Colleges in the South...

[Haystack]

<p>FYI...nothing earth shattering here, just an online guidebook that might be of some value to parents and students...</p>

<p>"The Associated Colleges of the South has just published Sweet Sixteen: Great Colleges of the South, a book featuring the distinctive characteristics of the extraordinary 16 colleges and universities that are members of the ACS." </p>

<p>ACS</a> Book</p>

[missypie]

<p>My son spent his freshman year at one of those schools. What they say in their materials is so not true. He has moderately fond memories of his year there. I hate the school.</p>

[warblersrule]

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FYI…nothing earth shattering here, just an online guidebook that might be of some value to parents and students…

I’m happy to see a resource for those interested in southern LACs. One hears endlessly on CC about the “underrated” and “hidden” Midwestern LACs, but southern LACs get very little love. </p>

<p>The descriptions of Davidson and Rhodes seem spot on, and the others were interesting reads. It’d be nice if some of these reviews were a little <em>less</em> positive, though; it’s difficult to ferret out what isn’t so good about colleges, and no college is perfect. </p>

<p>The Awkward Boast award goes to Morehouse:

“There’s nowhere else in the United States,” says Mills [formerly the college’s dean of humanities and social sciences], “where you can see three thousand African American men who are not in jail.”

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<p>The Most Interesting Name award goes to Sewanee:

The word “sewanee,” from the Shawnee language, means lost, in the sense of “a person who starts for a given place and unexpectedly arrives at a very different one,” according to the book Sewanee Places.

The Best At Politics award goes to W&L:

On the political front, W&L holds a mock presidential convention every four years that the university says is “regarded as the best civic educational exercise at any college in the nation.”…In all but two years since 1952, the Mock Convention has correctly identified the candidate who went on to win the party’s nomination.

The Take That, Homophobia award goes to BSC:

The college also produced The Laramie Project, a meditation on the murder of Matthew Shepard, a gay student at the University of Wyoming, and its aftermath. The play explores the repercussions of hate. “Six hundred people saw the show and had to think about it,” Flowers says.

The Rigor award goes to Millsaps:

All degree candidates must pass rigorous written and oral comprehensive exams that assess mastery of concepts within academic majors.

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