<p>I'm from upstate New York, pretty much 5 hours from any ocean beach, and I would absolutely love to go to college somewhere where I can be either right on the ocean or 10-15 minutes away from it. However, my parents have placed a nix on me looking at colleges in California (big bummer, Pepperdine and Pomona look perfect). The Gulf of Mexico is also out, so that leaves the East Coast, preferably north of Georgia. I don't really care if the beach is warm or cold, I just want a beach-however, I don't really fancy going north of Massachusetts.
Anything you can give me I'll appreciate :) Thanks!</p>
<p>hmmm: wat are your grades like? I know several schools close to beaches but are pretty selective.</p>
<p>UCSB: has a beach on campus!
UMiami: 10 minutes away from some of the most visited beaches in America. Atlantic Ocean and Carribean Ocean.
Florida State: about an hour from the beaches though its the Gulf of Mexico. Still worth looking.
UCLA
USC
Tulane</p>
<p>North of Georgia there are few Nationally ranked schools located on or near a beach...</p>
<p>You should talk to your parents again about CA, especially for Pomona/Pepperdine</p>
<p>UNC-W: our school is your vacation</p>
<p>reason I didnt mention UNCW is because its not really that strong academically. </p>
<p>the strong schools that are near a beach:
- Tulane
- UMiami
- FSU (hour away)
- Florida (2 hours away)
- UCSB
- UCLA
- USC
- Pepperdine
- Pomona
- UC Berk</p>
<p>not sure of your academic background, but check out some of the ones near me:</p>
<p>Christopher Newport University (used to be part of W&M)
Old Dominion University
College of William and Mary
Hampton University (historically black?)</p>
<p>all of the above are near the VA Beach area (pretty nice area at that, IMHO)</p>
<p>My overall high school average is a 97, my class rank is 2/160, and I have a 2120 SAT.
As for talking to my parents about California, they wouldn't let my brother apply to Stanford last year, so it would be completely unfair to let me apply to schools there.
Thanks for the input :)</p>
<p>UC Berkeley
UCLA
UCSD
UCSB
UCI
UC Santa Cruz</p>
<p>These schools are all within 10 mins of the beach, and UCSD and UCSB actually have beaches as part of their campus. Santa Barbaras campus extends into the beach and San Diego is litterely on the cliff above the beach with Scripps Institute of oceanography extending onto the beach below. USC is not that far from the beach either, but farther than the schools mentioned. Pomona is quite a way from the beach, probably about 45 mins away. UCSD UCLA and UC Berkeley are very tough to get into however, even in state. Out of state, all the the UC's mentioned will be difficult to gain admissions too, outside of possibly UC Santa Cruz, which still isnt easy oos. Your stats however should give you a great shot at any of these schools, anywhere from UC Berkeley on down. Deffiantly talk to your parents, being in the San Francisco Bay area, Los Angeles, San Diego area is deffiantly worth trying for.</p>
<p>pomona, and the claremont colleges, are about 30 minutes from Newport/Huntington.</p>
<p>Why are your parents so against California?
If they think youll be wild and crazy with a bunch of crazy liberals... Convnce them that Pepperdine and USD (NOT UCSD), are religious therefore nothing to crazy ;)</p>
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<a href="http://www.ncf.edu%5B/url%5D">www.ncf.edu</a></p>
<p>Pepperdine has one of the most beautiful campuses in the US and it is literally a 100 feet from the beach. If you have Christian views or can just stand them, Pepperdine is a amazing school and college ******* has fairly high grades for how good guys and girls look.</p>
<p>New College (in Sarasota, FL) is right on the water.</p>
<p>Yale.
Brown.
Connecticut College.
Salve Regina (prob not enough academically, but the New England beach doens't get more spectacular !)
Roger Williams.
Fairfield U.</p>
<p>There's some Connecticut/Rhode Island ideas with varying academic settings.</p>
<p>Most schools in Jersey aren't too far from the beach.</p>
<p>Princeton-1 hour
Rutgers-30/45 minutes</p>
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<p>If you want to go to Daytona Beach. But St. Augustine is a 45 minute drive from Gainesville.</p>
<p>I think my parents just don't want me to go so far away and have to pay for flights and stuff...it's understandable.</p>
<p>^Yeah, but if a California school is your dream school, it's not fair for tem to limit you. What if you got a job and paid for your own flights?</p>
<p>Well I think college should be YOUR decision not theirs and if you want to apply to California schools just do it and don't tell them! Maybe once you get accepted and perhaps take a visit out to California to see the schools they might change their minds. As for California schools I would definitely look at Pepperdine or any of the UC's, although I know its a lot tougher to get into the UC's if your OOS but you could still give it a shot. Also a college thats right by the beach that other people haven't mentioned is Flagler College in St. Augustine, FL.</p>
<p>Endicott College, Beverly, Mass., is a beautiful college campus right on the water. Can be quite chilly in the winter though,but still very pretty.</p>
<p>This is another option, Northwestern is right on Lake Michigan, which I know isn't an ocean, but as far a beach-wise, it basically is...you can't see across I promise (it amazes me that people think you can see across them)</p>