Furman) is one of the rising stars in the Southeast. Winston-Salem is OK, although some would say not. W & L was nice, but small and remote. The southern schools on the list might be slightly better as a group, although all are top shelf. I considered most of the southern group and selected FURMAN.</p>
<p>I absolutley love Furman...also one of my top choices. The attitude at Vandy turned me off: snotty, manor born, hoity toity, elite sorority girls and fraternity boys who spend more time planning outfits for class than studying...yeah didn't like that. So FU! (Furman University that is...)</p>
<p>if u like Maya Angelou she's a professor at Wake Forrest</p>
<p>TCNJ is impressive for a state school. It's easy to see why so many of NJ's top students end up there, because they can get a top-notch liberal arts education for half the cost (or less, with considerable merit aid available) of comparable private schools. Nice campus in a suburban area about halfway between NY and Philly. Almost everyone is from NJ.</p>
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Wake is a small school, and it truly has a focus on undergraduate education. I visited several times, and the thing that always struck me the most was the amazing friendliness of the student body. Almost everyone said "hi," and a few people asked me if I was lost. One student even went out her way to show me the chemistry department. Speaking of which
the science facilities at Wake are excellent. I only toured the biology and chemistry departments, but I was very impressed by the displayed research (most of which was done by undergrads) and the clean, well-equipped labs. The chair of the chem department told us that 90% of chem majors at Wake are admitted to their first choice for graduate school! The biology department is also great and offers a wide range of courses and options. A popular option is the SEA semester, where you spend a semester on a ship. Ive heard the physics program is every bit as good, but I cant vouch for it personally. A smaller and lesser known but excellent department is anthropology. Among other resources, students have at their disposal the Museum of Anthropology on-campus, the archaeology laboratories, and the opportunity to do archaeological excavation at Old Salem! The English and History departments are probably among the most popular (along with business), and needless to say, theyre first-rate. I cant say much about foreign languages, but I was very impressed with their German program. If I recall correctly, Wake Forest has study abroad centers in London, Vienna, and Venice, and study abroad is fairly popular. The campus is very well-kept, and beautiful if you like magnolias (if you dont, learn to like them). Im not sure how to describe the architecture, but its mostly brick with white decorations/pillars/etc. Some of the buildings are fairly old (e.g. some of the science buildings), but others (like the library and Reynolda hall) are very nice indeed. A current student can tell you a lot more about food than I can, but I ate lunch at the the Pit when I visited, and it was fairly tasty. I only saw the substance-free dorms, and they seemed to be decent-sized. Dorms come with air conditioning (at least some of them do), and you get a free computer and printer. During your junior (or senior?) year they switch your computer for a newer model, which you get to keep. If you know anything about basketball at all, you probably know that Wake students are very enthusiastic! Reputation wise
Wake Forest is very highly regarded in the South, but I cant comment about it elsewhere. In the academic world, Wake certainly gets respect. Students work hard, though- it isnt known as Work Forest for nothing! Freshmen can have cars, but you can't park on campus, and enough people have one that you probably don't need one.
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<p>Davidson College would be a good reach for you.</p>