Colleges with best sense of community and tradition

College Search & Selection
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<p>I really like the idea of going to a small college with a huge sense of tight-knit community, school spirit and pride, and age-old traditions that are still upheld to this day.</p>

<p>Which colleges do you think would make that list?</p>

<p>So far, I'd put a lot of women's colleges (Sweet Briar, Smith, Wellesley, Mount Holyoke, and Hollins) on it. Sewanee is the only co-ed I've researched so far that seems to fit, but I'm sure there are plenty more.</p>

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<p>the difference between wellsley and sewanee is like night and day.</p>

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<p>True, but I’m just asking about schools (any kind) that have these things in common: tight-knit community, school spirit, and age-old traditions. Both Wellesley and Sewanee have all three.</p>

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<p>If Smith, Holyoke and W on your list, why not Bryn Mawr? Lantern Night? Step sing? May Day? Beautiful campus (looks like a slice of Princeton) a 20 minute train from Philly, and Amtrak connections up and down the eastern seaboard. Academic cooperation with Haverford which is 1 mile away, to supplement its own departments – longstanding cooperation which has allowed departments to develop their own specialties and strengths.</p>

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<p>In the midwest…</p>

<p>St Olaf
Carleton
Knox
Notre Dame</p>

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<p>Most LACs…</p>

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<p>Oh, yes, Bryn Mawr is certainly one of them! I knew I was forgetting one…</p>

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<p>If the small school part isn’t as important, UVa is extremely into traditions, honor code, etc. Beautiful campus, close-ish to DC, great academics, etc.</p>