<p>i'm currently a rising senior attending the stanford summer sessions and i'm having quite a hard time finding schools i'm as enthusuiastic about applying to as some of the other excited '06ers sound. i don't have any fears about how my application will look so the schools i'm asking to be pointed towards shouldn't be limited by selectivity. english and economics are the two programs i'm looking at right now. location:anywhere except south of the arizona-pennsylvania line and ridiculously snowy places. definitely looking for a school with smaller class sizes (below 20 preferably).</p>
<p>i'm checking out swarthmore, reed, the lacs, as well as considering applying to deep springs. please, anything else i should consider?</p>
<p>haha you don't want to live somewhere snowy but you dont want to live south of pennsylvania? sounds impossible to me!</p>
<p>haha but anyways, most schools that are going to have smaller class sizes and good english departments are going to be the small LAC's in the northeast (snowy!). So just keep your options open...I'm not going to recommend schools becuz im not sure about their english departments but most schools have great ones.</p>
<p>i'm one of those california kids that frolics in the good weather year-round. perhaps it's best for me to suck it up with the snow. thanks for pointing out all the liberal arts schools up-east. i was around there in april and it was cold enough to make me uncomfortable in my shorts. the record rainfall in nyc did not impress me, but then again i've been there before and the city's appeal was a bit lossed on me</p>
<p>is the academic environment at UChicago as intimidating as i've heard it is? i'm not looking for a greek campus but i'm also not too hyped about people who lock their dorm doors and act like academia is a race.</p>
<p>madmordekai, the Deep Springs prompt suggests a bit of the outdoorsy, rugged individualist, and that plus English/economics, small classes, rigorous academics + a fair amount of (non-Greek) fun leads me to suggest Williams inspite of the ridiculously snowy winters. Buy a hat. If it's any consolation, kids frolic in the snow too.</p>
<p>UChicago is challenging, but it is not cut throat in the least. Intellectualism is valued and it has a strong core curriculum, it is fun without being frivolous.</p>
<p>the Claremont colleges and such schools in the east as Williams, Swarthmore, Amherst(?) etc. seem like real great places. I've been to Swarthmore but no other liberal arts schools. I suppose I really should compromise my feelings about the weather. Thank you all for pointing out everthing above. I'll make a list or something in a while and post it</p>
<p>if anyone is still subscribed to this thread and cares (i just found it in my short list of past posts) i am going to claremont mckenna college in a few weeks. it certainly feels like a fit. i. am. psyched.</p>