Christian Schools?

DevPatel144 · 03-18-2012, 08:08 PM

I'm a high school junior with a 3.75 unweighted GPA (4.3 weighted), and I take all honors or AP classes. I scored a 31 on the ACT (I will take it again in April, anticipating a 32 or so), and approximately a 2080-2170 on the SAT (I just took it last week). I have a solid amount of EC's, I guess (i.e., Model UN, school newspaper, marching band all four years, Students for Peace and Justice, church choir, member of church youth group, flute player for eight years, and took a course at UChicago last summer). My mom is absolutely insane about Baylor, but honestly, it's just WAY too big for me! I'm more of a reserved person, and I'm interested more in schools with a LAC feel. Could anyone recommend some good Christian colleges out there? Thanks!

Creekland · 03-19-2012, 06:05 AM

There are tons. Besides size and type, what are you looking for? What major or general field? How conservative (religious)? City? Suburb? Rural? Where are you willing/able to go (state - region)? How much financial assistance will you need?

vandygrad87 · 03-19-2012, 10:33 AM

I'd be inclined to lead you toward Wheaton (IL) or Grove City (PA). Both are academically rigorous so you would be well challenged.

DevPatel144 · 03-19-2012, 05:26 PM

Thanks a lot! I live in the Chicagoland area, so I'm attempting to get away from the unpredictable Chicago weather XP! Does anyone have any views about Pepperdine?/How religious is it? I've been looking at Emory because I know it's Methodist, but it's not really Christian in practice, so to speak.

DevPatel144 · 03-19-2012, 09:34 PM

Any further input?

BuckeyeatHeart · 03-20-2012, 12:15 PM

There are some great Christian Universities in southern CA if that is an area you are leaning towards -- Biola University and Azusa Pacific University are the most popular among our church's high school graduates (quite the rivalry!). My DD1 attends Vanguard University which is much smaller in size. I would suggest checking out these 3 to see if any fit your qualifications.

Creekland · 03-20-2012, 05:06 PM

My oldest loves Covenant College on/in Lookout Mountain, GA. It's definitely small - roughly 1000 students - but he feels that is one of their assets. Stats-wise they aren't too bad and you'd get some merit aid as my guy also had a 31 on his ACT and got some merit aid from it.

mommamocha · 03-20-2012, 05:17 PM

Pepperdine is a wonderful university! Great locale, great weather and quite an involved faith life student body. We know several students there and our daughter was considering Pepperdine.

You might want to dive a little deeper and find out if you want a university that has ties to a church, a bible institute or a school that has had ties to a church in the past but does not currently but the student body still reflects this history, in values and church practices.

Some schools to consider:

APU (CA)
Point Loma (CA)
Westmont (CA)
Wheaton (IL)

Good luck in your search!

distancelearner · 04-13-2012, 04:35 PM

I did my undergrad at Pepperdine. Terrific school and it is hard to beat the Malibu, CA weather. I would recommend that you also look at Liberty University. Great Christian tradition and you can do online classes as part of your curriculum.

byanilla · 04-29-2012, 12:56 PM

Pepperdine is probably one of the best Christian universities out there, js.

informative · 05-11-2012, 04:16 PM

BC and Holy Cross are liberal arts oriented and rank very highly, although they are very competitive to get into.

AboveTheLaw · 05-12-2012, 04:20 AM

If you want LAC, I would highly recommend Wheaton (although i'm biased). If you are a Protestant (which I am assuming) and want to look into Catholic schools, you might want to make sure they have a active Protestant fellowship you can get plugged into. I know bigger ones like ND has them. I'm not sure about smaller ones like Holy Cross.

Journier · 05-12-2012, 11:44 AM

Check out Asbury University in Kentucky. Great campus, caring faculty, close to Lexington, really nice traditions. Depends on what you are looking for.

IBWarrior · 05-12-2012, 11:50 AM

Check out Patrick Henry College in Virginia

Whistle Pig · 05-14-2012, 02:54 PM

OP will ultimately decide upon his/her definition of "Christian college" which has been discussed often. In identifying such, I'd not ID BC nor Holy Cross as such. Denominational perhaps, Catholic for sure. Both fine academic institutions. And btw, this has nothing to do with Cathoicism being determined as being Christian or otherwise. It's about educating folks about generally accepted terminology in the higher ed community. Ignorance is bliss. And it can be eliminated by education. Stupidity is sad and unfortunate. And its forever as Algernon proved.

No matter what some wanted to proclaim, "is" is "is."

Nor is information always informative. In either case here, opinions are free, worth every cent they cost, and sometimes not nearly true. And sometimes they are.