<p>Are there any schools I have left off the list that we should add? Any on the list that we should remove?
We are thinking of making a tour of some southeast colleges during our highschool's spring break this year. We will skip any Florida schools for this trip since we are in Florida and can visit them another time. </p>
<p>My daughter's current interest is in neuroscience. She plans to go on to get a Masters. She thinks she will want a smaller school/smaller classes, likes to be around academically minded students, isn't a partier, isn't really interested in sororities.</p>
<p>We are thinking of:
Emory
Agnes Scott
Furman
Davidson
Guilford
Duke</p>
<p>My thinking is that this will give us a good overview of what might be available outside of the state, but still relatively close to home. We may plan a NE tour for the summer.</p>
<p>You may want to do a quick net price calculator check and look at what merit scholarships are available. No point in visiting a college where there is no possibility of it being affordable.</p>
<p>I think it’s a very good list. The only college I recommend adding is Wake Forest. Many people seem a bit turned off by its Greek scene, but independent students do perfectly well there. Academically it seems right up her alley, and classes are very small for a university. (It has fewer classes with 50+ students than many LACs.)</p>
<p>Driving north from Davidson to Wake and then looping east to hit Guilford and Duke is very easy. Elon is also along that route and may be worth a look if you have time.</p>
<p>Duke actually has a neuroscience institute and is very strong in this area. I do not think the other colleges on this list have much capacity (ok, perhaps Emory) in this area, as are smallish and LAC-ish and not “research universities.”</p>
<p>Thank you. I have added Wakeforest to the possible list. I’m not sure why I haven’t read much at all about it before. Centre College sounds interesting, but it is a ways off the path for this trip. I will check out the financial calculators to see what we come up to make sure they are at least possibilities before we visit. I had looked at Elon, but crossed it off the list, can’t really remember why now. There is so much information to try to sort through and remember!
We will be hoping for aid (merit and/or need based) for any private or OOS schools, and will not want to go into debt for an undergrad degree.</p>
<p>Since you’ll be visiting Furman, you might consider having a look around Wofford, too. Spartanburg is not far at all from Greenville. And I recommend visiting Elon, which is not terribly far from Durham.</p>
<p>That’s a great list! I wish I had taken a closer look at Furman when I was in high school; they sent me a lot of materials, but I had never heard of it before so I didn’t think twice about it.</p>
<p>While you’re in Atlanta do you maybe want to visit Oglethorpe University? It’s actually a small liberal arts college in Atlanta; very pretty campus, and they have a scholarship program there called JEO scholars. I also second the recommendation of Wake Forest when you’re in NC, and maybe Elon and High Point.</p>
<p>Emory is great for neuroscience, but small LACs can be pretty good in the sciences too depending. Agnes Scott has a pretty well-respected science program among LACs, and a women’s college is a great place to be a science major for a young woman. The campus is beautiful, you’ll love it! And the residence halls are so nice. Great food, too. (I went to high school in Atlanta, ASC was tied for my number one choice in HS - I got a generous financial aid package from them, full tuition - and I had a number of friends who went to ASC so I was on the campus a lot. They also had a professor position in my field open there this year; alas, it came just a year too early for me to apply, as I won’t be finished with my dissertation until next May. Sigh. I would love to teach there.) And given how close it is to Emory, if your daughter wanted to take classes there or do research it’s totally doable.</p>
<p>There’s also Wesleyan College, a small women’s college in Macon, GA.</p>
<p>Vanderbilt is on our broader list, but would add a day’s drive and just wouldn’t fit into the schedule for Spring break, but as it turns out, it looks like the trip may be moved to the summer anyway, so maybe we will be able to fit it in!</p>