<p>Our daughter is strongly considering auditioning at Lee University as a music major. I just wanted to get some thoughts regarding the University as a whole, campus life, their music program and anything else that might be important.</p>
<p>Thanks so much to everyone who responds!</p>
<p>I visited Lee with my DD, and she was seriously considering Lee til they changed their test requirements for Free Tuition. (DD had 31 ACT, they bumped up to requiring 32 just as she was applying.)</p>
<p>We were looking for a solid, evangelical christian school, and found that at Lee. Friends’ daughter attended and graduated from Lee and their family was sold on the Lee culture. I’ve heard that the music program is great, but my daughter is a science geek, so no personal knowledge. I know they have listed several christian music artists as alumni.</p>
<p>I would strongly consider Lee for younger son or strongly recommend to other family and friends. I found it to be conservative, but not legalistic. Common sense rules for safety, but not outlandish rules that could keep students from learning to be independent thinkers and responsible adults.</p>
<p>They are not the same denomination as our family, but seemed to concentrate on teaching the major doctrines of the bible and not forcing denomination traditions.</p>
<p>We heard from our Lee student contact of great fun on campus, great friendships formed, and strong academics. (She was pre-med.)</p>
<p>Visit the campus, it is beautiful, small enough to walk around, but with 4000 students you can surely find a set of friends to connect with.</p>
<p>Best of luck to you and your daughter on finding a college with the right fit!</p>
<p>One thing that seems disappointing is that their scholarships are only for students from “approved” high schools. That seems to tell me that private homeschoolers need not apply. If anyone knows differently, I’d be interested to hear about it.</p>
<p>Confess to knowing little of real substance beyond … seem to take seriously faith exposure and development for students, nice location, know some really great kids who go/went, nice size, spectacular new chapel (NOT MANY places committing $$ to worshiping God!). Need to find out more about this place, it seems.</p>
<p>P.S. Still, it’s got a major problem! CLEVELAND??? ;)</p>
<p>My dd wanted to attend Lee, and she is a homeschooler graduating from an accredited homeschool program. My impression (read “I can’t remember any details”) is that the scholarships at Lee are available to all homeschoolers as well. Lee is on many of the “homeschool friendly” lists on the internet. I would strongly urge you to contact the school directly and ask details of the scholarship eligibility for homeschoolers.</p>
<p>Lee changed the Free Tuition scholarship requirement from 31 ACT to 32 ACT, and my daughter had to drop Lee from her options. (It is their money, and I don’t begrudge them changing the rules of the game. Really, any school that is willing to give away money for GPA/Test Scores is a good thing that we have to be thankful for!)</p>
<p>Yes, Cleveland is a tiny town, but it is only a 20 minute drive to Chattanooga. Chattanooga is a great size town that has everything you need plus lots of fun and scenic stuff too.</p>
<p>As per CLEVELAND … I was joking. 
Any town in Tennessee is ok by me!</p>
<p>Yes, Whistle Pig, I figured you were joking…and you are right, Cleveland is one of those places you can blink as you pass it on the interstate and miss it completely. I attended college in the Chattanooga area, and didn’t find much cause for traveling to Cleveland. (Can’t tell you how many hundreds of times I have driven past Cleveland on that interstate!)</p>
<p>lol … no I was joking about Cleveland! OHIO!!! The mistake by the lake? Home of the hopeless Brownies and the helpless Indians? Sorry… ;)</p>
<p>powercropper,</p>
<p>If my son shows interest, we’ll definitely contact them! 
Here in California, private homeschoolers fall under the private school law. I think homeschool students can bring in plenty of outside validation without belonging to an accredited homeschool since, here in California, that most often means government charter schools with government strings attached.</p>
<p>My oldest did private homeschooling (with a lot of community college and other stuff) all the way through and is now a freshman at MIT. I would hope that Lee would be willing to accept the same kind of transcripts I used for my oldest-my homeschool transcripts and community college transcripts.</p>
<p>Sbjdorlo, good luck to you and your son! I’ve gotten one child into college, and will probably get my other child started on the college search even earlier. My daughter and I checked out several colleges in the southeast, and all of them were very homeschool friendly. (These were not top tier schools, but a variety of public/private, christian and non-christian schools.)</p>
<p>Alumnus of Lee. Religion at Lee is forced and mandated. Unless you’re a devoted follower of the school’s denomination, it’s a struggle. Academic quality is suspect except for a few departments. Music is certainly world-class, though. Education is solid, and a couple of the humanities programs (political science, history) are great. Theology is strong as well. My major’s professors were quite awful actually, except for maybe two professors. Most of them earned tenure years ago and frankly didn’t seem to give a s**t. I went on to grad school at an Ivy, so obviously Lee isn’t that bad, but I’d choose wisely.</p>
<p>Homeschoolers are very welcome. I had the same question about the “approved high schools”. Your home prepared transcript and the ACT scores to prove their proficiency are sufficient. My son got the Centennial scholarship with full tuition, so it was a no-brainer for us. </p>
<p>leeu2upenn, I am sorry that you did not have a good experience. How long since you were there? When we visited, I got the impression that they were very open to other denominations and try not to push the Church of God doctrine. I even worried a bit that their student life rules to be a bit lax from what I experienced 20 years ago.</p>
<p>my friend got her degree from Lee College. Yes, it’s more known for online schooling but for some, it works for there schedule. My friend went back to college after two children and now has her degree. Works for some. Don’t count it out just yet. </p>