<p>I'll just talk about colleges I know about:
Eugene Lang - No. It's in the city.
Evergreen State - Yes. It's a bit alternative, VERY liberal, in the outdoorsy Pacific Northwest, and pretty intellectual.
Lewis & Clark - I hear it's pretty much Reed for less smart people.
U New Hampshire - It's pretty damn cold in New Hampshire. But also outdoorsy. A maybe.
Occidental - It's in LA. Probably not.
U Puget Sound - Yeah, you'd like it. Doesn't seem like the most intellectual place though. Outdoorsy and liberal it is.
U Vermont - Again, very cold. Like UNewHmp
Whitman - You'll probably like it. Although you won't be able to go surfing.</p>
<p>lol im not trying to add MORE, im trying to subtract. </p>
<p>UNH vs. UVM? i can only pick one. leaning towards uvm for location. </p>
<p>earlham, hendrix, lawrence, willamette, bard, beloit, bennington, and u redlands are all so close to being eliminated. i just need someone to say something bad about them.</p>
<p>I know someone who goes to Hendrix and he loves it. It's small and very liberal ... not that much to do in the area, though, and I don't know how outdoorsy it is.</p>
<p>k, i just had my first day of senior year classes. lots of my classes are what i consider to be "large" +20. ive now realized how important it is to find small classes, since the difference between 15 and 25 is the difference between casual discussion and chaos. </p>
<p>so....UW madison, UNH, UVM class sizes??? please just give me any reason to eliminate them, im getting desperate!! </p>
<p>as if i needed to shoot myself in the foot any more, i recently discovered an interest in taking an intro to engineering course (definitely not a whole major, just 1 course!) however, i would be eliminating the only 3 on my list with engineering schools ^^^ !</p>
<p>actually i take that back, both hampshire and pitzers' consortiums offer that. eliminate away!</p>
<p>this is my final list if anyone is interested:</p>
<p>Colorado college
Eckerd
Hendrix
Hampshire
Kalamazoo
St. Johns college
New College of FL
Evergreen state
whitman
pitzer
lewis & clark
marlboro</p>
<p>yes....12.</p>
<p>ive written a total of 1 essay, out of a necessary 37 million. applied to 4 so far. in at hendrix with 12K/year merit. deferred at kalamazoo. havent heard anywhere else.</p>
<p>what IS your GPA?
being in the bottom 40 with a 3.9 would be different than with a 1.9</p>
<p>and, being from FL, idk how outdoorsy eckerd and new college are, and they aren't very popular places to apply where i live, but whatever floats your boat...</p>
<p>Eckerd is a unique and neat school - take your water shoes if you go - they have some pretty interesting curriculum choices and some open curriculum as well. Fun and different EC's as well.</p>
<p>And if you have a boat - take it as well :)</p>
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<p>Sorry but this made me laugh. I've never met someone who claimed to like ALL of Europe... from cold and deserted Iceland to hot and lively Madrid, from the industrial regions in central Europe to poor provinces in Russia - could you really imagine living in all those places?</p>
<p>I think your final list looks great and would not change it. Good luck. </p>
<p>Based on your comments I think you were correct to drop Bard, my son is a Sophomore transfer from Bates and likes it, but it is not very outdoorsy. The campus is huge for the 1600 students and near some great hiking across the river but I don't think the students are attracted to it for those reasons.</p>
<p>I have toured Hampshire three times and found it a bit offbeat, in a good way (to me at least) like some of your other schools. It is in a really great area but, like Bard, I think the student body is more "NY Hipsters" who happen to go to school on a big outdoor campus rather than those who are in the great outdoors by choice.</p>