<p>anyone have details on these schools? looking for my jr daughter, lives in FL. 1200, 3.7, good ec's, track and cross country. needs smaller school, where kids are on campus for 2-3 yrs before moving off. interest in creative writing. or other suggestions in the NC, SC area. thanks</p>
<p>I attended Furman in Greenville, SC which attracts a lot of Florida, Atlanta and Charlotte students. While there I noticed that some Floridian parents liked renting in the nearby mountains of Asheville, NC and the small towns near Brevard, Tuxedo etc. Your daughter might be competitive for Furman which has excellent sports and strong academics. Furman is in a city that is truly booming now..Greenville is revitalized and has many Europeans living there building tires and BMWs. UNC Asheville has a very good writing program (see Furman graduate Tommy Hays, author) and the town has an artsy vibe (many adult artists live and produce there, many wealthy retirees live there and support arts) that is more free-spirited than the vibes at the other colleges you listed. It would be wise to visit and to have a good idea of what kind of atmosphere your daughter would be comfortable with. Elon is a pretty mainstream college in NC she may want to look at as well where I know a soccer playing girl and a boy on the golf team.</p>
<p>I agree with Furman but Furman is becoming increasingly very selective. I'd certainly give Wofford a look. We visited and D liked it. UNC-Asheville looked great on paper until you get to students living on/off campus. Not so hot for OOS. Another suggestion for the right student would be Oxford at Emory. Very, very appealing although the Oxford campus is truly old.</p>
<p>Son has a friend playing football at Wofford--he seems to like it very much--though is a bio major so can't speak to the writing interest. </p>
<p>UNCA is a very artsy type school, depending on your d. she may or may not feel like she fits in. When I took S#1 to look there, he felt that he didn't fit in with student body at all--students looked like more what I remembered from the 70's (so I though it looked "normal").</p>
<p>I second the suggestion of looking at both Furman and Elon. I've heard great things about Furman and believe that most students live on campus all 4 years. S#1 went to Elon, had a great experience--small classes, students stay in college housing for 2 yrs. minimum and there are apts. complexes nearby for off campus in later years if desired.</p>
<p>My trip reports for Winthrop and Presbyterian can be found under the "Master List" for visits <a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=151327%5B/url%5D">http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=151327</a></p>
<p>Generally speaking, my son liked Wintrhop more than Presby. But, Winthrop is more of an urban campus -- if you can really call Rock Hill, SC urban. I have a relative who is a professor at Wintrhop and speaks very enthusiastically about it -- if my son hadn't been accepted to his ED school, this family member would have continued to give my son the hard sell for Winthrop and might well have been successful. The stats for your daughter would put her in the running for a merit award -- and merit awards above $500 come with a waiver of the out of state fee. Not a bad deal at all. </p>
<p>Presby just didn't click with my son. Felt the area was somewhat rundown. </p>
<p>For other schools, I also have to put a plug in for Elon -- please note that it is becoming much more difficult to get accepted RD rather than ED. Furman is fantastic, but would probably be a reach unless the SAT score goes up a little. </p>
<p>Otherwise, well, let's see: In SC there would also be College of Charleston, Charleston Southern. CofC in particular has been the subject of some very positive posts. NC has UNC-W and UNC-C (both a little larger than you may be looking at), Salem College, Meredith, St. Andrews Presbyterian, Catawba, Western Carolina, Guilford College</p>
<p>There have actually been a few threads in the past. </p>
<p><a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=144414%5B/url%5D">http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=144414</a>
<a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=34043%5B/url%5D">http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=34043</a></p>
<p>It is true that Furman academics are tough once admitted but it is a supportive environment with teachers totally committed to the art of teaching. I think Furman does a great job of bringing good students along to growing into much more serious and well-prepared students as they age up. There are a lot of Floridians at Furman. Furman does an outstanding production of future PhDs that outpaces several more selective LAC's, so the atmosphere is pre professional and many are going to graduate schools. Some students with your daughter's stats from Florida will be waitlisted but she has a good shot if she feels the Furman social and academic scene is right for her and she chooses to target Furman. It is a much smaller school than say Elon or Winthrop and the social atmosphere needs to be a fit for her to be happy anywhere..so visit!</p>
<p>Also in NC...UNC-Greensboro, UNC-Pembroke (Pembroke is very rural but close to I-95) , Queens University ( in Charlotte), Barton College (in Wilson NC), Mars Hill College (in beautiful NC mountain setting, not far from Asheville, your D would definitely get merit money and they have a good cross country team, always wins conference).
Other very small schools in the NC mountains..Lees-McRae College, Montreat College, Brevard College.
All the others I can think of were mentioned by lderochi. Will mention that Meredith and Salem are all female schools. Meredith has plenty of opportunity for male interaction though as it is literally on the same street as NC State U. One of my best friends attended Meredith back in the old days and loved it. </p>
<p>Neighbor's D went to Winthrop and had a good experience. She was an IB grad, got a full tutition scolarship, majored in Scientific Communications, spent a semester abroad and was admitted to grad. program at Emerson/Tufts and Miami (Ohio). The majority of students at Winthrop are from S.C. Many may go home on weekends although neighbor's D(from NC) did not come home that often and always stayed busy on weekends. Winthrop always has a great basketball team that gets lots of student support (if your D is into sports/school spirit thing) </p>
<p>OK, nobody yell at me....Not many from our area go to UNC-Asheville because all the kids think it's a "hippie school". I have never been on the campus, just heresay. I do know one girl from our h.s went there 2 years ago and loves it but she is an art major. So if you D is artsy, she may love it too. Asheville is a cool city with a vibrant downtown. </p>
<p>Faline2 has told you all about Furman. Another neighbor's D with stats similiar to your D went to Furman and did just fine. She was however a quadruple legacy (if there is a such thing) as both parents and both grandparents (on father's side) were Furman grads. Neighbor says she isn't sure if D would have gotten in without the big legacy push but she did fine once she got there.</p>
<p>Also in South Carolina...Coastal Carolina Univ. </p>
<p>Not in SC or NC but in GA, Georgia College and State Univ. is small and considered to be the public liberal arts school of the University of Georgia system.</p>
<p>the area around brevard=very rural very touristy..if u like the outdoors..i went and did stuff in that national park near there(i actually camped there) i took a shower in a laundrymat there...haha..no joke im not kidding i will tell u that they keep there laundry showers very clean down in brevard.. so if ur shower aint workin' go there</p>
<p>I personally got more of a "hippie school" feel at App State than at UNC Asheville, but I guess it's all relative. </p>
<p>For creative writing, UNCW is a good bet. Solid school with good social scene, 60:40 female/male ratio. I have a friend there that did track, XC, and marching band in high school; she absolutely loves it. </p>
<p>Hollins, Sweet Briar, and Randolph Macon (went co-ed) in VA are a few others to check out.</p>
<p>Everyone I know who went to Wilmington loved it, however I'm not sure that one gets much individual attention there and on campus housing is limited.</p>
<p>Montreat is very small, but have heard that it is a nurturing environment. It's not far from Asheville for social things--but Black Mountain, where Montreat is located doesn't have too much to offer--except of course the beauty of the mountains and the great outdoors.</p>