<p>if you know any schools that have those features, tell me!
oh and they cant outright reject me so here's some basic stats:</p>
<p>intl( Canadian in China for the past 3 years, and spent another 3 years in Hong kong before that)</p>
<p>IB student
SAT I: 2190 or 1490/1600 verbal: 750 math: 740 writing:700
School: very small, only 25 kids in my grade. I'm the second kid to take SAT I the first kid got a 1600 something/2400...so not very competitive in terms of US college wise but everyone takes IB classes</p>
<p>This is one of those great "fit" questions. 90 percent of selective LACs and smaller private universities are in the northeast or northern midwest, and thus offer cold and snow in abundance (during November - March, more in some cases). All of them offer small classes, by and large. And economics, being the obscure, impractical discipline that it is, is probably a strong focus at only about 98% of them. So . . . having discarded, maybe, Bard, you had better start looking for more criteria to narrow things down. All the suggestions made so far, and lots of others, are good ones. </p>
<p>For example, it's cold and snowy sometimes in the Boston area, and I hear they have economists teaching in a number of schools there -- sometimes even in small classes (at least above the intro levels). Speaking of which, I don't know that there's anywhere you would find introductory economics classes that are really small. A lot of people want to take 'em.</p>
<p>At the risk of having sand kicked in my face, what is it about the cold and great schools? I hadn't put that 90% (above) together before, but the poster certainly has a point.</p>
<p>Chicago & MIT are two of the world's best in econ. It don't get any colder than Chicago. Also consider Dartmouth, for small classes, and a LAC-like experience.</p>