Shameless plug for a school rarely mentioned here: Sweet Briar College of Virginia

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<p>Sweet Briar, is of now, the only college we've gotten around to visiting and is one that my D is now definitely planning on using as a safe school (and one she wouldn't be too unhappy attending if it came down to that).</p>

<p>The campus is absolutely gorgeous and was one of the main things my d liked about it. The girls we meet were nice and spoke highly of the school. D's worried it might be clique-sh though. The dorms were fairly nice (given that there dorm rooms). Overall, our family was impressed with school.</p>

<p>They are well known for their Study Abroad program, especially in Spain and I believe it's France. Also for their equestrian which gets a lot of publicity at least around where we live in VA. We were not as impressed with the engineering department (which is just really getting up off the ground).</p>

<p>I'm not much familiar with the reputation of a "finishing school", it wasn't mentioned on the tour we took nor have I heard it in the time we've lived in VA... but given the nature of the time it was founded, I can't say it really surprises me. They seem to have overcome it pretty it well.</p>

<p>The colors are indeed still pink and green, unless they've changed it in the past few weeks.</p>

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<p>and I wonder if they're still "tipping cows" for entertainment?</p>

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<p>You know, I've heard about the legend of cow-tipping at SO many rural schools that it makes me wonder if it might not have actually been a fad for a period of time, like streaking in the 70s. I wonder when that period might have been, and when was the last time that someone actually pushed a poor, sleeping cow over. I doubt that the girls at SBC would have done it---do you think?</p>

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<p>Driver,
I love post #17. (However, you forgot to mention the incesssant ranting about PhD production rates.) Somehow that also weaves its way in to many many threads!</p>

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<p>A good friend of mine was Sweetbrier class of '80, and her stories of "tipping cows" were the first of that sort of thing that I'd ever heard of. I thought she was kidding when she first started to talk about it, but she swore that that's what they did there.</p>