Colleges with under a 1000 students

hoedown
Mon, 12 Dec 2005 12:50:55 +0000

I went to R-MWC, just down the road from Sweet Briar.

It was smaller than my high school, and I wondered a bit about running out of things to do. My plan was to spend junior year abroad (they had a good program in England), so I’d have one year in a completely different place.

I applied and was accepted to the program in England, but I ended up NOT going because it still felt like there was so much I wanted to do right there at “home.”

I graduated not having time to take many of the classes I was still interested in. There were professors I was still dying to have a course from! I hadn’t exhausted the college catalog, the extracurriculars, or the other possiblities. And I didn’t know everyone–I didn’t even know everyone in my class (most I could put a name to, of course, but I certainly didn’t KNOW everyone).

Still, a term or year abroad–or on another campus (SBC has such exchanges) is a good fallback. I expect, however, that you’ll have plenty to keep you busy even if you’re at the small college for all four years.