<p>Bentley and Babson College, and Bennington College.</p>
<p>I heard that Lesley in Cambridge has great merit aid (they call it "discounts"). It is best known for education and counseling</p>
<p>nyc- I think Simmons in Boston is pretty diverse (women college). I know one person there and she was very happy with her aid package.</p>
<p>MLEVINE07 -- Is there anything in particular that your friends don't like about Salve Regina? Is there something about the school that all of your friends don't like or do each of them have different reasons? I do see that the retention rate between freshman and sophomore year is 80% and the 6-year graduation rate is 59%, which is not great but there are many schools that are worse.</p>
<p>Foolishpleasure, it is a myth that mount holyoke women are less academic than smith women. In fact, I noticed that Moho women seem to spend more time studying and doing academic things, whereas Smith women were more into being social. This being an extreme generalization, of course, as both are top liberal arts colleges.</p>
<p>To the OP: I third marlboro college. </p>
<p>I think that the comment on club midd being a "party school" is not quite right, but not THAT off. I know people who have transferred because, due to the isolation, drinking is a big thing there.</p>
<p>Academically, I'd go with St Anselm over Salve Regina. And if you're looking at schools in this category, I'd also consider Merrimack College in No. Andover (about a half hour north of Boston). </p>
<p>If your D is willing to go a little further south, Drew University in NJ is doing some interesting things, and is fairly generous with merit aid.</p>
<p>Wells. Wells Wells Wells Wells Wells Wells Wells.</p>
<p>OOS Tuition $16,500, and gives merit aid. I don't know how their bio department is, but it's worth researching.</p>
<p>Salve is mostly rich kids from Newport. All the kids wear super-preppy clothes (popped collar polos, clothes from the most expensive brands like Ralph Lauren) and they spend money like its nothing. My friend don't like that if you don't have a $200 a week allowence, you can't afford to be social.</p>
<p>Wells College is in Aurora, NY. Not New England.</p>
<p>NYC,</p>
<p>From Wheaton's website Class of 2011 Profile: "21 percent of the class identifies as Asian, Black, Cape Verdean, Hispanic, American Indian, Pacific Islander or Multiracial."</p>
<p>What is Cape Verdean, do you think?</p>
<p>Not really for Bio, but have a friend whose son is very happy at Bentley (for business).</p>
<p>"Salve is mostly rich kids from Newport"</p>
<p>How? Ninety percent of the students are from out-of-state.</p>
<p>"My friend don't like that if you don't have a $200 a week allowence, you can't afford to be social."</p>
<p>Huh? Three-quarters of the students receive aid.</p>
<p>"Club Midd is about how wonderful the facilities are, like you are on vacation."</p>
<p>Yup! Where else do students have the option of having their laundry done for them? ;)</p>
<p>dke, Cape Verdean is Portugese.
There are a lot of Cape Verdeans in southern New England.</p>
<p>DKE - Cape Verdean is a population of black Portugese - multi-racial in the eyes of some.</p>
<p>Southeastern MA has a large population of Cape Verdean's</p>
<p>Cape Verde is an island nation off the western coast of Africa. It won its independence from Portugal in 1975. So Cape Verdeans speak Portuguese, but they are not black Portuguese, or any kind of Portuguese. They are Africans.
There are large Cape Verdean communities in Providence and in New Bedford, Mass.</p>
<p>Cape Verdeans go back to the times of the Portugese sailors, who sailed everywhere inlcuding to the seacoast harbors on Cape Cod and New Bedford, MA, so many racial groups intermingled. Did they go to Africa to recruit sailors? That part I can't remember. Anyway, lots of movement under colonial seafaring Portugal.</p>
<p>cross-posted with Tea-Time...Many thanks for sorting that out. I used to live on Cape Cod with Cape Verdean neighbors.</p>
<p>My apologies - my Cape Verdean friends have described themselves as above - in a simple explaination - thank you for correcting me.</p>
<p>They certainly make great tasting food tho LOL</p>
<p>JeepMom, and thank you for fixing up my "Roger Williams" in PRovidence, RI.
I must have been thinking of Roger Penn Warrren? I need help. Also "recruiting" sailors from Africa in the 1600's was also a pretty ridiculous verb for me to use. We're trying here..</p>
<p>Southern New Hampshire (near Manchester, Nashua...) is very interesting. On the one hand, it's where Thoreau and Emerson hung out; but more recently is the far-flung suburbs of people working around Route 495 and Route 128 north of Boston in the technical industries, some sort of mini-Silicon valley, right? Since NH doesn't have state income or sales tax (the only state to have neither one! -- Live Free or Die), some Massachusetts people began moving over the NH line, even though they work in Massachusetts, starting in the l970's so the farmlands suburbanized very rapidly. Quick, unplanned growth. </p>
<p>My brothers live a bit further north in Concord, NH which is the state capitol. They never have unemployment, fill up their properties with tenants readily, and are fiercely independent (old New England) coupled with the values of the transplant (FDR liberals). Recent state and local elections reflect a lot of change from the old rural Yankee ways. It's interesting. Sure it's cold, but they really love it there. My parents and brothers moved to NH from Maryland in l973 and have seen a great deal of change since then in that state. There are few black residents but there's also no
hatred developed, either. Their independence mitigates against judging anyone by a group paintbrush, either positively or negatively. Everybody can prove him or herself.
That's something for black students to understand. If it's a sea of white faces, it's not necessarily a sea of hostile people either.</p>