<p>I've been hearing people talking about Furman, and I'd never heard of it until recently. All I know is that its Div. 1 for golf, is Baptist and is in a remote location in South Carolina? Anyone know its overall reputation? Is it a well known college outside of the South? Any help most appreciated.</p>
<p>Beautiful campus. Good in the sciences.</p>
<p>I read on US News and World REport that its fairly selective and has no religious affiliation, but a friend of mine said that its very Christian Conservative? Anybody know about that?</p>
<p>A beautiful, very well endowed class act. Both Furman and Washington & Lee are undervalued because they are below the mason-dixon line. If above, they would contest the top 10 LACs.</p>
<p>Go to the Furman forum and you can get alot of info. Furman is DIV I sports for all sports except football whch is 1AA (now known as FCS). Women's Golf is ranked #13 in the Nation for college (see Gold Digest ranking of colleges) Men's is #20. Men's soccer is very good having been ranked as high as #3 in the country. Men's and womens tennis are top notch also. Furman is not Baptist. They broke off from the Baptist convention in 1992, They are like Wake Forest. There are conseravtives at Furman but also have a liberal side. From what I've heard, everybody gets along well. The most recent senoir class president was a Muslim. As being located in a remote location, nothing could be further from the truth. Furman is 5 miles outside of Greenville SC which is a fairly large thrving city. Downtown Greenville is amazing and alive. It hosts a major indoor arena and a AA baseball team in the Bosox system. The stadium is new and is a smaller version of Fenway Park. Greenville is on I85 with easy acess to Atlanta and Charlotte. Furman is in the foothills of the Appalachain mountains and about 15mins away from beautiful scenary. The beaches are not far away. As far as academics, it has a 70% acceptance in med school and 99% acceptance into Law school. 64% of students were in top 10%. Furman is one of four schools that James Duke left his endowment to. The other 3 are Duke (named after him, before the endowmnet Duke was known as Trinity College, Davidson, and Johnson and Smith) These are the only schools that recieve money from the Duke Endowment which is worth millions if not billions.</p>
<p>In summary, Furman is a big time school worth considering and, if you do well, will definitley get you to the next level.</p>
<p>My neighbors went to Furman in the 70's. and their oldest D graduated from there a couple of years ago. They are crazy about Furman. A semester abroad during the junior year is very common. The campus has lots of traditional red brick buildings and the grounds are very pretty. I think it was chosen as one of the nation's prettiest campuses a few years ago.</p>
<p>Furman goes by a three term system that starts after Labor Day and ends at Christmas. Then they have a short winter term and then Spring Term that finishes in late May I think. I don't know what the name for it is but their classes are different than most colleges in that they don't have MWF and T/Thurs. classes. They take an average of three-four classes each Fall and Spring term that meet every day (M-F). During the short winter term , I think they just take one class.
They do have fraternities/sororities. My neighbor desribes it as preppy.
They usually have a very competitve football team in their conference (the Southern Conference which is also the conf. of Appalachian State University, two time defending div. 1-AA Football National Champs). </p>
<p>Greenville SC is a good size town with easy access to a major interstate (85) and they have an airport also.</p>
<p>By the way, Furman will switch to a conventional semester system starting in 2008. The old system was OK but school was out later and started later which is harder for summer internships and summer jobs.</p>
<p>That was prob. the only complaint my friend's D had was that all her friends left for school weeks before her and got home from school weeks ahead of her.
Not a big prob. in the whole big scheme of things but the students will probably like being on a semester schedule.</p>