<p>We visited Burlington (Champlain) with DS and just loved the school and the area! However, if Champlain doesn't work out, can anyone suggest other schools we can take a closer look at other than UVM and St. Michaels? DS looking in the 2000-6000 undergrad size and interested in Communications/Interactive Media/Business. Need generous merit...scores are 1300/2040 and 30 ACT. Any ideas?? Thanks!!</p>
<p>Does it need to be Vermont because of in-state financial reasons? Are you open to adjoining areas, such as New Hampshire, upstate New York or Maine? Public or private, or both?</p>
<p>Hello hop, No it does not need to be in Vermont and are absolutely open to good programs (public or private) that offer generous merit in adjoining areas. Thank you for any suggestions!</p>
<p>I’ve heard great things about Marlboro College in VT. It is expensive but a large % get some kind of aid.</p>
<p>If you want other colleges similar to Champlain, there’s Bennington College (a very small LAC in Bennington), Middlebury College (in Middlebury), and Norwich Univesity (in Northfield). Norwich is a military college, but there is a very small traditional student body there as well. There is also of course the University of Vermont (also in Burlington).</p>
<p>New Hampshire of course has Darmouth.</p>
<p>Maine has Bates College (in Lewiston), Bowdoin (in Brunswick), and Colby (in Waterville).</p>
<p>Although SUNY is the public university system for the State of New York, SUNY can be pretty affordable for OOS students. Upstate NY SUNY locations are Plattsburgh (5,567 undergrads) and Potsdam (3,902 undergrads). There’s also Hamilton College (in Clinton), Skidmore College (in Saratoga Springs), Utica College (in Utica), and the bigger Syracuse (which is actually in central New York so a little farther away from Vermont). Even further into the state is the University of Rochester. And if you don’t mind that far into the Finger Lakes regio, there’s Hobart and William Smith Colleges (in Geneva) and Wells College (in Aurora).</p>
<p>And of course Massachusetts has a variety - the Five Colleges in the Northampton area (Amherst, Smith, Mount Holyoke and Hampshire - the fifth is UMass-Amherst, but that’s a large public university); College of the Holy Cross, Assumption College, and and Clark University in Worcester; Curry College in Milton; and Williams in Williamstown. If she doesn’t mind being in the Boston metropolitan area, there are a wealth of small liberal arts colleges and smaller universities there - Babson College (a business-focused college), Bentley University, Brandeis, Cambridge College, Emerson College, Emmanuel College, Lasell College, Lesley University, Newbury College, Simmons, Stonehill, Tufts (a smaller university), Wellesley, Wheaton, and Wheelock.</p>
<p>You could also look at Ithaca College-Park School of Communication. Your son’s test scores will certainly merit some scholarship money at Ithaca.</p>
<p>Thank you! Lots of great suggestions…I will get onto those websites! We visited and loved Ithaca, just don’t know how much merit they will provide.<br>
Anyone familiar with SUNY Plattsburgh?<br>
Do you think scores would quality Dartmouth?!
Any others?</p>