<p>Since I'm starting to think about which colleges to apply for, I'm asking your advice.
I have a strong interest in English, and maybe Philosophy. I'm interested in a great liberal arts program at top universities.
I think (well, hope) I have the stats to get into the ivy league + other top schools.
What's my best option here?</p>
<p>Hm... right off the bat I'd say Amherst College, Vassar College, Swarthmore College, Williams College, Kenyon College, Middlebury College, Carleton College, Reed College, Bard College, Haverford College, and Skidmore College. </p>
<p>There are also a TON of other LACs that have excellent English programs... English is a very popular major at most LACs so the English departments are usually pretty good at those types of schools (at least at the LACs I looked at). Any of the Ivy League schools would also have a strong English program, I'd imagine. In making your list, try looking at the different courses offered in English at schools too... some specialize more in creative writing while others are particularly strong in a specific type of literature (British during the 18th-20th centuries, for example).</p>
<p>Oberlin also has an excellent English department, among the liberal arts schools. Harvard, Yale, UC Berkeley are unsurpassed among the universities.</p>
<p>Brown
Carnegie Mellon
Chicago
Columbia
Cornell
Duke
Emory
Harvard
Indiana
Iowa
Johns Hopkins
Michigan
Northwestern
NYU
Penn
Pittsburgh
Princeton
Stanford
UC Berkeley
UCI
UCLA
UIUC
UNC Chapel Hill
USC
UT Austin
UVA
Vanderbilt
William & Mary
Yale</p>
<p>I would certainly add Davidson and Bowdoin to littleatheist's list of LACs. For creative writing I would add Bennington, Beloit, Denison, Goucher, Grinnell, Hamilton, Knox, Sarah Lawrence, Susquehanna, and U Redlands.</p>
<p>thanks guys.
which are the top 3 undergraduate creative writing programs?</p>
<p>Hopkins, Iowa, Bard, Kenyon.</p>
<p>Again, Oberlin also has an excellent creative writing program.</p>