<p>I am a junior in hs and I was just wondering what the best colleges are for an english lit major who also has an interest in writing. I'm already looking at Wellesley, Sarah Lawrence, Oberlin and Denison.</p>
<p>Great schools for English majors include</p>
<p>Amherst College
Bard
Barnard
Bates
Beloit
Bowdoin College
Brown University
Bryn Mawr
Carleton College
College of Wooster
Columbia University
Cornell University
Darthmouth College
Davidson College
Denison U
DePauw U
Dickinson
Duke University
Grinnell College
Hamilton
Harvard University
Haverford College
Johns Hopkins University
Kenyon
Knox
Lawrence U
Macalester
Middlebury College
Northwestern University
Oberlin College
Pomona College
Princeton University
Saint Olaf
Sarah Lawrence
Scripps
Skidmore
Smith
Swarthmore College
UCLA
University of California-Berkeley
University of Chicago
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
University of Pennsylvania
University of Virginia
University of Wisconsin- Madison
Vassar College
Wellesley
Weselyan University
Williams College
Yale University</p>
<p>Sorry that there are so many colleges on the list. I searched old forums to find these.</p>
<p>some say that kenyon's is the best in the country. plus they have the Kenyon Review, this really famous literary periodical that undergrads get to work on. I've also heard great things about Middlebury's English department. You'd want a focus in literature, right, not in creative writing?</p>
<p>Doesn't Middlebury have the special Breadloaf writing program? Or is that a grad level course of study?</p>
<p>Aside from a few highly specialized schools (e.g. conservatories, art institutes, military academies, technical institutes, the Webb Institute of Naval Architecture, General Motors Institute, and Hamburger University), you can study English lit. just about anywhere. Pick a school that's an overall good fit for you.</p>
<p>When you're doing your search make sure they have a strong lit, not just writing program. Kenyon is a very good school in that aspect. It has a very strong english program, one worth looking into. The only other one I'll comment on is sarah lawrence. It's probably one of the most writing intensive schools in the US. No matter what your concentration is, from math to italian, you will be writing more than at your average school.</p>