<p>Drexel (along with Northeastern and Cincinnati) emphasizes co-op jobs.</p>
<p>[How</a> Co-op Works | Drexel University](<a href=“Your Co-op Experience”>Your Co-op Experience)</p>
<p>Note that many other schools have optional co-op programs, though these are sometimes only formalized for engineering students. Even without a formalized co-op program, at many schools, you can take a semester off to work and return later.</p>
<p>If co-op jobs do not interest you, Drexel would not be a good choice.</p>
<p>My biggest worry about that is that co-ops would lead to a disjointed campus and a lack of a sense of college community,</p>
<p>Here is what I will call my almost final list. I tried to rank them, but it is difficult, as I have not seen any of the state schools, Tulane, or F&M and only kind of saw Miami.</p>
<p>Richmond
Vanderbilt
Penn
Tulane
Davidson
Alabama
Oklahoma
South Carolina
Miami
Bucknell
Franklin & Marshall (or possibly Rhodes instead)</p>
<p>Also, does anyone know if Indiana offers NMF money? My counselor recommended it. How isolated is Baylor and how religious is it (i.e. would it be good for someone who is Conservative, but not religious)?</p>
<p>Those are good schools, OP. </p>
<p>Indiana offers $1K/yr for four years for NMFs:</p>
<p>[National</a> Scholar Program Scholarships: Office of Scholarships: Indiana University Bloomington](<a href=“Future Scholars: Office of Scholarships: Indiana University Bloomington”>Future Scholars: Office of Scholarships: Indiana University Bloomington) </p>
<p>As for Baylor, go to the Baylor page if no one here responds. But the best way to find out is boots on the ground.</p>
<p>@jkeil911</p>
<p>There is no reason to add IU for a $1K scholarship. My family can easily pay $60K a year, although it does not really want to. I would be better off going somewhere like Richmond, Vandy, or Penn for full price or going to Bama, OU, or USC for nothing (Bama and OU are even offering to pay me in the form of a significant stipend).</p>
<p>You asked a question, OP, and I answered it because I myself could not remember what it was between Indiana and the NMF and wanted to research it. I wasn’t arguing for the inclusion of Indiana on your list because you said you wanted warmer schools. </p>
<p>I’m glad to learn you have so many options. Are you all done with your applications or are there one or two left?</p>
<p>I still need to do part of Bucknell and F&M or Rhodes. IU is not out for weather reasons (the average winter temperature is the same as it is in Philly), but there is no reason to add it.</p>
<p>For some reason, I applied to 6 colleges tonight, some of which I had barely considered before. I now have 16, which will probably make my college counselor upset.</p>
<p>My List (that may very well be final):</p>
<p>Tier 1: Vanderbilt, Richmond, Penn (Duke was here)
Tier 2: Tulane, Davidson, Alabama, Oklahoma, South Carolina
Tier 3: Miami, Bucknell, Franklin & Marshall
Tier 4: Rhodes, Baylor, Drexel, Kentucky</p>
<p>I wish that I had applied to Rice, Wake Forest, and Virginia, but I thought of them in January, after their deadlines.</p>
<p>I wound up applying to somewhere in every state of the South except for MS, AR, and GA.</p>
<p>You have a little bit of everything here, including Drexel and Kentucky. I hope you hear from some of these before april 1 so that you can visit some and start the process of eliminating some or finding the right one. Good luck.</p>
<p>I visited Drexel and F&M today. I wasn’t really expecting to like Drexel, but I was pleasantly surprised. I don’t mind the co-op program because I can do mine abroad. They have a lot of resources and a great program in international business, but the BIG negative is the lack of a true campus. I didn’t really like F&M. It was not really that I hated it so much, as it was that there was nothing that I liked about it. I just could not really envision myself there.</p>
<p>I’m glad to hear you’re out there visiting these place, SF. I can’t get my D out of the house. Might be April before she visits any colleges, that is, after she’s been accepted and seen the FA. What are Drexel’s sports teams like these days? is there still a Big Five in a legal sense? does the Palestra still rock? Have you talked to any current students or alums from your hs?</p>
<p>OK, I was just admitted to Alabama via a phone call, so at least I have one official acceptance so far. Apart from OU and UK, I probably won’t hear about anything else until March, but it is nice to have an acceptance (with a guaranteed full scholarship) to go along with the ED rejection from Duke.</p>
<p>so you got the Academic Elite?</p>
<p>@jkeil911</p>
<p>Now called Top Scholars- admission to the honors college is automatic for NMFs.</p>
<p>Also, I was just accepted to Baylor. The decisions are starting to roll in.</p>
<p>congratulations, SF! This is good news, indeed. Baylor’s a fine school, and I’m convinced the UAlabama program is one of the, if not the, best elite honors program. I could not find ref to Top Scholars on the UA website, but I see the NMF award brings upto 5 years tuition, an iPad, a year of board, and I forget what else. Nice! I know Baylor better as a nursing and medical school, so if you want could you tell me about their business or intl business program?</p>
<p>@jkeil911</p>
<p>Baylor is fairly low on my list right now (I am a little worried about the religious aspect). Baylor has a decent program in international business and offers a full tuition to NMFs. Alabama’s award also includes a stipend of $16,000, paid over time and for different purposes. Baylor was just a safety school and seems to have delivered on that. On paper, though, I like Alabama much better than Baylor. I am visiting Tulane in two weeks and Alabama two weeks after that. Hopefully, they will be productive visits.</p>
<p>I would like to hear what you think of each since D is accepted at Tulane and we thought about Bama.</p>
<p>Please do report on your visits!
If you’re worried about the religious aspect, then Baylor would be a poor fit.</p>
<p>They keep coming in. Accepted to Oklahoma and Kentucky, joining Alabama and Baylor. I don’t expect any more until March.</p>
<p>I did a little research on Baylor, and I’m hearing that Baylor has mandatory chapel and religion classes and first permitted dancing 20 years ago. I didn’t look any further.</p>