<p>Okay so i want to go to a semi-small/medium college. real hippie-like, but intelligent. really chill. A beautiful location - like the mountains where you can camp and hike. Low out of state tuition. low tuition in general. Liberal arts preferably. no religious-affiliation. Coed. Not a big football, typical party college, but fun. pot smokers - but not serious drugs.
ITS MY IDEAL. HELP</p>
<p>Low out of state tuition. low tuition in general.</p>
<p>What do you consider “low tuition”? How much will your parents pay?</p>
<p>Pitzer college… except that its a private college with a high tuition…</p>
<p>^^^</p>
<p>That’s why we need to find out how much the parents will pay. :)</p>
<p>Do you know what your EFC is?</p>
<p>(Expected Family Contribution)</p>
<p>Take a look at University of North Carolina-Asheville and SUNY-New Paltz–total out of state costs for each school is approximately $24,000. Another school to consider is Warren Wilson–total out-of-state costs approximately $31,000.</p>
<p>Reed <– Super hardcore academics but otherwise fits your criteria
Malboro <– Outdoorsy, in the mountains of Vermont</p>
<p>Both expensive, sorry.</p>
<p>Beloit <– IDK about mountains, but liberal arts w/ good financial aid</p>
<p>Other hippyish schools: Vassar, Wesleyan… See Princeton Review rankings –> [Test</a> Prep: GMAT, GRE, LSAT, MCAT, SAT, ACT, and More](<a href=“College Search | Find Colleges | The Princeton Review”>College Search | Find Colleges | The Princeton Review)</p>
<p>Or PR rankings in general: [College</a> Rankings](<a href=“Best Colleges 2024 | College Ranking List | The Princeton Review”>Best Colleges 2024 | College Ranking List | The Princeton Review)</p>
<p>You should read this book: [Amazon.com:</a> Colleges That Change Lives: 40 Schools That Will Change the Way You Think About Colleges (9780143037361): Loren Pope: Books](<a href=“http://www.amazon.com/Colleges-That-Change-Lives-Schools/dp/0143037366]Amazon.com:”>http://www.amazon.com/Colleges-That-Change-Lives-Schools/dp/0143037366)</p>
<p>Look at Colorado-Boulder, Colorado School of Mines, and other Colorado colleges. And if academic prestige isn’t that important, Northern Arizona University.</p>
<p>Adding on to what chsowlflax17 said, your post reminded me of pretty much the entire state of Colorado. So definitely UC-Boulder, maybe UC-Denver.</p>
<p>I’d say Oberlin fits the bill except for the cost. You need to check out the financial aid situation. Otherwise, you need to look at LACs where you are in the top 10% of the applicants so you qualify for merit aid.</p>
<p>Ashtopia…</p>
<p>We really need more info than what you’ve provided.</p>
<p>What is your home state?</p>
<p>What are your stats?</p>
<p>How much will your parents pay?</p>
<p>What is your EFC? If you don’t know, use this… [FinAid</a> | Calculators | Expected Family Contribution (EFC) and Financial Aid](<a href=“http://www.finaid.org/calculators/finaidestimate.phtml]FinAid”>http://www.finaid.org/calculators/finaidestimate.phtml)</p>
<p>Some of the above suggestions won’t work if your parents won’t pay. OOS publics (such as the Colorado schools) don’t give aid to OOS students. Also, some suggestions won’t work if you don’t have strong stats.</p>
<p>You are absolutely describing SUNY New Paltz to a tee.</p>
<p>some schools that meet most of your requirements save low tuition (Bard, Oberlin, Vassar, Wesleyan) have excellent financial aid programs, and might be worth checking out despite the high sticker price.</p>
<p>ash, do you think you would not be awarded financial aid?</p>
<p>UC Santa Cruz if you are in state</p>
<p>St Lawrence university (NY state) is in a beautiful location. I hear they give good aid.</p>
<p>[St</a>. Lawrence University](<a href=“http://www.stlawu.edu/]St”>http://www.stlawu.edu/)</p>
<p>I second midatlmom’s suggestion of UNC Asheville. I can’t imagine a better fit, nor a more beautiful area.</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.unca.edu/[/url]”>http://www.unca.edu/</a></p>
<p><a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Ridge_Mountains[/url]”>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Ridge_Mountains</a></p>
<p>The cost of attendance is somewhere between $22K and $27K (depending on housing) and like the other UNC system schools, both financial and merit aid are available to OOS students.</p>
<p>*ash, do you think you would not be awarded financial aid? *</p>
<p>Am I the only one that hates those words…“awarded financial aid”. If it’s not free money, I don’t think it’s an awarding of anything. Getting awarded the right to take out loans is not an “award” in my mind.</p>
<p>Yes, the OP might have an EFC low enough for free money, but since it looks like the OP has a budget of some sort, I doubt the EFC is that low.</p>
<p>And…considering that many of the suggestions have been OOS publics, they don’t give FA to OOS students. OOS students going to OOS publics can only get minimal fed aid and fed loans and/or merit scholarships.</p>
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<p>seems to describe Brown University pretty well. Tuition is expensive, but they give great financial aid. It’s definitely worth looking at! Good luck!</p>
<p>Hendrix College (AR) sounds like a match. It’s in/near the Ozarks and has a beautiful campus. The Fiske Guide to College names it one of the three most liberal colleges in the Southeast, as well as one of the nation’s “best buys”. It has a Methodist affiliation, but you will notice ABSOLUTELY NO EVIDENCE of this.</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.hendrix.edu/[/url]”>http://www.hendrix.edu/</a></p>
<p><a href=“http://www.ctcl.org/colleges/hendrix[/url]”>http://www.ctcl.org/colleges/hendrix</a></p>
<p>^
Brown’s location is hardly beautiful. Providence is a fairly nice city, and Brown’s campus is not the ugliest I’ve seen (though its libraries are), but neither is beautiful.</p>