<p>I've heard very nice things about Mercer, though most particularly about their law school. I heard the environment there is really collegial.</p>
<p>And yes, I graduated from a liberal arts college in the South! Mine was single-sex, I assume you're not looking in that direction.</p>
<p>Adding to people's lists: Guilford, Elon, Roanoke, Lynchburg, College of Charleston.... there are MANY LACs in the South.</p>
<p>Carolyn and kriket both mentioned Rollins. I'll add another voice for it. US News ranks it Number 2 among Southern Universities with Masters Degree programs. Not many people have heard of it, but take the time to check it out.</p>
<p>Berry College in Rome, Georgia is a real gem and worth considering. I spent two semesters there in 2001/2002 and would have continued there had I not had to move to Virginia for personal reasons. It is consistently ranked #1 or #2 "comprehensive college" in the South in the U.S. News Best College list (whatever that means).
My favorite things about Berry were:
1. Small class sizes: my classes, even Intro 101 classes, ranged from 6 to 28 students the entire time I was there
2. All courses were taught by PhD bearing professors, many of whom were willing to spend HOURS outside of class time for academic or personal discussions.
3. What I saw as top notch academics with a liberal arts/core curriculum requirement
4. The campus is beautiful, with 29,000 acres of forest and all sorts of hiking and biking and horseback riding opportunities.</p>
<p>Good Luck.</p>
<p>Maryland is below the Mason Dixon =) St. John's college is there, and also there is New College of Florida if you're into that sort of thing.</p>
<p>Cangel, I looked over Mercer's site once upon a time as a possibility for my daughter back when she thought she wouldn't want cold weather. It looked like a nice, solid school from what I could see. Decent offerings in business and engineering as I recall. Didn't really dig into it deeply as my daughter soon decided that she didn't want the South.</p>
<p>Similar to Rollins, but a little more selective, is Stetson, which I have heard/read very good things about. </p>
<p>And, a real bargain is Flagler, also in Florida --- unbelievably low cost for a private school: $8,000 a YEAR for tuition and about $5,000 for room/board. Good quality education but the catch is they offer only limited majors: business, journalism, graphic design, sports management,
theater, psychology and a few liberal arts majors. But, can't beat that price, and apparently, they are also good with financial aid if you need it!</p>
<p>Here's one for this thread that ought to get people excited. Emory owns a small college named Oxford ,near enough to Atlanta that allows you to start small and automatically move to the big Emory campus after two years. We toured and the professors seemed first rate,the merit aid is good and the stats are considerably ...uhhhh...different from Emory stats. The campus itself was VERY old, but I at first thought it was a perfect way to get D to consider Emory with less trepidation. Didn't work that way, but....it would be fantasic for a kid with good but not stellar stats.Check it out, I'm telling you somebody will find it a perfect way into a very prestigious,very fine University.</p>
<p>Cur, I hate to mention Oxford. The first time I did here on the board, I mentioned that its admissions stats were a bit lower than Emory. The next day my mail box was filled with hundreds of emails from Oxford students complaining that I was dissing their school. :) </p>
<p>I do think it is a nice value for kids who want both the experience of a small liberal arts environment and a large university. Thanks to the students who emailed me, I did see some interesting stats that suggested that the Oxford students actually graduate from Emory at higher rates than those that started at Emory College.</p>
<p>I've edited per the riptide warning you gave. We heard from the tour guide that not only do they graduate a higher %,but also that because of the close bonds made in year one and two, they tend to excel in campus government, and other campus -wide organizations. I'll just call it a great admissions value-how is that?</p>
<p>Alot of the schools mentionned are pretty southern in their culture, I think.....Rollins has many students from "up north" and some from the midwest.....</p>
<p>LIberty in Lynchburg</p>
<p>FYI-just to clarify-the term "liberal arts" is about the breadth of educational studies and has no political connection!</p>
<p>Cur, one other thing deserves mention about OXford College of Emory - you can apply to BOTH Oxford and Emory at the same time. Thus, if you have your heart on graduating from Emory and don't get in directly, you have a good back up. :)</p>
<p>Someone was telling me about a small LAC in Florida that had many special supportive programs for frosh, including coming one month early for study skills and other orientation classes. She was going to ask the name - another friend's son was attending, now a sophomore. The son had been an indifferent student, and the family had seriously considered not investing in college for this child right at graduation, but sent him to this school and he had flourished. My friend thought it was in St. Augustine ?Flagler?. ANyone know if FLagler or Rollins has special support for frosh?</p>
<p>Flagler is in St. Augustine but I couldn't find anything about a program like that in their freshmen orientation materials.</p>
<p>Your friend may have been thinking of Eckerd College, which is in St. Petersburg, and does have a three week "freshmen class" to help freshmen get adjusted to college. It's during the actual semester, however, no over the summer. </p>
<p>Could also be St. Leo's college which has a lot of support programs for incoming freshmen.</p>
<p>Birmingham Southern</p>