<p>Based on visits with my son, I would agree with above posters that F&M isn’t quirky-there are a lot of business majors, athletes, and frat boys. I found Lawrence to be very intellectual and open minded with a variety of students and Appleton is a fun small city. My son’s first choice is Wooster for the research opportunities, the school spirit, and the fact that everyone has to dig deep into their subject in order to finish the required senior project. If he could go right now, he would. I noticed that there were lots of different “types” at Wooster-preppies, nerds, jocks, Goths, music geeks, hippies,artists-everyone seemed to be comfortable being themselves which I thought was really great. The school we had visited the day before seemed to be populated by only hippies and hipsters which didn’t allow for a lot of growth, in my opinion. We also visited Beloit and found it very worthwhile but not as interesting or spirited as Lawrence and Wooster. I think a student who really loves to learn could really thrive there though. </p>