<p>Antioch College, just restarting has traditionally been a hippy school.</p>
<p>Hampshire, reed, wesleyan, vassar</p>
<p>If you really want small, try Marlboro (though I haven’t a clue if their science department is really good. You’ll have to check that out for yourself.</p>
<p>Take a look at Grinnell: It has a significant hippie contingent, outstanding biology dept, and a center for prairie study and conservation. Other selling points: A massive endowment that results in state-of-the-art facilities, the smallest class sizes among the top LACs, great merit aid, lots of funding for student research and internships, excellent food, and a student body that is quirky, unpretentious, hard-working and very liberal.</p>
<p>Hampshire is the best choice for hippie school. And there are other colleges like Sarah Lawrence, Bennington, Bard which still have preserved the hippie environment. Whitman and Reed are also very “hippie” plus, they are located in very beautiful area!</p>
<p>I second the College of the Atlantic. Don’t know much about it, but I think it’s definitely worth your time to research.</p>
<p>I second Evergreen State in Washington. A true hippie haven.</p>
<p>“Hippie” school - are you so certain at age 17 that this is your lifelong identity? You’re hopefully going to college in part to be exposed to a wide variety of people, cultures and lifestyles. Over the course of four years, you’re likely to change in many ways (if you don’t, demand a refund). I have to question identifying a tiny subset of American higher education as “hippie schools” and limiting your search to only those. I wouldn’t have a concern over that being one consideration among several in making the final selection, but your best college option may not be - in fact, is statistically very unlikely to be - what we’d classify as a hippie school.</p>
<p>What is a “hippy school”?</p>
<p>Oberlin and Vassar</p>
<p>OP, did you finish your applications yet?</p>
<p>@rani I’d say left inclined “unconventional” colleges with a lot of smoking(marijuana)…</p>
<p>Prescott College in Arizona. Rolling admissions for the procrastinating hippy.</p>
<p>Ithaca, NY, home to both Cornell and Ithaca College, is both crunchy and gorges!</p>
<p>UNC Asheville
Guilford College
Goucher</p>
<p>Oberlin. [Overview</a> - Oberlin College](<a href=“http://new.oberlin.edu/arts-and-sciences/departments/environment/]Overview”>http://new.oberlin.edu/arts-and-sciences/departments/environment/)</p>
<p>New College of Florida. If hippie is what you want, NCF is the epitome of the word. I’m not sure about their sciences overall, but they are located on the gulf coast and have a very strong marine biology program.</p>