Want warm weather
Smaller school
Good envirosci program
4.3 GPA
1400 SAT
Multiple athletic and academic awards
Pres of 3 clubs
Volunteering
9 clubs
What’s your budget? Are you in Florida? I saw you are looking at Eckerd and USF on your other thread. Those seem like great choices.
Disregarding cost, others that come to mind for marine science are UNC-Wilmington and William and Mary. UNCW has great programs in these areas. It’s in a very nice city and has about 14k undergrads. William and Mary (about 6k undergrads) also has VIMS, more of a grad program, but I think it does present some opportunities to undergrads. You could research that. William and Mary is very competitive, especially OOS, but you have good stats. It is very expensive OOS, unless you received one of the bigger scholarships. I think UNCW costs less OOS.
Good luck!
Environmental science is interdisciplinary. Different schools have different areas of strength. For marine science, consider Eckerd College (FL) . For earth sciences, check out Colorado College (which isn’t exactly a warm weather school, but at least it’s sunny and dry). One of the best small college botany programs seems to be at Connecticut College (which also isn’t a warm weather school). For a good integrated environmental science program at a small, warm weather school, consider Pitzer. New College of Florida might also be worth a look.
You may need to compromise on size or climate to find enough strong programs at schools where you have realistic chances at admission plus adequate aid (or a relatively low sticker price). Many big state universities would have broad/deep environmental science programs. Some LACs in New England, the upper Midwest, or the PNL have good/interesting programs (like Whitman’s “Semester in the West” – http://www.semesterinthewest.org/).
Hi there! I’m a senior at UNCW graduating with a marine biology degree. I think UNCW checks off all of your boxes! It is a smaller school with around 15,000 students and I can walk across campus in 15 minutes, and it is by the beach so it’s certainly warm. I’m staying here for my environmental science Masters and many undergrads double major in biology and marine biology. If you’re interested in research, people get involved as early as freshmen year here which is a big draw with our science programs!