What are the best 50 schools you have likely NEVER heard of?

<p>OMG some schools which ur guys list that i want to apply</p>

<p>Polytechnic University - Brooklyn, NY</p>

<p>I posted this before, but I believe I have to post it again since it is relevant to this thread's subject.</p>

<p>Grove City College isn't as famous as the Ivy's but should be more well known. It isn't a fly by night school having been in existence since 1876 ( one of the colleges in the country to first allow women to enroll ). </p>

<p>It is : </p>

<p>1) Ranked among the top 10 conservative colleges in the country by the Young America's Foundation . </p>

<p>2) Ranked #4 in 2006 and #2 in 2007 in a Study by the University of Connecticut in terms of Senior Civic Literacy , outclashing such celebrated schools as Cornell, Yale, Stanford and Brown. </p>

<p>3) Is one of the most competitive colleges in the country.</p>

<p>4) Barron’s Educational Series has called Grove City College a “Best Buy” in recognition of the College’s quality education and affordable price. </p>

<p>5) Kaplan Publishing’s most recent National Survey of High School Guidance Counselors listed Grove City College as a top school in three areas: schools that are hidden treasures; schools that offer the best value for the tuition dollar; and schools with popular drug-free and alcohol-free activities for students. The survey named 59 institutions from among thousands of schools in the “Best Value” category by weighing their cost against the quality of education. </p>

<p>6) Grove City has been chosen as one of 50 “All-American Colleges” by the Intercollegiate Studies Institute. ISI highly recommends the College as a school with programs tied to the “core values of the American founding and the vibrant intellectual traditions of the West.” </p>

<p>7) According to The Princeton Review, Grove City College is one of the nation’s best value undergraduate institutions. The New York-based education services company features Grove City in the 2007 edition of “America’s Best Value Colleges.” The guide profiles 150 colleges with excellent academics and relatively low costs. It includes 103 public and 47 private colleges in 40 states. The Princeton Review chose the colleges for the book based on data the company obtained from administrators at 646 colleges and from its surveys of students attending them. </p>

<p>8) U.S. News & World Report's "America's Best Colleges" Grove City College is listed among the Best Liberal Arts Colleges in the country ( 5 years in a row ). </p>

<p>9) Princeton Review ranks Grove City College as among the Top 20 in Career/job Placement Services based on satisfaction of students who graduate from the school. </p>

<p>10) To top it all, IT REFUSES ANY FEDERAL AID ( in fact, fought a case in the 1980's all the way to the Supreme Court on this ). </p>

<p>11) Every student who gets accepted is given a free laptop and printer. </p>

<p>12) It has gorgeous, well maintained 150 acre campus with 2,500 students. </p>

<p>13) Has an outstanding faculty dedicated to teaching the students that does not have the tenure system. </p>

<p>14) Has a tuition fee (includes board and lodging ) of just $18,000 a year ( which does not include need-based aid and merit scholarship ). </p>

<p>15) Still is a very athletic school with lots of athletic programs ( team is known as the Wolverines ). </p>

<p>16) One of the safest colleges in the country with crime non-existent. </p>

<p>17) 85% of Freshmen continue into their Sophomore year and 80% graduate within 5 years. Their pre-law and pre-med schools have a 100% acceptance tate into some of the country's best graduate schools. 91% of their college graduates find good jobs within 60 months of graduation.</p>

<p>The main drawback to many people is this -- it's a religious school that is affiliated with the Presbyterian Church and : </p>

<p>A) Separates men and women dorms. </p>

<p>B) Frowns on pre-marital sex, binge drinking and carousing ( listed among the top 10 stone cold sober schools in the country). So, if you want a party school, this school is NOT IT.</p>

<p>C) Requires students to attend chapel 16 times a semester. </p>

<p>D) Greek life is a little too "safe and boring" for most people's taste. </p>

<p>E) Has a core curriculum. Grades are not inflated, so if you were to study in that school, you better make sure you're made of solid academic stuff because you don't get high grades unless you demonstrate you know your subject matter ( which of course makes it hard to get high grades -- not good on your transcript if you want to float through college ). </p>

<p>F) Prefers to accept students who go through a PERSONAL face to face interview to make sure you fit into their system. </p>

<p>G) Only has an undergraduate ( B.S. and B.A. ) program. </p>

<p>H) A little too non-diversified in terms of its student racial mix ( what do you expect in a school that does not discriminate based on race ? ). Roughly 95% of the student body is white. If you're hankering for diversity, you'd hate the school. </p>

<p>I've said enough... suffice it to say that Grove City is just ONE of the many colleges out there that provides a solid college education without the fluff courses with tuition fees that are relatively affordable and YET, does not accept Federal money.</p>

<p>Proof positive that we don't need Washington meddling to guarantee students a good college education. </p>

<p>Unfortunately, people still <em>insist</em> that you have to go to one of the big name universities ( no matter how expensive ) to be worth your weight. The tuition fees and the excessive debt you must incur is beginning to prove otherwise.</p>

