Southern LAC Appreciation Thread

[HotCocoa]

How about Hollins and Meredith? Any comments/experiences with those two?

[Marsian]

Meredith is a well-respected LAC for women. It has a lovely, green campus and is crossed by a city greenway going to the NC Art Museum. Meredith is very close to NC State University and has an engineering dual degree program with State: Meredith College : Engineering :

Meredith is a Baptist institution, associated with the moderate Cooperative Baptist Fellowship. Although students are fairly socially conservative (very little drinking, for example), it is not at all a fundamentalist school and is a welcoming place for women of different religious beliefs; there are Jewish and Muslim student organizations on campus. The following is from the college website:

Meredith College seeks to maintain an environment that is supportive of all faiths and ideals, and which fosters personal integrity, intellectual freedom and academic excellence.

Meredith's Baptist heritage brings a tradition of religious freedom with respect for different belief systems and of personal freedom of the individual to be responsible in matters of faith. In shaping the religious environment at Meredith, the College seeks to support the freedom of each student to choose her own faith, and also seeks to foster an environment in which these different religious perspectives are supportive and respectful of the resulting diversity.

Meredith welcomes those religious traditions that share this appreciation of diversity, affirms the freedom of the individual, and supports the College experience. Meredith College offers opportunities for spiritual growth to its students as an integral part of the life of the campus.

[HotCocoa]

It sounds great! I was just wondering if anyone on this forum had any personal/first-hand experiences to share! I'd love to hear about them.

[JustaGuy]

1. 1,300 students in a town of 18,000
2. Within driving distance of Lexington, Louisville, and Cincinnati
3. U.S. News top-50 national liberal arts college
4. One of the least expensive of the top-50 LAC's
5. 85 percent of students study abroad at least once by graduation.
6. The Centre Commitment: All students who meet the College's academic and social expectations are guaranteed an internship, study abroad, and graduation in four concurrent years, or the college will provide up to an additional year tuition free.
7. More than 98% of students graduate in four years.
8. 25% of students complete double majors; also offers self-designed majors
9. Will match selected state-based scholarships (including Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, South Carolina, and Tennessee)