Help With TN/KY Schools

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<p>We have decided to squeeze in one more long distance trip this summer. My son really wants to see some schools that were on our list from the TN and KY area. We'd never have the time to visit once school starts.</p>

<p>The plan is to fly into Nashville and then visit Belmont on day 1.
Day 2 we would visit Centre and then Transylvania.
Day 3 we would visit Bellarmine and then fly home out of Louisville this day or the next.</p>

<p>I know very little about these schools and this region of the country. Any other suggestions?</p>

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<p>Rhodes College (Memphis TN area) is another small liberal arts college that might interest you.</p>

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<p>Thanks, don’t know why I didn’t think of Rhodes!!</p>

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<p>Rhodes looks fabulous on paper, but it is too far for us to contemplate a trip. If you go, warriorboy, please post how you liked it. I’ve been following your PA thread with interest.</p>

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<p>I would also consider Sewanee.</p>

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<p>Hendrix College is in Conway, Arkansas, but is only about ~2.5 hours from Rhodes. Small, liberal arts, good reputation. I’ll second Centre and Sewanee, too.</p>

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<p>What about Vanderbilt? The Belmont campus & Vanderbilt campus are about 2 blocks apart.</p>

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<p>Thanks for the additional schools. Sewanee was on our original list. I was told that it has a very strong Greek culture. Anyone know if that is true? Hendrix is on my son’s list also but I’m trying to keep our trip to a few days. It was the outlier when I put the locations into mapquest.</p>

<p>Vanderbilt is too much of a reach, but thanks for the suggestion.</p>

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<p>Don’t know if you’re interested in state schools. If you are, Western Kentucky University will be very close by. It’s in Bowling Green KY, 65 miles north of Nashville.
I have two frends who went to WKU and loved it.</p>

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<p>Bellarmine is in a very nice area (I lived within walking distance of it for years).</p>

<p>Centre is a nice, though mostly just regionally known, liberal arts college. My sister’s boyfriend goes there. It gives very lucrative financial aid to in-state National Merit Semifinalists, so it draws in a lot of bright in-state kids who like the idea of a LAC experience. The environment is small-town.</p>

<p>Other Tennessee possibilities: Sewanee, Austin Peay. If you’re interested in big state schools at all, a lot more possibilities open up in both states.</p>

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<p>Sewanee does have a big Greek culture (but in a different way from a large state school) and a big drinking scene. I am a big Sewanee fan, although neither of my kids would consider it due to small size and remoteness. It is for someone who doesn’t mind being isolated on the top of a small mountain with lots of outdoorsy things to do. It is the kind of place adults think is heaven- a place to go for a retreat and to enjoy nature. It can feel a little small after a couple of years to a young person, though.</p>

<p>Agree with suggestion of WKU. A lot of kids from here go there and absolutely love it and it has fun sports, a beautiful campus and a Culver’s in the town. What more could you want?</p>

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<p>Daughter want to Lipscomb last year and loved it. About a mile or two from Belmont and fairly similar; Christian school, small campus but in a city which offers a number of “things” to help fill freetime. One advantage is that it is quite a few dollars cheaper than Belmont. They also offer reasonable merit money if ACT/SAT scores meet their requirements. Last years cutoff started as low as a 24 on the ACT if I remember correctly.</p>

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<p>Not sure if warriorboy knows about Culver’s or not, but it is worth the stop if you do visit.</p>

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<p>Re: Lipscomb. Their new Provost is the former Provost from Pepperdine and they are putting alot of money into facilities and faculty. I don’t think that’s reflected in any rankings yet.</p>

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<p>I was just checking out Lipscomb’s website. Does anyone know how religious this school is?</p>

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<p>It is quite religious. It is Church of Christ. It’s not Liberty or Wheaton, but almost everyone I know who went there is pretty serious about Church of Christ.</p>

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<p>Lipscomb would not be a good match then.</p>

<p>I’ve been checking flights and visit schedules and have a tentative plan. Just looking at it is making me rethink the visit. </p>

<p>The schedule would be -
8/18 - fly in
8/19 10 - Centre
2 - Bellarmine (fly to Little Rock)
8/20 10 - Hendrix
1 - Rhodes
8/21 10 - Belmont
(pm - maybe Sewanee)
8/22 - fly out</p>

<p>I wonder how important the visits really are???</p>

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<p>If I’m reading your schedule correctly, you’re trying to visit Hendrix at 10 and Rhodes at 1 on the same day. The drive between the two will take at least three hours, and your visit at each school will take a couple of hours. Perhaps you could do self-guided tours at the two schools, which would allow you to start earlier and end later. Then just do meetings with admissions counselors. Try to build in some time to see the city or town, too. You’re looking at a variety of locations, from fairly rural to urban.</p>

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<p>Sewanee is a good 90 minutes plus out of Nashville.</p>

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<p>Lipscomb has chapel requirements; not sure what it’s like now, but there used to be mandatory daily chapel. One of the reasons why it’s not on my DD’s list ;)</p>