<p>Hey CC people, my first post here, and the topic is colleges with an emphasis on service learning.</p>
<p>I'm currently a junior in high school, trying to get a head start on my search. I take classes both at my high school and Miami University just down the road, holding an overall A- average. Also, I've scored around the 2100-2200 range on SAT practice tests I have taken.</p>
<p>I'd like to know if you CC'ers could provide a list of preferably small colleges with an emphasis on social values such as work, service, philanthropy etc. I simply cannot justify my parents paying 30, 40, or 50k a year sending me to school just so I can pursue my own selfish academic interests. The education reformer Horace Mann once said "Doing nothing for others is the undoing of ourselves."</p>
<p>I've looked at a few schools such as Grinnell and Warren Wilson, but the territory looks scare beyond that selection.</p>
<p>There are many schools that may fit the bill. The Quaker schools are based on the philosophy you described, as our Jesuit schools. Many parents cannot afford 30-50k. I suggest two strategies:</p>
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<li><p>Sit down with your parents and ask them to complete some of the on-line calculators. If your family’s EFC is within a range your family is comfortable paying, review the list of select schools that meet full need. Haverford College is one that would fall into this catergory. Haverford is just outside Philadelphia and not as isolated as Warren Wilson. </p></li>
<li><p>Look at schools where you are in the top 25% of applications and that offer merit. </p></li>
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<p>A good place to start is with the Loren Pope book, Colleges That Change Lives. It highlights 40 schools, most small LACs with good merit.</p>
<p>By all means, many schools, even huge state universities, do a great deal of Philanthropy. I’m from PA - Penn State does outstanding community service. Please do not limit your search to LACs. </p>
<p>You may also want to research how many graduates enter Peace Corp, America Corp, etc after graduating. To me, this is one data point which highlight the ethos of the college.</p>
<p>Great ideas already suggested. I would like to add that service and philanthropy is valued and emphasized at most every college now. Personally, I know UGA, Georgia Tech and Oglethorpe all have many opportunities and strongly encourage students to get involved. Besides college-wide activities, clubs and college church groups all try to help various causes. There are also many service trips during breaks and service-based study abroad trips.</p>
<p>There are a couple of “free” schools, can’t recall the names right now, where you work your way through rather than pay tuition. Maybe someone else can chime in with them.</p>
<p>Good listings from Zapfino. Locally U Dayton strongly encourages service within the local community and after college. They also have some good scholarships available.</p>
<p>I applaud your devotion to service/philanthropy, as well as quoting Horace Mann, but don’t you think that you can go to college and get the best education possible, so as to better serve the world after? I’m not implying that a college with a inclination towards service won’t offer a good education, just that you could consider others.</p>
<p>Rhodes. #1 Community-minded school according to Newsweek. President’s Community Service Honor Roll several years in a row. 80% students involved in community service. Opportunities for service abroad. ROTC available. Bonner campus. Many graduates go on to service work like Teach for America, Peace Corps, Americorps, military careers, community health and law clinics, etc. Located in Memphis with a <em>lot</em> of opportunities to serve all kinds of populations, and a student-run group that organizes those opportunities into advocacy areas.</p>
<p>Agree about Jesuit schools-Holy Cross places a good number of students in the JVC. Also HC encourages commuinity service on campus in the Worcester area.</p>
<p>Check out Tufts. They have their own college for public service and citizenship called the Tisch College of Citizenship and Public Service. You don’t get a degree there but the college helps facilitate and promote volunteerism and public service. It’s pretty much part of the school’s culture.</p>
<p>I wasn’t quite expecting to get bombarded with so many answers! There’s a lot of tremendously helpful information here, and I’m delighted to see that my values are so prevalent and at work in higher ed. I also now realize that I can’t possibly visit every school that meets my previously stated parameters.</p>
<p>Perhaps a few more things about myself to narrow down the list.</p>
<p>Firstly, I really think I’ll be happier, more involved, and generally more comfortable at a small school. Freshman year of high school I attended a huge (3000+ students) suburban district, where I felt lost and frustrated. Sophomore year I moved to a much smaller, rural district where I’ve had a wonderful experience. Secondly, I’ll address the tuition issue. My family is very comfortable and very white, and I am an only child. I may be wrong on this, but I’m not positive that my 3.8 GPA and 2200 SAT will be overly impressive to the selective schools I’m aiming at. However, I think my parents will be willing to pay. Considering just how privileged I am, I cannot fathom using my potentially $200,000 education exclusively for my own purposes. That’s why I started this post!</p>
<p>Once again, thanks to everyone for the feedback.</p>
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