<p>wow i see people mentioning Eastern Washington U on this thread...</p>

<p>I'm from Washington and definitely don't hear good things about this school. Its generally the last resort for kids who don't get into the other state schools.</p>

<p>BantamBoy, I've also heard "Oh how nice! ...Wh-Where is that?" many times! I would think that more people would know Mount Holyoke, but I guess not. I know Trinity, if it makes you feel better! My brother was accepted there.</p>

<p>I vote for St. Olaf's. Yes, there is another college in Northfield Minnesota! It is amazingly good for choir, vocal music.</p>

<p>When I saw Shun say no one had heard of Case Western, I thought, hmm, Case is much more well known than St. Olaf's, but then I checked recent postings on St. Olaf's and Case Western in the college confidential alphabetical lists. Hmm, 7 posts under St. Olaf's and 11 under Case Western -both rarely discussed by collegeconfidential folks.</p>

<p>Also, for nursing: College of St. Scholastica. Okay for some of their other programs, but for nursing? amazingly good.</p>

<p>Eugene Lang (New School - NYC), Ringling School of Art & Design (Sarasota) - stellar computer animation program, Evergreen State College (Wash) - no grades - professor evaluations, St John's College (MD & NM) - Great Books program</p>

<p>definitely Case Western. More often than not I get blank stares when I tell people I go to CWRU.</p>

<p>Humboldt State University</p>

<p>Art, Psychology, Social Work, Native American Studies, and the sciences (Biology, Marine Biology, Forestry, Oceanography, Fisheries, Wildlife, Natural Resources Interpretation and Planning, Natural Resources, Soils, Botany, Zoology, Physics, Geology, Environmental Resources Engineering, Rangeland Resource Science, Watershed Management, Chemistry, and Nursing [impacted])</p>

<p>They have their own research vessel specifically for undergrad research, a marine lab, an observatory, the Schatz energy lab, a living laboratory in the form of a redwood forest adjacent to the campus, a demonstration forest, small class sizes where professors know your name, over 85% of all classes taught be a professor, not a grad-student.</p>

<p>One of the top outdoor schools (Outdoor Magazine), a school with a conscience (Princeton Review), and a top-vegan/vegetarian school (can't remember which magazine did this one) for both the cafeteria and the surrounding community.</p>

<p>Case, St. Olaf's, Humboldt State! Hard to believe no one has heard of them - - and they are discussed on CC, albeit less ofteh than a number of other schs. The fact that Case and St. Olaf's eve appear on the CC alphabet listing means they've made the cut in terms of general interest.</p>

<p>Pretty much every sch is disussed on CC at some time - - check out the thread (2pgs) re: New Mex Tech.</p>

<p>I guess people haven't heard of St. Olaf when they add the apostrophe and 's' at the end that is not part of the college's official name. </p>

<p><a href="http://stolaf.edu/%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://stolaf.edu/&lt;/a> </p>

<p>St. Olaf College is well known in Minnesota, of course.</p>

<p>Colorado school of mines.</p>

<p>Another one: Simon's Rock of Bard which offers a college education to high school juniors. It's on it's own island off the coast of Maine.</p>

<p>Oh, and Marymount in NYC - upper east side with easy admissions</p>

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Simon's Rock of Bard which offers a college education to high school juniors. It's on it's own island off the coast of Maine.

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<p>Bard College at Simon's Rock (the college's new name) is in Great Barrington, Massachusetts. </p>

<p><a href="http://simons-rock.edu/%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://simons-rock.edu/&lt;/a> </p>

<p><a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&geocode=&q=Great+Barrington,+MA&ie=UTF8&ll=42.331139,-73.363953&spn=0.365481,0.731964&z=10&iwloc=addr&om=0%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&geocode=&q=Great+Barrington,+MA&ie=UTF8&ll=42.331139,-73.363953&spn=0.365481,0.731964&z=10&iwloc=addr&om=0&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>By the way, has this thread mentioned more than fifty different colleges by now?</p>

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<h2>By the way, has this thread mentioned more than fifty different colleges by now?</h2>

<p>We have over 3,500 colleges and universities in the USA, we've really only just began.</p>

<p>In Canada, where there are only large universities and virtually no small four-year colleges, liberal arts colleges are relatively unknown, even the more famous ones.</p>

<p>Tell a Canadian that you went to Swarthmore, Colgate, Harvey Mudd, Reed, or Oberlin, and they will have no idea where these places are.</p>

<p>The University of Rochester is a school that is largely overlooked, it seems to me.</p>

<p>"Cornell? How nice."</p>

<p>"No, Grinnell. A small liberal arts college in Iowa."</p>

<p>"Oh...Never heard of it. But I'm sure it's nice too."</p>

<p>People on the coasts just aren't familiar with mid-western schools, so we'll just have to get used to this.</p>