<p>D#1 transferred to Hampshire from a large, top university. She felt the university was too structured and was not challenging enough despite its reputation. She loves, loves, loves Hampshire. She has finished 1 year there and already regrets not going there originally. She is very self directed and designing her own major, being responsible for it, works great for her. She also likes the written evals from professors. She also takes courses within the consortium for regular grades and does very well. She says she can’t possibly take all the courses that she wants to in 3 years. My nephew also attended HC and loved it. She has friends at Goucher and Guilford who also love it. However as others posted, there are numerous smaller LAC’s out there that are wonderful. What I like is that she is allowed to be creative with her programming, is forced to take responsibility for her program (there is no structured coursework laid out for her) and she who was already pretty mature has matured even more. Classes are small and there is a lot of interaction with the profs. Nephew has done very well for himself since graduating. D#2 would hate it. She is going to a smallish university in a large city. Very different kids. 
Which is what makes it fun!</p>